Example sentences of "[noun] by the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the monastic reformers of the twelfth century frowned on the practice of placing children in monasteries , and the Cistercians forbade it , we may be sure that throughout the Middle Ages many nuns were dedicated to religion by the same procedure as they would have been dedicated to husbands — by parental fiat . |
| 2 | On April 27 , George Brizan , hitherto Finance Minister , was appointed Minster of Agriculture while retaining responsibility for Trade , Industry , Production and Energy ; Tillman Thomas became the new Finance Minster and was replaced as Minister of Works , Communications and Public Utilities by the former Agriculture Minister Phinsley St Louis . |
| 3 | Police are now eager to interview Baland 's uncle , a sixty-five year old French national and painter living in the U.S. Police enquiries began in March 1989 with the seizure of a Utrillo painting ‘ Impasse Traînée à Montmartre ’ and a drawing by the same artist ‘ La maison de Mimi Pinson ’ at Bourg-en-Bresse following charges brought against a local auctioneer , by Jean Fabris , chairman of the Association Maurice Utrillo and the man who possesses the ‘ droit moral ’ over Utrillo 's work the right in French law to defend an artist 's reputation , particularly in the courtroom . |
| 4 | Some earlier , related research by the same team is reported in Language in School & Community ( ed N Mercer ; Edward Arnold 1981 ) . |
| 5 | However , recent research by the same investigator suggests a rather large adverse effect on the demand for unskilled labour in developed countries . |
| 6 | These findings were similar to the results of an earlier retrospective study by the same research team of forty-eight families who had a child ( aged five to eight years ) admitted into residential care ( Quinton and Rutter , 1984a ; 1984b ) . |
| 7 | Jim Courier dismissed Amos Mansdorf by the same score but Michael Chang dropped a set before overwhelming Todd Woodbridge in the final set to win 6–4 , 1–6 , 6–0 . |
| 8 | My Lords , er would my Noble Friend , subjects are nevertheless best taught by those who have a sympathy for them and in the light of the fact that eighty per cent of er school pupils in the primary sector are taught , th all subjects by the same teacher . |
| 9 | The inclusion of this peculiar detail consistently throughout one picture strongly suggests that that picture is a direct copy of another man 's work ; and the Centauromachy and Amazonomachy will at least include elements from pictures by the same man . |
| 10 | In line with the announcement at the halfway stage , the 1992 dividend total is halved to 5.25p , after a final cut by the same proportion to 3.25p . |
| 11 | Since Fourier analysis shows ( see chapter 11 ) that all signals comprise certain combinations of pure sinusoidal signals , to perform as an attenuator , a circuit must reduce the amplitudes of all sinusoidal signals by the same factor irrespective of frequency and without changing their phases . |
| 12 | If the Liberals had increased their vote by the same percentage as Labour , Neil Kinnock would sleep tonight in Downing Street . |
| 13 | The chemicals company , ICI , which has 10 per cent of the world market in CFCs , undertook to end their manufacture by the same date . |
| 14 | English copies would have been available in Europe and mention of distribution in the new American Colonies has been made , so it was an internationally known work by the latter part of the eighteenth century . |
| 15 | My argument was that , as Michael Heseltine had so boldly listed Battersea Power Station in 1980 , it was illogical not to protect a much finer and more complete industrial work by the same architect . |
| 16 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 17 | The bank column is increased by £1,000 and the owners ' equity column by the same amount . |
| 18 | Canada was to reduce annual SO@2 emissions from its seven eastern provinces to 3,200,000 tonnes by the same time . |
| 19 | Canada is to reduce annual SO2 emissions from its seven eastern provinces to 3.2 million tonnes by the same time . |
| 20 | Statute and common law of constitutional significance are subject to amendment by the same process as that employed for other legislative enactments . |
| 21 | A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant . |
| 22 | Where the pope provided candidates to bishoprics , Edward was quick to scotch any papal claims to confer the temporalities by the same act of provision . |
| 23 | Apparatus known to have been used by a particular scientist , and collections of apparatus by the same maker , are particularly instructive . |
| 24 | The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) says that each individual transfer need not require a transfer document and repeated removals of the same waste by the same contractor ( multiple transfers ) may be covered under a single document for up to one year . |
| 25 | AIDS , entering the body by the same route , further attacks body immunity and leaves it prone to any passing infection . |
| 26 | For example , a specific observation about some aspect of a text ( such as its rhyme scheme ) could lead to a generalisation based on how it fits with other related observations ( the rhyme schemes of other poems by the same poet ) . |
| 27 | But although the company managed to exceed its targets by the half year stage , it was n't able to maintain such growth levels — turnover for the entire year grew only 10% to $253m . |
| 28 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 29 | Samia Saouma is exhibiting watercolours by Ross Bleckner until 27 June ; paintings by the same artist are on show at the Ghislaine Hussenot until 18 June . |
| 30 | This new residence , recently named Alexander Court by the former Principal , Sir Kenneth Alexander , is the first of a series of residential developments planned for the eastern end of the campus , beyond Airthrey Castle . |