Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ La toilette d'une jeune mariée dans le costume antique ’ , dated ‘ Roma 1777 ’ , is one of five large paintings by Joseph-Marie Vien commissioned by the Comte d'Angiviller and is offered at this auction of Old Master paintings with the estimate of FFr2–3m ( £200–300,000 ; $350–530,000 ) .
2 Murad 's successor , Bayezid I , was forced to turn his attention to the threat to his base in Asia Minor posed by the advance of the Mongol hordes of Timur the Lame ( Tamerlane ) .
3 A road from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is to be built as part of the project , providing a link to the proposed A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport .
4 A new road running from the bypass to the Cleveland boundary is also to be built , eventually providing a link to A66 junction at Long Newton proposed by the Department of Transport .
5 In the conflict with Gnosticism Rome played a decisive role , and likewise in the deep division in Asia Minor created by the claims of the Montanist prophets to be the organs of the Holy Spirit 's direct utterances .
6 Dr Wells offers his advice on a new audio tape Coping with Headaches and Migraine produced by the Pain Research Institute ( PRI ) .
7 The ratio of ATF1/CREB immunoprecipitated by the CREB antibody gives an underestimate of ATF1 .
8 The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears .
9 Ulimo officials on Aug. 25 professed to be committed to the ECOWAS peace initiative and claimed that their forces were only fighting to ensure that the NPFL abided by the Yamoussoukro agreement .
10 When Millie knelt by the bed and the mattress seemed out of reach , she had to raise her clasped hands head high to rest them against it .
11 The traffic arrangements for the Kumbh mela in 1906 were entrusted to the same officer who had made all the arrangements for the Great Delhi Durbar organized by the Viceroy Curzon in 1904 .
12 Iran and India sought to put forward a six-point peace plan , based on Iraqi withdrawal from Kuwait followed by the pull-out of Western forces from the region .
13 Nor was Keynes prompted by the return to gold at the prewar parity , for this event occurred after his campaign for ‘ national development ’ had begun .
14 WISE initiated by The Engineering Council and the Equal Opportunities Commission )
15 This is a manifestation of what Freud meant by the chaos of the id — the fact that it can contain within itself contradictory and mutually excluding instinctual drives without ever registering any distortion .
16 She expected to find Kathleen prostrated by the tragedy in her family , but although she spoke sadly of Cormac 's wasted life and her mother 's collapse , Kathleen seemed remarkably untouched by the tragedy .
17 Margaret Stanhope saw by the watch that never left his wrist that their unromantic interlude would soon be drawing to a close .
18 In late April , some 1,000 Alameda supporters packed a meeting in Oakland attended by the commission .
19 The constitutional proposals for Bosnia-Hercegovina presented by the Geneva Conference negotiators on Oct. 28 [ see p. 39150 ] were rejected by Radovan Karadzic , the Bosnian Serb leader .
20 Arsenal won by the way .
21 An illustration , from a not dissimilar field , of this approach in practice is Re Letters Rogatory Issued by the Director of Inspection of Government of India , where a United States Court of Appeals decided , after an analysis of the powers and duties of a tax assessment agency in India , that it was not a ‘ tribunal ’ entitled to the execution in New York of a Letter of Request seeking action under 28 U.S.C. 1782 .
22 In October there will be a Barn Dance at Rayleigh organised by the display team in aid of their funds .
23 Multiple sclerosis sufferer Nicola Jones , 18 , who attends Thornhill Special School in Hartlepool , has scooped one of just 24 places on a month-long expedition from Peking to Pakistan organised by the Journey of a Lifetime Trust .
24 21 Orienteering event at Sutherland Lodge , Pickering organised by the North York Moors National Park .
25 At that time the Japanese foreign ministry distanced itself from the Liberal Democrats ' mission to Pyongyang organised by the party 's strongman , Shin Kanemaru .
26 TV dictates that the four-match round is spread over three days , with Ipswich or Liverpool v Aston Villa earmarked by the BBC as their Sunday game on March 8 ( 3.05 ) .
27 When the protest finally collapsed , Richard Branson stood by the door ushering out the gypsy-like throng , politely removing the records , tapes , posters and movable items of office furniture which had been secreted in robes and kaftans .
28 Otto Kruger stood by the altar , a white robe over his elegant suit .
29 Bernice sat by the raft .
30 If the finger had not been pointed , all the class would have known who was being called to face the fearsome sister , and when Millie stood by the side of the nun 's desk , the sheet of paper was immediately thrust into her face with the demand , ‘ What do you mean by that ?
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