Example sentences of "by [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By March the ship was getting into colder climes . |
| 2 | But by March the announcement of poll tax levels had helped to convert this lead into a massive 20% plus in most opinion polls . |
| 3 | By mid-June the danger was past , but Petain had still to nurse the army back to full health . |
| 4 | This is not to deny that Branagh is at his best as a performer in Henry 's most anguished outpouring , his prayer to the god of battles before Agincourt ; here Branagh the actor is least hampered by Branagh the self-publicist . |
| 5 | The chapter is somewhat confusing , for it is a conflation of at least two accounts concerning one rebellion led by Korah the son of Izhar , and another led by Dathan and Abiram . |
| 6 | The company sponsored Sarah on her MBA course which was run jointly by Henley the management college and Brunel University . |
| 7 | At the same time in England a similar union of king and Church was maintained by Edgar , by Ethelred the Unready when he was his own master , and by Cnut . |
| 8 | This is the site of the conquest of England in 1066 by William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings . |
| 9 | Attractions include : Rockingham Castle built by William the Conqueror ; Althorp House , ( family home of the Princess of Wales ) with magnificent paintings and porcelain ; Castle Ashby which has extensive landscaped gardens open to the public ; Sulgrave Manor , ancestral home of George Washington ; and the delightful Canal Museum at Stoke Bruerne . |
| 10 | Built by William the Conqueror on the site of an earlier fortification . |
| 11 | The abbey was founded by William the Conqueror to celebrate his victory over King Harold and as an atonement for the loss of life suffered in the battle . |
| 12 | Built by William the Conqueror in thanks for his victory over King Harold — legend has it that the high altar marks spot where Harold died from an arrow through his eye . |
| 13 | In his Historia Regum Angliae ( generally a work of little value ) there is an isolated and indignant digression on current depopulation in his own shire , prompted by his description of the harrying of villages by William the Conqueror . |
| 14 | The Abbey was dedicated to the dead Thomas à Becket by William the Lion , King of Scotland , in thanks for the Canterbury saint 's supernatural rescue of William from enemies at Alnwick . |
| 15 | A journey to the capital in the late 18th century can scarcely have been as harrowing an affair as that made to Kent by William the Emigrant in 1711 . |
| 16 | The story will be illustrated by examples of Castles in Northamptonshire , in particular from Rockingham itself , built by William the Conquerer as a royal fortress and regularly used by the Kings and Queens of England for 400 years . |
| 17 | For instance , all the coins made by Richard the Lionheart and his brother John carried the name of their long-dead father , Henry II . |
| 18 | By mid-May the government 's request for emergency relief supplies estimated at just over US$670,000,000 , with an additional US$740,000,000 for reconstruction , had met with pledges totalling only US$450,000,000 . |
| 19 | Celtic mercenaries were enrolled by Dionysius the Elder in southern Italy . |
| 20 | Built by Edward the Confessor , of sufficient strength to withstand a siege , it housed an almonry where the alms of the abbey were distributed and an abbey church built above it in the form of a cross . |
| 21 | Bury , reformed in Cnut 's reign , and Westminster , patronised by Edward the Confessor , may have gained much of their endowment during the eleventh century , but otherwise the Domesday picture was probably very similar to that which faced Cnut on his accession . |
| 22 | The white ground has the effect of making light seem to emanate from within pictures like the great Picardy Coast Scene with Children — Sunrise owned by HM the Queen or A Fishmarket near Boulogne from the Yale Center for British Art . |
| 23 | Kielder Water , the largest man-made reservoir in Europe , surrounded by the largest man-made forest in Europe , was opened by HM The Queen in June 1982 , and has been developed into a major water-sports centre . |
| 24 | The others were by Dumas the Elder and the Baron Brisse . |
| 25 | Eltharion lost nearly all of his family and saw his ancestral lands ravaged and burned in the cataclysmic Goblin invasion of Yvresse led by Grom the Paunch . |
| 26 | Your army may be led by Grom the Paunch of Misty Mountain . |
| 27 | By December the press , heavily scrutinized by Mussolini , kept a very low profile about it . |
| 28 | By December the team were meeting in the pub , ready for the birthday in April . |
| 29 | Whilst he voluntarily gave up his deferment in late 1969 , by December the draft had been replaced with a lottery system and Clinton 's name was not chosen . |
| 30 | The Star that appeared at [ Christ 's ] Birth , and the Journey of the Chaldean wise Men , is mentioned by Chalcidius the Platonist . |