Example sentences of "[noun prp] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A video recording of a visit made to North Korea in mid-May by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Hans Blix , and a team of inspectors , was made public on June 3 . |
| 2 | Barclays bought Martins , and was only prevented from merging with Lloyds by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 3 | He was about to lead Sir John through the wicket gate to the priest 's house when a dark shape jumped from the shadows and grabbed Philomel by the bridle . |
| 4 | Visitors are drawn to that city on the Adriatic by the mosaics depicting the Emperor Justinian and his notorious wife , Theodora . |
| 5 | Annabel appeared too , tugging that awful Kezia by the hand . |
| 6 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 7 | FEELING sorry for poor old George ‘ Punchy ’ Walker , so brutally deprived of his role as chairman and chief exec of Brent Walker by the rest of the board ? |
| 8 | The old man 's gaunt face broke into a smile and his thin blue-veined hands clasped Corbett by the arms . |
| 9 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 10 | The captain took Corbett by the sleeve , led him over to them and tapped one of the players on the shoulder . |
| 11 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 12 | ‘ The trophy was in the shape of a wooded scroll with a quartz clock and a brass plate inscribed with the words , ‘ Presented to Joan Rawson by the Stockport & District Concert Secretaries at the 29th Command Show 1992 . ’ |
| 13 | Müller caught Eloise by the elbow . |
| 14 | In June 1312 , however , he was captured at Scarborough and soon afterwards was murdered while in the earl of Warwick 's safe-custody : thus , no longer an embarrassment to the king , Gaveston by the circumstances of his death divided the nobles . |
| 15 | Renamed the Communist Party of Slovakia " Party of the Democratic Left in October 1990 , it had become simply the SDL by the end of the year . |
| 16 | In March , a limited edition of the Frank Wootton fine art print ‘ Adlertag , 15 August 1940 ’ was signed at RAF Biggin Hill by the artist and six Battle of Britain pilots . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 18 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 19 | Glasgow and Edinburgh cars , both dating from 1948 , seem quite at home in Fleetwood by the Parish Church during a tour in 1984 . |
| 20 | I did the walk last summer on a fine sunny afternoon , leaving Malham by the beck that runs from the village to the pretty little waterfall at Janet 's Foss . |
| 21 | At present , there is little to suggest continued occupation at Ilchester by the time of full Saxon penetration in the seventh century . |
| 22 | If one attempts to judge Mandela by the company he prefers to keep ( a reasonable test of a politician ) the mystery deepens . |
| 23 | Mr Robertson QC cited examples from UN practice , such as the eight-hour visit to Indonesia by the Attorney General of Kenya following the Dili massacre , and from other intergovernmental agencies , such as the drafting of the recent Seychelles constitution , to illustrate his point . |
| 24 | Important commodities were spices , the control of which was largely responsible for European involvement and exploration leading to the Spanish and Portuguese colonizations and ultimately to the Dutch monopoly of nutmegs and cloves in Indonesia by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The SLORC also announced on Sept. 6 that four NLD officials had been arrested in Mandalay in connection with " disturbances " in the city on Aug. 8 [ see p. 37655 for reported killing of demonstrators in Mandalay by the security forces in early August ] . |
| 26 | That same evening , their corpses — minus their shoes and socks — were found lying on the beach at Ramlet al-Baida by the Beirut station manager of British Airways . |
| 27 | After the 1988 Education Reform Act , the primary team expanded further to accommodate the additional responsibilities placed on LEAs by the Act . |
| 28 | But aside from this , and not forgetting the important duties laid on LEAs by the Education Act 1981 in relation to children with special educational needs ( discussed in Chapter 4 ) , there was little prescription . |
| 29 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 30 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |