Example sentences of "by a [noun] of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joseph was played by a Yugoslavian Sergeant , Mary by a slim Gambian Corporal and the three wise men by a trio of Tahitians with tribal tattoos and scarred faces . |
| 2 | Some of her findings are set out in Table 1.2 below ; this compares the ranks of men and women employed in certain occupations with the ranks assigned by a sample of respondents to the wives of men in these occupations . |
| 3 | They have looked at the commission of offences reported over time by a sample of youths in longitudinal surveys . |
| 4 | As in so many countries in Europe , the collapse of the communists has been accompanied by a resurgence of support for the extreme right . |
| 5 | Within two months of taking office , Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa was seriously damaged politically by a resurgence of speculation concerning his role in the Recruit-Cosmos share scandal . |
| 6 | Recession is guaranteed for several months to come by higher taxes , higher interest rates and an exchange rate depressed both by a squeeze on the supply of local currency and by a surfeit of dollars from the booming trade in cocaine paste . |
| 7 | If ever a man and a club seemed , in theory , to be ill-suited , then it is Winterbottom and Harlequins , the club who once caused Dick Best to say when confronted by a bout of absenteeism of Saturday : ‘ All perfectly valid excuses of course ; skiing in Andorra , shopping in Harrods … ‘ |
| 8 | But his ‘ aesthetic humanism ’ which , according to Art News and Review , ‘ has brought man back into the world of visual experiment ’ , was already being challenged by a revival of interest in non-figurative art . |
| 9 | His large entourage were all animated by a spirit of hostility towards the northerners : any nobleman who murmured against them was instantly thrown into gaol . |
| 10 | Over its last two decades , slight improvement in some areas may well have been offset by a measure of decline in industrialising areas like the west Midlands and south Lancashire . |
| 11 | These form open-fronted pockets , held by a run of stitches on their outer sides to a symmetrical pattern . |
| 12 | With particular transactions , such as the import of goods , it might be possible for an agency financing them to have ‘ possession and custody ’ of the goods by a system of control over their warehousing . |
| 13 | His drastic remodelling of the archaic and irrational administrative system , replacing it by a system of intendants on something like the French model , his abrogation in June 1789 of the Joyeuse Entrée of Brabant , the most important of the constitutional documents which limited his powers in the Netherlands , his collection of taxes which had not been approved by the provincial estates , all aroused furious opposition . |
| 14 | Their Lordships held that such consent can not be given or implied by a course of conduct over the years as it is important in the interests of both the local authority and the public that consent should not be accidental or informal . |
| 15 | Instead , the puritans advocated a regular routine of six days of work followed by a day of rest on the Sabbath , the famous Nonconformist ethic . |
| 16 | The decision was greeted by a chorus of outrage from trade unionists , Green party activists and Communist party leaders . |
| 17 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 18 | When he came to where the men were standing , identified by a tuft of wool in their hat-band or buttonhole , George hesitated . |
| 19 | He had had severe headaches and depression , and was made nervous by a warning of treachery from a madman who ran out of the woods . |
| 20 | In Ackroyd 's life of Eliot we read about a major poet who was a good ventriloquist ; a man of multiple personality who swore by a principle of impersonality in art which he was later to unswear by locating The Waste Land in the stresses of a domestic life , and whose art bears the indelible signature of that distinctive protean character of his ; a man who was often miserable and tormented . |
| 21 | Legislative power is exercised by a Chamber of Deputies with 254 members elected directly for four-year terms ( with half the seats renewable every two years ) and a Senate with 46 members nominated by the legislatures of the 23 provinces for nine-year terms ( with one-third of the members nominated every three years ) . |
| 22 | Gandalf Technologies Inc , Ottawa , Ontario has signed a letter of intent to sell the majority of its shares in Gandalf Mobile Systems Inc to Geotek Industries Inc : the Canadian communications equipment supplier will retain a minority interest in the company , which today represents 3% of its revenue ; Gandalf also says that revenues for the fourth quarter ended Aprch 31 , 1993 were slightly below expectations and a modest loss is expected for the period — strong business in the UK were moderated by a weakening of sterling against the US dollar in the fourth quarter and lower than expected revenues in continental Europe and in other international markets also hit the figures . |
| 23 | Baldwin was cautious about the longer-term measures , and was constantly attracted by a lengthening of hours in order to assuage the sharpness of the wages conflict . |
| 24 | They passed a grey stone workshop selling agricultural machines , a small garage with two petrol pumps , and a war memorial surmounted by a statue of Christ on the cross . |
| 25 | The interior is less satisfactory ; it is muddled and confused by a multiplicity of bric-a-brac in a variety of periods . |
| 26 | The intellectually capacious introduction to Jeff Koons by Rosenblum is followed by a voyage of discovery through the life and art of Jeff Koons , with lib-theological gloss by Jeff Koons . |
| 27 | Scotland , meantime , had her own monarchs and her own parliament which , notwithstanding accession to the English throne by a king of Scotland in 1603 , continued to regulate the affairs of the Scottish kingdom according to its own laws and customs . |
| 28 | If this argument has any substance , it lies in the fact that service on an involuntary agent attracts no legal as opposed to practical requirement that there be any supplemental transmission of information to the defendant abroad , whereas supplemental transmission of the actual documents served is required to be effected by the huissier initiating notification au parquet and by a Secretary of State on whom documents are served under the similar United States practice . |
| 29 | It was presented to Parliament by a Secretary of State for Environment , Trade and Industry , Health , Education and Science etcetera , in September 1990 . |
| 30 | But it was the call for investment that aroused the most plain fears , and these have been compounded in recent days by a clutch of investments in Eastern Europe by big western manufacturers . |