Example sentences of "by a [noun sg] of [noun] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The rise of the hill is dominated by a statue of Robert the Bruce on horseback , and within a swirl of concrete rotunda is the Borestone , at which the first blow of the battle was struck and by which Bruce set up his standard . |
2 | Neill LJ giving the judgment of the court said : ( 1 ) Where the parties are , or have been , linked by a contract of employment the obligations of the employee are to be determined by the contract between him and his employer . |
3 | Hampered by a lack of guidelines the Chancellor 's initiative to encourage private investment in public projects is off to a slow start . |
4 | The rest is met by a cover-charge of £2.50 an issue to around 40,000 subscribers worldwide . |
5 | And that by a stroke of coincidence no bed and breakfasts were open and you were forced to seek help at the Hall ? |
6 | I just happened to be seen by a lot of people every night . |
7 | We have now shown that , even for a single symptom shared by a set of patients the explanation of that symptom might be different for different patients . |
8 | Vigorously opposed by a number of clubs the IRFU has stood firm but ironically the flow of foreigners has continued , albeit in a different direction . |
9 | He then heard my earnest indefatigable prayers and by a train of events the most impossible and unexpected released me from the cruel bondage in which the enemy of my soul had bound me . |
10 | Here we use results from the Rosat all-sky survey , which increases by an order of magnitude the number of X-ray stars , to show that the dividing line is not an artefact of poor sampling . |
11 | The single unemployed living on their own are the only group who have lost significantly from the changes — by an average of £2.16 a week . |
12 | Over the past two decades the owners have been generous on pay because their revenues have increased by an average of 12% a year . |
13 | Yet their fuel bills will rise by an average of £2 a week and more in the colder areas . |
14 | Mr Dorrell , visiting Darlington Memorial Hospital , claimed during the 1980s the number of patients treated in the town rose by an average of 5pc a year . |