Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [noun prp] by [art] " in BNC.

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1 By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy .
2 Gail , 25 who works in Human Resources at risley and hubby Mark will be enjoying the £250 , two-night holiday at one of Lancaster 's top hotels , Lancaster House , plus tickets to the outdoor performance of the wizard of Oz by the Duke 's Theatre company .
3 However , if theoretical physicists can prove the existence of God by the use of mathematics , I can almost certainly prove that she 's not Nick and his Cave by the same means .
4 Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland .
5 Not surprisingly they noticed the sack of Rome by the Gauls , because Massalia could not overlook such a movement of Celtic populations and because the invaders were a danger to Magna Graecia too , besides being used by Dionysius I as mercenaries .
6 The first event of Roman history contemporary Greeks witnessed with interest , and perhaps with apprehension , was the sack of Rome by the Gauls .
7 Though the sack of Delphi by the Celts is a legend , Apollo 's city had been in actual danger of being sacked .
8 The Gospels date from the period after the Jewish revolt of A.D. 66 and the sack of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70 .
9 In a letter penned on behalf of the Archbishop of Rouen by a famous stylist , Peter of Blois , Eleanor was reminded that it was a wife 's duty to submit , a reminder backed up by the threat of ecclesiastical sanctions .
10 Accordingly the issue in the case was whether the removal of Bury by the visitor was valid or not .
11 If their application is successful they will be asked by the University to provide details as required by DENI , and nominations will then be made by the University to DENI by the end of June of the proposed year of entry to the University .
12 My Lords , the appellant , Mr. Page , was appointed a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Hull by a letter dated 13 June 1966 .
13 PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust .
14 The Industrial Relations Research Unit was established at the University of Warwick by the Social Science Research Council in 1970 : its purpose to undertake research of a large-scale , long-term multidisciplinary character .
15 The acquisition of the sacred relic of the blood of Christ by the important monastery of Reichenau ( on Lake Constance ) in the 920s , its veneration there , and Otto I 's associating himself with that veneration , is an example of this religious feeling .
16 Similarly , the plundering of Wales by the Foreigners ( i.e. Scandinavians ) of Dublin and the English , recorded by the Irish Annals of Tigernach under 1030 , may have been a joint expedition , and there is a faint possibility that Dublin 's first bishop was consecrated by Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury in Cnut 's time , with whatever implications that might or might not have .
17 But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive .
18 The great days of the Macedonian Church culminated in the creation of the patriarchate of Ohrid in 976 , during the reign of Tsar Samuel ( Samuilo ) , but the whole picture changed after the defeat of Samuel by the Byzantine emperor , Basil II , in 1014 .
19 The exhibition is intended to underline the long term commitment to the study of Ruskin by the university 's Ruskin Programme , a research group made up of scholars from different disciplines in the humanities .
20 Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy .
21 THE INSTALLATION OF THE MAYOR OF RIPON BY THE DEAN ( Page 51 )
22 Greenpeace claimed its ship had been rammed off the coast of France by a Japanese warship escorting the shipment .
23 The four , Emmanuel Houtekins , his wife Godelieve Kets and their two children , had been on board a yacht , the Silco , in the Mediterranean ; there was some uncertainty over whether they had been seized off the coast near Gaza by the Abu Nidal group or south of Malta by a Libyan naval vessel .
24 Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants .
25 Yesterday , The Mail on Sunday wrote of a plot against the Princess of Wales by an inner group of courtiers .
26 The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas .
27 It is as awesome a task as the work in Easterhouse by the Salvation Army captain Eric Buchanan is daunting .
28 He was pressed on the issue on Tuesday by the Labour leader , John Smith .
29 Lawrence 's life , that which followed the historic desert victory over the Turks and the capture of Damascus by the Arabs , led by Prince Feisal .
30 ‘ We will be campaigning throughout the country on the theme ‘ the betrayal of Britain by the Conservative Party ’ , and saying the tax increases are merely to pay for mistakes of the past . ’
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