Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] of [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | After applying a dark brown eyeliner , Yanina used a pinkish shade from an eyeshadow compact of red-browns by Prescriptives , and worked along the eyelid and socket , up to the brow line , and then blended the highlighter along the brow line . |
| 2 | The draft directive is expected to be adopted by the EEC council of ministers by the end of the year . |
| 3 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 4 | A telephone poll of athletes by national cross-country coach Bud Baldaro , who was not consulted by the UKCCC , revealed that most athletes likely to figure prominently strongly favoured accepting an offer by the Women 's Cross-Country and Road Running Association to incorporate the men 's trial into the women 's event at Birkenhead on February 16 . |
| 5 | Some minutes earlier , Campese and Farr-Jones were announced as worthy additions to the New South Wales Sports Hall of Champions by Premier Nick Greiner at a ceremony prior to the parade . |
| 6 | According to tax criteria , the top ten percent of the U S population produces an eight percent excess of males by comparison to the bottom ten percent . |
| 7 | These include , for example , rights to a selling exhibition of paintings by contemporary CIS artists in Germany ( 100 paintings at a price of DM600–3000 per painting , transportation costs and insurance to be paid by the German side ) ; rights for foreign firms to make reproductions to order of paintings held in museums in the CIS ( thirty copies at $1500 per copy ) , and exclusive foreign rights to the memoirs of cultural figures and former members of the government . |
| 8 | In contrast the development of local management schemes purportedly seeks to enhance local and community control of schools by bringing financial control closer to the point of professional and institutional decision-making . |
| 9 | Preceding Schipper 's adventure in Innenarchitektur is a group show of drawings by Los Angeles artist Paul McCarthy , small drawings and terracotta heads by New Yorker Sean Landers , and still photographs of video ‘ surveillance ’ by Julia Scher ( also from New York ) will be on display until 15 May . |
| 10 | In 1642 Goddard married Mary , daughter of John Greene , serjeant-at-law , a match which brought him useful connections , notably with Edward Bysshe [ q.v. ] , who was appointed Garter king of arms by Parliament in 1646 . |
| 11 | The next Moon-dwellers cropped up in a newspaper report of observations by the noted astronomer Sir John Herschel , using his superb 610-cm ( 20-ft ) telescope at the Cape of Good Hope , South Africa . |
| 12 | The aim is to get in the Guinness Book of Records by beating the current record of 2,463 objects in the air simultaneously from 821 jugglers juggling at least three objects . |
| 13 | Similarly , a ban was imposed on media coverage of statements by guerrillas or drug traffickers , with the threat of suspension or the cancellation of licences in cases of violation . |
| 14 | There was also the publication of various other sources relating to Mary , such as the Collections relating to Mary Queen of Scots by James Anderson ( 1727–8 ) ; and the first critical edition of John Knox 's History of the Reformation in Scotland ( 1732 ) . |
| 15 | The portrait over the marble and jade chimney piece is of the Queen 's mother , the Duchess of Teck , painted by F. O. Salisbury , and the only other picture in the room is a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots by Gerald Kelly . |
| 16 | These include a loan exhibition of paintings by Edmund Fairfax-Lucy at Mompesson House in Salisbury for the 1991 season and , in Wales , an exhibition on the theme of Welsh gardens which is being co-organised by the Davies Memorial Gallery , Newtown . |
| 17 | I recall being earnestly explained the breeding cycle of rabbits by pupils in a Class 6 in Machakos ( Kenya ) where the classroom floor appeared almost ankle deep in the creatures . |
| 18 | Sam has a brown paper bag of nuts by his feet . |
| 19 | BST increases the milk yield of cows by 10 to 20 per cent . |
| 20 | Woolworths store in Grange Road , Jarrow , was hit twice on Wednesday when raiders got away with large quantities of children 's clothes including the theft of about £7,000 worth of clothes by a group of about ten youths . |
| 21 | He and Rappaport ( 1987 ) , extending Porter 's approach , offer suggestions for an outline analysis of costs by strategic categories of action . |
| 22 | The family has been offered £6 worth of vouchers by the company , but say they wo n't be happy until their son has been compensated to their satisfaction for his suffering . |
| 23 | For a few moments , to give Hookum Singh time to get to the hall and ring the bell for the last time , the Collector held the toppling pile of bodies by himself , then he sped across the drawing-room after the Sikhs , his boots crunching broken glass from the cases of stuffed animals ; the Sikhs had bare feet , however , and did not crunch it so loudly . |
| 24 | The European Commission has requested that the criteria document for the " ecolabel " for hair spray should include reference to animal testing and the EC Cosmetics Directive , which envisages a cessation of animal testing of cosmetics by 1998 . |
| 25 | Obviously , to obtain a five per cent operating profit margin means they are marking up the cost price of products by far more than five per cent . |
| 26 | Parents of nearly 50,000 schoolchildren have been sent letters warning of cutbacks by the county council , which fears bigger classes and less choice for sixth formers . |
| 27 | The following cases were dealt with by Northallerton magistrates : Alan Robert Lazenby , 22 , of Knotto Bottom Road , Northallerton , was convicted of entering building and stealing property valued at £824 , entering a storage container and stealing property valued at £350 , dishonestly attempting to obtain £989.46 worth of goods by deception , dishonestly obtaining goods valued at £77 by deception , driving a van while disqualified and using a van without insurance , without a test certificate , driving while disqualified , failing to provide specimen of blood for analysis , driving car recklessly , using car with a defective tyre , with a defective braking system , failing to report an accident , failing to stop after an accident , failing to stop when required by PC , using a car without insurance ; 15 months imprisonment , licence endorsed , six points , disqualified for three years . |
| 28 | Such tables are provided in the book already mentioned , A Handbook of Dates by C.R. Cheney . |
| 29 | It was a gala evening of performances by the Kirov Ballet and Opera , in the presence of the Princess of Wales . |
| 30 | Thus in Figure 17.3(b) , the supply of bills on offer by the discount houses to the Bank falls as the rate of rediscount rises ( the supply curve of bills by the discount houses is upward sloping ) . |