Example sentences of "[vb pp] by [noun] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The change from a rural economy largely dominated by subsistence agriculture to one with a greater emphasis on cash crops also led to social changes in the interior of the Low Country similar to those which accompanied the spread of coconut plantations in Kurunagala district . |
| 2 | Pronounced ‘ Polly Beeious ’ by Silas Wegg , and ‘ supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman Virgin' . |
| 3 | If the specimen is immersed face-down , bubbles can not be released and remain attracted by surface tension to the surface , locally impeding further reaction and giving a very uneven etch . |
| 4 | Anecdotal evidence , however , suggests a relative shift from retail investors attracted by tax advantages to institutional investors such as life insurers and pension funds . |
| 5 | Rudd designed his monocoque car for 1963 — ‘ it had clever tricks like inboard variable race suspension , but it was a dog ’ — and also he found himself committed by Sir Alfred to building a Le Mans car powered by Rover 's gas turbine . |
| 6 | The move had been preceded by police visits to the printers of It , Oz , and Rolling Stone . |
| 7 | Docklands Express was also shortened by William Hill to 12-1 from 14-1 and Coral to 12-1 from 20-1 . |
| 8 | Extra value and appeal has been added by Stanley Tools to its three blade-locking Galaxie II measuring tapes , with the addition of steel belt clips for extra convenience when working . |
| 9 | Midshipman Callender 's friends no doubt were aware that efficiency united to interest was the strongest claim to promotion in the navy , and Lord Keith 's correspondence abounds in references to interest being a motive in bringing a man forward in the service : ‘ I have made McKenzie a lieutenant into the Rattlesnake ; he was a friend of Mr. Dunsmuress and recommended by Lord Elphinstone to me , so I am glad to have served him ’ , a comment which suggests that the admiral was influenced by something more than Mr. McKenzie 's personal abilities . |
| 10 | It is in the field of general international trade law — a field in which three international organizations , Unidroit , UNCITRAL , and the ICC are particularly active — that the overlap is most prominent ; and problems may also arise where work in such field is considered by specialist organization to impact on their area of expertise . |
| 11 | Works traditionally ascribed to the masters but considered by de Groot to be incorrect , have been omitted , for as the author stated : ‘ it is less unpleasant for the private collector to have his pictures passed over in silence than to have them mentioned and definitely described as false ’ . |
| 12 | That is the amount conceded by John Major to the EC budget , swelling the Brussels coffers managed by Commission President Jacques Delors to £64.4 billion a year by 1999 . |
| 13 | The draft state budget for the 1991-92 financial year , beginning on April 1 , 1991 , was presented by President Suharto to the House of Representatives on Jan. 7 . |
| 14 | The Maps and Text of the Boke of Idrography Presented by Jean Rotz to King Henry VIII , 1981 ; Germain Lefèvre-Pontalis ( ed . ) , |
| 15 | However , Bush had told reporters that US aid to Poland was hampered by US commitments to the former Soviet republics . |
| 16 | Both Scotland Yard and Thames Valley police were originally instructed by Palace officials to ‘ take no action ’ over the tape . |
| 17 | Had Waddell 's trial in Edinburgh not been the farce it was , had he been found guilty of the murder of Mrs Ross as he should have been and sentenced by Lord Robertson to life imprisonment , as he should have been , it would seem likely that Mrs Chipperfield would be alive today . |
| 18 | The old Saltburn mortuary chapel is to be leased by Langbaurgh Council to Cleveland Wildlife Trust for use as a store . |
| 19 | Oldman 's own Mozart collection included the unique letters written by Constanze Mozart to the publisher J. A. André which first appeared in his English translation within volume three of Emily Anderson 's The Letters of Mozart and his Family ( 1938 ) . |
| 20 | He studied a letter written by Lord Byron to his sister , Mrs Leigh , on 29 August 1816 . |
| 21 | It was written by Mary Edgar to a Mrs Waddell ; nothing is known about either of them , but one would like to have known Mary Edgar who could write such a letter . |
| 22 | Following the article ‘ Iron Trade ’ in the August/September Amnesty by Brian Wood concerning the overseas promotion of leg cuffs , and the many letters written by Amnesty readers to MPs expressing their concern , the Minister of State for Trade and Industry , Tim Sainsbury , launched an official inquiry . |
| 23 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , there was a collection of letters written by Martin Beale to his mother ; they were of purely family interest , kept by her out of sentiment I suppose . |
| 25 | ‘ When you were here you mentioned a collection of letters written by Martin Beale to his mother which came into your mother 's possession later . |
| 26 | Until the end of April Margot Gordon and Marcello Aldega will be showing a number of pictures from their 1992 catalogue , including : Fra Bartolommeo 's ‘ Holy Family with the infant St John the Baptist ’ dated by Chris Fisher to around 1515–16 ; a ‘ Nativity with Saints ’ by Penni , attributed by Nicholas Turner ; a late ‘ Male Profile ’ by Parmigianino , possibly a self-portrait ; a ‘ Putto ’ by Annibale Carracci , attributed by Oberhuber and relating to the upper part of the S. Gregorio altarpiece , Bologna ; two sheets by Simone Cantarini , ‘ Jove and Ganymede ’ and a ‘ Male figure ’ . |
| 27 | It is dated by Michael Jaffe to around 1605 , although Ann Marie Logan puts is at around 1601 . |
| 28 | The meeting with Fisher , in the Old Palace at Canterbury , was felt by Michael Ramsey to be odd . |
| 29 | The total owed by member states to the organization over the last three years stood at £6,000,000 ( US$11,000,000 ) , compared with the total appropriation for 1990-91 of £25,400,000 . |
| 30 | The viaduct was built by Thomas Brassey to a design by Lewis Cubbitt , using locally made bricks , in 1848–50 . |