Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second day continued where the first day left off : four catches by Hick to equal the record for a Test against Pakistan originally set by the little-remembered spinner Jim McConnon of Glamorgan in 1954 , and then my researches led me to the remarkable fact that John Birch , who played for Notts from 1973 to 1988 , was known as ‘ Bonk ’ . |
| 2 | Proposals to alter Zimbabwe 's Constitution , following the ending in April 1990 of the 10-year moratorium on constitutional changes , precipitated disagreements within the leadership of the ruling ZANU party , with President Robert Mugabe reportedly opposed by the majority of the politburo over his proposals to introduce a one-party state structure . |
| 3 | But on his last full campaigning day in Monklands East , a depressed part of west central Scotland badly hit by the collapse of traditional industries , he was making time for the locals he has represented — with a boundary change — since 1970 . |
| 4 | FOLIE ? is the title of a film and a book about Maurice Utrillo just published by the couple infernal Fabris-Petrides . |
| 5 | Bank Assistants can feel aggrieved and betrayed that the Bank declared in the Labour Court that their claim was debarred by the National Pay Agreement , the P.E.S.P. At no time during the previous two years was the P.E.S.P. ever mentioned by the Bank . |
| 6 | Art depends a lot on contrast and in urban areas there is plenty of that — even in a place like Darwin repeatedly bombed by the Japanese in World War 11 and further flattened by Cyclone Tracy in 1974 , now rebuilt as an up-to-date hotelsville in a style of architecture that , trying hard to be modern , succeeds in being already dated . |
| 7 | The measures addressed ( i ) restoring peace in the region of Sarajevo ; ( ii ) re-opening the Belgrade-Zagreb motorway ; ( iii ) the security of humanitarian convoys ; ( iv ) the situation of " pink zones " in Croatia ( Serb-populated areas in Croatia not covered by the UN peace plan , but still patrolled by the UN Protection Force in Yugoslavia — UNPROFOR ) ; and ( v ) placing Croatia 's Prelavka peninsula under UN forces . |
| 8 | Restoration is certainly not a problem in the case of an extraordinary painting by Peter Paul Rubens recently bought by the J. Paul Getty Museum . |
| 9 | Nor was the successful Counter-Reformation beyond the Alps much affected by the spirit of Trent even in non-musical matters ; the most firmly Catholic of rulers , the King of Spain and the prince-bishops of the Empire , were very jealous of Papal interference in their domains . |
| 10 | I arrived in South Africa still stunned by the shock of hearing what my father had had to tell me , half expecting to find marriages being destroyed by outside parties everywhere I looked ! |
| 11 | She was beyond coping with it ; she had no intention of living there ; she had moved , instead , to an early eighteenth-century townhouse in the Faubourg Saint-Germain , a quarter of Paris still preferred by the pre-Napoleonic French aristocracy . |
| 12 | In spite of the technology being used on circuitry which is 30 years old Johnson still swears by the sound quality of the analogue master tape — and it was this sound which Arnold so praised . |
| 13 | The first is to suppose that God always guides by the majority vote , by the reasonable thing , by sanctified common sense . |
| 14 | The bath qol was an inferior substitute for the Word of God formerly given by the Spirit to a prophet . |
| 15 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 16 | Alicia Paredes , Director of the social action centre , La Semilla , in Lima , Peru , has had her work as Christian social worker in sub-urban and rural Peru publicly recognised by the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA . |
| 17 | There was concern that , with Monrovia effectively besieged by the NPFL , food and medical supplies would run out . |
| 18 | From the collection as a whole there emerges above all a Modigliani who was a most able draughtsman , a Modigliani much maligned by the critics who have unfortunately let themselves be led astray by legends rather than concentrating on the work . |
| 19 | In 1952 Durham University had two campuses , one in the ancient cathedral city of Durham nearly encircled by the River Wear and the other twelve miles away in the industrial city of Newcastle on the River Tyne . |
| 20 | The implicit linking of the two issues represented the most serious attack on the patriotism of Clinton yet mounted by the President , and was denounced by the Clinton team as " a pathetic ploy by a desperate politician " . |
| 21 | Flaubert , on his way up the Nile in 1850 , found Esna much enlivened by the presence of ulmeh , literally " learned women " , prostitutes who had been banished from Cairo by Muhammad Ali some years before . |
| 22 | The Unitarian minister had established a reading room in Yeovil in 1842 , and in 1849 the Rev F.R. Robertson formed the first Working Men 's Institute at Brighton closely followed by the setting up of a similar Institute in South Shields . |
| 23 | It is an obvious advantage that ASV provide two substantial fill-ups in shorter pieces by the same composers , though it is conceivable that Hyperion might recouple what was one of its early CD issues , adding more material by Finzi and Stanford already recorded by the same soloist . |
| 24 | For a second Chrissie just stood by the grill , half watching the toast , half frowning , glancing along the hallway to where Linda was standing , staring down the front garden path . |