Example sentences of "[noun pl] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 2 | Far more than a ‘ companion ’ to the Hornblower novels , clarifying and extending the historical background and arranging the events of the hero 's life in chronological order instead of in the irregular order imposed on readers by the dates of publication of the books , Parkinson 's book is related in intention , though not in style and tone , to the amiable pamphlets published from time to time summarising the relationships and activities of the fictional inhabitants of Coronation Street . |
| 3 | Maxwell and Murdoch were no doubt entrenched in their organizations by the complexities of cross-holdings and foreign-registered companies , but their personal holdings were proportionately small , particularly in comparison with their predecessors . |
| 4 | Not to mention the thousands of pounds pumped into the Tory Party funds by the likes of Rupert Murdoch 's News International . |
| 5 | A ceremony on Oct. 5 commemorating the 50th anniversary of the massacre of Jews by the Nazis at Babi Yar near Kiev was attended by Jewish , German and US delegations . |
| 6 | Two cars by the looks of it |
| 7 | Inevitably , writing for the Cornhill gave him a first experience of the restrictions imposed on authors by the readers of quality magazines , but for the time being he was happy to compromise in the interests of his career . |
| 8 | An authoritative Soviet study on the diplomacy of the developing states , prefaced by Firyubin a couple of years before his ASEAN tour , had arrived at a definition of neutralisation on the basis of declarations by the statesmen of Southeast Asia . |
| 9 | For Order 69 to apply the process must be in connection with ‘ civil or commercial proceedings in a foreign court or tribunal ’ and must have been received by the Senior Master with a written request for service from a consular or other authority in a convention country ( which term includes countries with which the United Kingdom has a relevant bilateral Convention and countries party to the Hague Convention ) or from the Foreign Secretary ( who would have been approached via diplomatic channels by the authorities of another state ) 262 . |
| 10 | Their aim was to partition the set of pictures by the shapes of the engines and wagons . |
| 11 | Whatever the signal source , the designer needs to know what restrictions are imposed on the timing of the control signals by the parameters of the drive , motor and load . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , their first single , ‘ Something New ’ , a jaunty hybrid of spacey synths , unrepentantly catchy pop melodies and funk/rap , is rapidly becoming a clubland favourite with remixes by the likes of Happy Larry ( aka Nick Harris ) and The Rapino Bros . |
| 13 | Reluctant farmers filled the winter 's potholes in with any available earth ; despite repeated demands by the justices of the peace , hardcore was rarely used . |
| 14 | Grants for the purchase of drawings were made by the MGC/V&A Purchase Grant Fund and for books by the Friends of the National Libraries . |
| 15 | I liken the recent televised steamrollering of Ms O'Connor 's merchandise to the nightly book-burning sessions by the Nazis in the '30s . |
| 16 | One additional feature of the responses to tasks exemplifying this criterion is that many pupils refer to 3-D shapes by the names of their faces , i.e. " a cube " may be referred to as " a square " , or a pyramid as a " triangle " . |
| 17 | There were three main responses by the men to this situation . |
| 18 | As the pre-gig DJ 's preference for tunes by the likes of Carter and Senseless Things attests , the Inspirals have stowed away on the bus reserved for hardworking merchants of no-nonsense , boys ' own indie-rock , and their new home seems to suit them . |
| 19 | Digital data occupy a central position in this applications field and a number of examples are given to illustrate the extent to which their development has been hampered or facilitated in various countries by the policies of the organizations with responsibility for digital data provision . |
| 20 | Eastenders by the sounds of this . |
| 21 | The lengthy section in the same report on the persecution of the Jews in Germany began by stating that what was currently taking place was the ‘ irresistible extermination of a minority ’ , comparable to the genocide against the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War but carried out in Germany against the Jews ‘ more slowly and in more planned fashion ’ , adding accurately that ‘ in reality a lawless situation has long prevailed , through which every act of force against the Jewish minority is sanctioned ’ . |
| 22 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 23 | This studied the texts by the techniques of literary and historical analysis , attempted to separate out historical material from legend or poetry , and even began to raise sensitive problems of authorship — as , for instance , whether all the first five books of the Old Testament were in fact written by Moses . |
| 24 | To note defects in the arrangements for the infirmary or the sick wards and the performance of the duties by the nurses of the sick . |
| 25 | There could be 2x + y , where x is the number both of the members appointed to a board of directors by the owners of the company , and of the trade union members ; and y the number of directors to be co-opted . |
| 26 | Sixty years of studying the swirls , the strokes and lines by the graphologists of art history |
| 27 | Rory was grateful not to get the lecture about the IRA men who had lived in foxholes in the soaking bog in the fifties , hunted out into the mountains by the B-men at the end of a long and terrible campaign , but he continued with the trains of thought . |
| 28 | Ottaviani , feeling that the authority of the Holy Office was threatened , tried to persuade the pope to forbid lectures by the Jesuits of the Biblicum — and even have Karl Rahner banned from Rome . |
| 29 | Many thousands of years of natural evolution and hybridization , helped in recent centuries by the bringing together of species from widely separate parts of the world , and in modern decades by the attentions of the human mind and hand , have produced a multitude of rose forms , shapes , colours , habits and abilities . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the watchers by the beacons above Portwrinkle and at Rame were waiting for the fleet to head inshore to Plymouth . |