Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exchange in such a commodity with Spain may explain the amount of Anglo-Saxon metalwork in the Bordeaux region of south-west France ( Leeds 1953 ) , as at Herpes-en-Charente , as well as the Frankish interest in the area expressed by the campaigns of Clovis from the late fifth century onwards ( James 1977 ) . |
| 2 | The soldiers and police guarding the gate heard , ‘ By the wires of Greenham , we sit down and weep , weep for this our land ’ . |
| 3 | Appearing before a Senate committee that was pondering ‘ the general area ’ of China and its implications , an official of the State Department said of the fund : ‘ It might be used in other areas of the Far East which are affected by the developments in China . |
| 4 | BOOK REVIEW / Sisson : poet and commuter analyst : C J Fox welcomes the scorn and vigour shown by the memoirs of C H Sisson : ‘ On the Look-Out ’ — C H Sisson : Carcanet , 14.95 pounds |
| 5 | by the massifs of Bramsche and Vlotho ( Figs. 4 and 5 ) , where palaeogeothermal events of Upper Cretaceous age have determined the coalification pattern . |
| 6 | Russia proposed that it be regarded as the successor state of the Soviet Union in respect of the START treaty , but this was finally rejected by the others in April [ see p. 38890 ] . |
| 7 | I had taken to finishing off the flat beer left in cans by the members of Norris 's itinerant card school after its frequent visits chez nous , and was seriously considering starting to steal from bookshops in an attempt to raise some cash . |
| 8 | A major rearmament effort was promised by the members of NATO , who were joined in 1952 by Greece and Turkey . |
| 9 | The congress elected as the union 's new chair Eduard Sagalayev , a former head of Soviet Central Television 's main current affairs unit , who was described by The Times of Feb. 8 as a " leading advocate of free speech and Western-style news reporting " . |
| 10 | A working visit on Feb. 11 to Bonn , Germany , by UK Prime Minister John Major was described by The Times of Feb. 12 as marking the start of " a new era of close co-operation " . |
| 11 | In what was described by The Times of April 20 as " the worst crisis in relations between the two NATO allies " , 15 Turkish diplomats were withdrawn from the Turkish embassy in Bonn , West Germany , and eight West German diplomats were expelled from Ankara . |
| 12 | The programme , intended to stabilize the economy by the end of the year , was described by The Times of April 23 as " a mixture of deregulation and authoritarian measures " . |
| 13 | At the same time two of the nine popularly elected representatives , Akilisi Pohive ( leader of the dissident pro-democracy movement ) and Viliami Fukofuka , were each reported by the Times of Tonga to have returned about 12,000 pa'anga to the Treasury on the grounds that overtime payment for members of the Assembly was immoral and increased the financial burden on the people . |
| 14 | An ethnic Estonian born Aleksei Ridiger in 1923 in Tallinn ( then in independent Estonia ) , he was described by The Times of June 5 as " a populist figure with a reformist reputation " . |
| 15 | A cyclone which struck southern districts on June 2 was reported by The Times of June 3 to have killed 500 people . |
| 16 | During the commission set up in 1888 to inquire into charges made by The Times against Charles Stewart Parnell [ q.v. ] he provided crucial assistance to Parnell in exposing Richard Pigott [ q.v. ] as a forger . |
| 17 | I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention . |
| 18 | Glaspie , who subsequently left her State Department post for a teaching job , claimed that a taped record of these discussions as released by the Iraqis in September 1990 [ see p. 37696 ] was effectively " a fabrication " , having been cut and doctored to discredit her . |
| 19 | Vassall was recognised at once by the Russians in Moscow as a homosexual and blackmailed . |
| 20 | Although Edward apparently promised him the captaincy of Berwick in September 1319 , during the English siege of the town , and grants continued to come his way during 1320 , his allegiance was soon to be severed by the ambitions of Despenser , whose attempts in 1320–1 to enlarge his share of the Gloucester inheritance in south Wales raised the whole march against him . |
| 21 | They came together with pride and passion , each glorying in the belief that Hans Christian Andersen had been right and that their fairy-tale had indeed been written by the fingers of God and come to fruition in the Enchanted Garden that had captured the heart of a city . |
| 22 | Sometimes , too , information was deliberately falsified , misrepresented , touched up or omitted or withheld from the pope , as by the emissaries of Baldwin IX of Flanders . |
| 23 | Gladstone was dogged by the problems of Ireland to which his sense of duty drew him . |
| 24 | If change comes ( and if it does , it will be mild ) it will be driven more by the problems with Tokyo than by the aspirations of Osaka . |
| 25 | Our subject tutors are augmented by the services of Henley Development Advisers . |
| 26 | Judging by the greenhouses in JTR 's sketch there were grapes and more at the Castle prior to the 1920s . |
| 27 | TWO researchers at the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Cambridge were impressed , as I was , by the experiments at Yale which showed that the smell of chocolate helped subjects to remember words more efficiently than those who were not exposed to the smell . |
| 28 | The pattern of AIDS research is also likely to be profoundly shaped by the events of the past few weeks , but more importantly by the articles by Fauci and Haase and their colleagues than by the preliminary report of the Anglo-French study . |
| 29 | This rich analysis is amply illustrated by the articles by Geroski , Waterson , and Rees in this issue . |
| 30 | The unenclosed wastes in Epping Forest were consequently reduced from 12,000 acres in 1777 to 3,500 acres in 1871 , by illegal enclosures by the lords of the forest manors , and by sale of Crown rights by the Commissioners of Woods and Forests which amounted to disafforestment . |