Example sentences of "[noun sg] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christianity became the official Imperial religion by the Edict of Milan in AD 314 , and thereafter several attempts were made to despoil and eventually destroy pagan monuments . |
| 2 | Or you could put a little gunnysack full of food on a big boom , and you could control their speed by the way you would swing it . ’ |
| 3 | Any reduction in orbital speed by the action of an additional force can be shown to lead to shrinkage of the orbit . |
| 4 | The fact is that nothing was done about the matter , and the goats were released from farm isolation by the ministry with subsequent disastrous results for me and for others . |
| 5 | Whole curricular thinking was inhibited by the need to preserve the first ; the breaking down of professional isolation by the need to conceal the latter . |
| 6 | Since 1945 this figure is put at 12 million and we have recently seen dramatic examples of the same desperate remedy by the boat people of Vietnam and those escaping from Cuba . |
| 7 | Yes , he could imagine it now , forty years from now , he and Tsu Ma , standing on the terrace by the lake , looking back … |
| 8 | The year has seen continued support of the Association by the RAFA Liaison Officers ( RAFALOs ) with membership from the serving RAF continuing to increase . |
| 9 | The community house was donated to the residents ' association by the Housing Executive and will be run by volunteers from the estate . |
| 10 | This was soon augmented by a further three acres immediately adjacent , donated to the Old Stopfordians ' Association by the Vice-Chairman ( in memory of his brother , Mr. Harry Towns ) and Mr. Thomas Harrison ( in memory of his son Peter , killed during the war ) . |
| 11 | Perhaps the greatest impact was made on his thinking by the Commonwealth Prime Ministers ’ Conference of that year , when general dismay was expressed about his proposed reductions in overseas garrisons before adequate air-reinforcement capabilities had been built up . |
| 12 | After entering the body , there is an immediate moult , and the L4 travel to the liver in the bloodstream , either from the intestine by the portal stream , or from the skin by the lungs and systemic circulation . |
| 13 | This point is academic — first , because so much of this type of absenteeism goes unnoticed or unrecorded ( it was described as ‘ hidden ’ truancy by the Pack Report ) , and second , because , realistically , the use of legal procedures would probably not be contemplated by any LEA until the problem had worsened and discussion with parents had failed to resolve it . |
| 14 | The muffled words were given a seductive rhythm by the drumming of the rain . |
| 15 | ‘ One must n't judge the horse by the bridle , ’ she used to say . |
| 16 | She saw the little procession of horsemen climbing the ramp towards Parfois , and crept up through the trees to see more closely , for it seemed to her that the middle figure of the five was bound , and one of those who rode beside him led his horse by the bridle . |
| 17 | A long time must be spent on suppling the horse by the use of circles , turns , changes of bend and transitions . |
| 18 | The bishop was harangued by ‘ fourtie wyfes of Prees ’ , one of whom ‘ rudeley began to take his horse by the bridell whereat the horse sprang aside and put the Bysshop in danger of a fall ’ . |
| 19 | Driven mad with grief by the loss of her child , she is thought to wander the streets weeping and crying out a ghostly memory of the pre-Conquest past . |
| 20 | Since then she has expanded her stock by the embryo transfer technique . |
| 21 | There is also information on where the local topos/guides can be bought ( that is assuming they are still in stock by the time you get there ) . |
| 22 | This ‘ Jaffa cake ’ scheme was soon also to be adopted for main-line Class 411 stock by the south-east sub-sector of Southern Region . |
| 23 | Other main forms of payment involve the issue of shares or loan stock by the purchaser . |
| 24 | Professor Charles Wilson views the effects of the Bubble as " salutary " , but considers that the taking over of so much of the South Sea Company 's excess stock by the Bank of England and East India Company perpetuated into the 1730s the situation in which more than half of the national debt was held by the great corporations . |
| 25 | and this is followed rather irregularly on its north side by the road from Corton Denham to Little Marston . |
| 26 | The most obvious targets were the remaining northern provinces of Vizcaya , Santander , Gijón and Oviedo , cut off from the rest of the Republic in three directions by Nationalist troops and on the fourth side by the sea . |
| 27 | ‘ We are appalled on this side by the behaviour of the appellant 's witnesses . |
| 28 | On June 7 , Camilla accepted an invitation to watch the polo at Windsor and was taken to one side by the Queen . |
| 29 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 30 | Obje objection site D thirty nine extends to some one point two five hectares and is bounded on three sides by hedgerows , trees and tracks , and on the south side by the boundary with existing property . |