Example sentences of "[verb] by [noun prp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This work was subcontracted by EEG to John Whitney Jr and his Digital Productions — John Whitney Sr was a pioneer of computer animation whose abstract films inspired Con Pederson and Douglas Trumbull to try slit-scan . |
| 2 | Wright and Richmond were recommended by Collinson to Bartram as being the most reliable , and were sometimes asked to convey zoological cargo ; live squirrels , red-birds and terrapins for Lord Petre or insects mounted in a cork-lined box for Dr Fothergill . |
| 3 | Ealdorman Torhtmund , a loyal servant of Aethelred , who slew Ealdred in vengeance for his lord in 799 , was warmly recommended by Alcuin to Charlemagne in 801 when he visited the Frankish court . |
| 4 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 5 | Those buffoon figures ( related by Cornford to incidents in Punch and Judy plays ) were often figures from contemporary life who are eventually driven from the stage . |
| 6 | In 1914 batteries of these weapons were lent by Austria to Germany 's right-wing armies to reduce the Belgian fortress-cities . |
| 7 | It shows Picasso 's response to World War II , ‘ The charnel house ’ of 1945 , lent by MoMA to Europe for the first time . |
| 8 | These hints had their final expression in an astonishing personal letter written by Knox to Mary on 26 October 1559 , claiming that ‘ if it be the office of a very friend to give true and faithful counsel to them whom he sees run to destruction for lack of the same , I could not be proven enemy to your Grace but rather a friend unfeigned ’ — even if moderation was never Knox 's strong suit and so , unable to keep up the quiet tone of the letter , he felt impelled to throw in a postscript : ‘ God move your heart yet in time to consider that ye fight not against man , but against the eternal God , and against his Son Jesus Christ , the only Prince of the kings of the earth . ’ |
| 9 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 10 | Conversely , Gloucester inherited the services of the Tunstalls of Thurland ( Lancs. ) from Warwick , although the first formal record of a fee is apparently that granted by Gloucester to Thomas Tunstall in autumn 1471 . |
| 11 | An amendment to the republic 's constitution , adopted on Feb. 20 , took back into Slovene control all sovereign rights previously transferred by Slovenia to Yugoslavia . |
| 12 | This group had been dated by Oswald to c . |
| 13 | Only the patience of FIFA last night prevented an indefinite worldwide ban being imposed on him at midnight because of transfer monies still owed by Sevilla to Napoli . |
| 14 | This problem involves two issues : ( i ) whether there is a contract between Pickwick and Podder , resulting in a debt owed by Pickwick to Podder ; ( ii ) whether Podder has validly assigned the debt to Mrs Jingle . |
| 15 | Although ‘ service ’ was in one sense effected in Illinois the purpose of , and assumption behind , it was that the documents would be transmitted by VWoA to Germany for the attention of VWAG . |
| 16 | This was a reference to the Iranian demand for the return of a $1,000 million loan made by Iran to France in 1974 [ see p. 26755 ] . |
| 17 | Between these two extremes , Cahiers 59 , 60 of Charpentier 's autograph Meslanges ( thought by Hitchcock to date from the early 1690s ) include several works which employ both 3/2 and 3/2 in void notation ( for example , Notus in Judaea , H206 , Domine Deus salutis meae , H207 , and the Messe … pour M. Mauroy , H6 ) ( see illus.1 ) . |
| 18 | An error on the monthly computer tape supplied by Penguin to Whitaker Bibliographic Services has led to over 2,000 Penguin titles being wrongly designated as out of print . |
| 19 | Franz Dornseiff — a German scholar who proved his courage and independence in difficult times — tried hard to persuade us that it was in fact authentic Greek poetry of the sixth century B.C. He also tried to show that a long description of the Jews attributed by Photius to Hecataeus of Miletus was really composed by this late sixth-century writer , and not ( as is generally admitted ) by the younger Hecataeus of Abdera who lived after Alexander . |
| 20 | The ultimate compliment was paid Ferguson before the interval when Buchwald was told by Vogts to man-mark the awkward 21-year-old in case his threat should turn into an act of aggression that brought an equaliser . |
| 21 | The same insincere welcome is used by Macbeth to Macduff : ‘ The labour we delight in physics pain' ( II.iii.48f. ) , and at the news of Duncan 's murder Lady Macbeth is given one of the most brilliant pieces of hypocrisy Shakespeare ever invented : ‘ Woe , alas ! /What , in our house ? ’ |
| 22 | The drive for expansion received its greatest impetus from the support given to the movement by Lord Rothermere , who was persuaded by Mussolini to back Mosley . |
| 23 | Wings was subsequently sold by Rank to Horizon at about the same time as Horizon was itself purchased more or less outright by Bass for £90 million in May 1987 . |
| 24 | In February 1990 , a firm called Garston Amhurst , a tied agent of Target , the life company sold by TSB to Equity & Law in January at a substantial loss , was shut down by the Securities and Investments Board after £2 million of investors ' money went missing . |
| 25 | Tin had been sold by Shearson to Maclaine for more than £9,000 a tonne but prices nosedived after the International Tin Council market support pact collapsed . |
| 26 | Market leader Ever Ready has been sold by Hanson to Ralston Purina , which markets the brand in the US . |
| 27 | It had already been shown by Lewis to Dent , publisher of Dymer , who rejected it . |
| 28 | In this instance , however , Irvine believed , " the case is quite inverted " , for " the King himself is charged with all the Faults of Government , and … punished for them " , and his ministers " not only suffered to escape Punishment , but … highly preferr 'd and rewarded " — a reference , in particular , to the favour shown by William to James 's former chief advisor , the second Earl of Sunderland . |
| 29 | That number , which is almost half of Hillingdon 's secondary schools , is both a testament to the support shown by Hillingdon to GM status and a rebuke to those local education authorities that remain hostile to the policy . |
| 30 | The Pakistan team lines up ‘ like some firing-squad ’ after the umpires decided that a ‘ catch ’ offered by Gower to Inzamam ( left ) off Waqar Younis had not carried to the fielder at second slip |