Example sentences of "[noun prp] by the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A video recording of a visit made to North Korea in mid-May by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Hans Blix , and a team of inspectors , was made public on June 3 . |
| 2 | FEELING sorry for poor old George ‘ Punchy ’ Walker , so brutally deprived of his role as chairman and chief exec of Brent Walker by the rest of the board ? |
| 3 | In June 1312 , however , he was captured at Scarborough and soon afterwards was murdered while in the earl of Warwick 's safe-custody : thus , no longer an embarrassment to the king , Gaveston by the circumstances of his death divided the nobles . |
| 4 | Renamed the Communist Party of Slovakia " Party of the Democratic Left in October 1990 , it had become simply the SDL by the end of the year . |
| 5 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 6 | At present , there is little to suggest continued occupation at Ilchester by the time of full Saxon penetration in the seventh century . |
| 7 | Important commodities were spices , the control of which was largely responsible for European involvement and exploration leading to the Spanish and Portuguese colonizations and ultimately to the Dutch monopoly of nutmegs and cloves in Indonesia by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 8 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |
| 9 | The loss in remittances from workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States by the end of 1991 was expected to be in excess of US$150 million . |
| 10 | Erm now what powers are given to the president of the United States by the constitution of the United States ? |
| 11 | Macari looks set to take over at Parkhead by the end of the week . |
| 12 | Only 2,122 had been approved in the whole of the Auvergne by the end of 1981 , covering 7. 1% of its land area . |
| 13 | In 1127 the count of Flanders was murdered while at prayer in the church of St Donatian in Bruges by the members of a mainly clerical clan to whom he had done disservice ; and Henry and Louis intrigued with the local nobles to ensure the succession of a count to their liking . |
| 14 | Oil prices lost 45c to close at $17.70 a barrel in London yesterday after doubts about the effectiveness of the quotas agreed on Tuesday by the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries . |
| 15 | Over 300,000 others were believed to have crossed into Saudi Arabia from Kuwait by the end of the year . |
| 16 | Discussions were also under way with Hungary on a similar agreement , not actually signed until March 10 , providing for the withdrawal of most of the 52,000 Soviet troops from Hungary by the end of 1990 and the remainder by July 1991 . |
| 17 | ‘ Edward by the Grace of God , etc. , to all Sheriffs , Bailiffs , etc . |
| 18 | This shows Hercules holding the Hydra by the neck of the only visible head with his club raised ( rig . |
| 19 | It has been speculated by Smith that this idea might have been suggested to Bourgelat by the Earl of Pembroke ( 1734–1794 ) , a cavalry officer in the Seven Years ' War . |
| 20 | The story of the abrupt curtailment of life in Pompeii by the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79 and the subsequent preservation of the city , not only its architecture but of the stuff of life itself — bread , utensils , eggs and bodies of humans , dogs and birds — through the protection of its coating of lava and ash is a well known one and has been fully and vividly recounted many times from the eye-witness story of Pliny himself to the present day . |
| 21 | IBM Corp 's IBM Personal Software Products division is on the move : it is decamping its headquarters from Somers , New York to Austin , Texas by the end of next quarter . |
| 22 | In the year 1208 Sora ( in the Regno to the east of Rome ) and the title of count were conferred on Richard Conti by the king of Sicily 's representative , and on 6 October Richard tendered the oath of vassalage to the pope at Ferentino for all the territories he had acquired and investiture was made with the gilded chalice ( per cuppam deauratam ) . |
| 23 | He grabbed Rodomonte by the scruff of the neck and pushed him towards the light , holding his nose inches away from the crackling fluorescence . |
| 24 | In the Lonrho case , the Law Lords in effect decided that the Secretary of State had no duty to give reasons for his decision not to refer the takeover of Harrods by the Al-Fayeds to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 25 | STP can be distinguished from LTP by the use of protein kinase inhibitors , in the presence of which potentiation usually persists for only 30–60min r81–85 . |
| 26 | Evidently , the hoped-for resolution of the locus of expression of LTP by the application of quantal analysis has not yet been achieved . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A report on Portugal published in February by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said early entry into the mechanism ‘ could help ease the costs of lowering its inflation rate ’ , which at 11.4 p.c. last year was one of the highest in Europe . |
| 29 | Earlier in the year Utah had approved legislation which virtually outlawed all abortions , while legislation prohibiting abortions even in cases involving rape , incest and maternal risk , was passed in February by the legislature of South Dakota . |
| 30 | The government capitulated within hours , agreeing late on April 16 to pay minimum wages owed from January and February by the end of April , to abolish the contentious taxes , and to adopt a new system of paying social security . |