Example sentences of "[noun prp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Loya Jirga approved a number of far-reaching amendments to the country 's 1987 Constitution [ see pp. 35782 ] , drafted in mid-May by a commission chaired by Vice-President Abdorrahim Hatef . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Barclays bought Martins , and was only prevented from merging with Lloyds by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 4 | He was about to lead Sir John through the wicket gate to the priest 's house when a dark shape jumped from the shadows and grabbed Philomel by the bridle . |
| 5 | Visitors are drawn to that city on the Adriatic by the mosaics depicting the Emperor Justinian and his notorious wife , Theodora . |
| 6 | Bosnia is a landlocked area , shut off from the Adriatic by the parallel ranges of the Dinaric Alps . |
| 7 | Annabel appeared too , tugging that awful Kezia by the hand . |
| 8 | The Republicans lost their narrow majority in Congress at the 1954 mid-term elections ; but Eisenhower 's personal popularity ensured that they retained the White House in 1956 , when he defeated Adlai Stephenson by an even greater margin than in 1952 . |
| 9 | A man was alerted to a fire in the kitchen of his home in Norton Road , Southwick , Sunderland , at midnight on Saturday by a smoke alarm . |
| 10 | Many reformers also complained that the new party 's founding document , adopted on Saturday by an 80 per cent majority , did not go far enough . |
| 11 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 12 | Then S is not empty since a ε S. By the obvious extension of principle W from |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | One of those attacks involved the stabbing to death of Rolan Adams by a racist mob . |
| 15 | The captain took Corbett by the sleeve , led him over to them and tapped one of the players on the shoulder . |
| 16 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 17 | The old man 's gaunt face broke into a smile and his thin blue-veined hands clasped Corbett by the arms . |
| 18 | I personally do believe that it would have been much better if ministers had had a number of discussions about the Falkland Islands in the period preceding the invasion of the Falklands by the Argentinians . |
| 19 | In the Arc she was reopposed by Shardari and by Saint Estephe , who had himself been beaten in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud by the German-trained Acatenango , also in the Longchamp field and unbeaten in his last twelve races , including the German Derby . |
| 20 | The sequence of accidents through which the hero has to steer his suffering way to achieve fame and fortune ( even to the extent , in Peter Simple , of years incarcerated in Bedlam by a wicked uncle ) must be viewed in the context of society nearly two centuries ago ; even so , these are organised , contrived and deliberately sensational plots which serve to contain the sprawling , spanking reality of Marryat 's detail . |
| 21 | ‘ The trophy was in the shape of a wooded scroll with a quartz clock and a brass plate inscribed with the words , ‘ Presented to Joan Rawson by the Stockport & District Concert Secretaries at the 29th Command Show 1992 . ’ |
| 22 | Müller caught Eloise by the elbow . |
| 23 | Several weeks of demonstrations in the northern state of Katsina by a group loyal to the local Shi'ite Moslem leader , Mallam Yakubu Yahaya , came to a head in April . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But they would not countenance the replacement of the pro-Soviet Marxist regime in Afghanistan by a regime that proclaimed itself ‘ neither East nor West ’ in a fashion similar to the Iranian theocracy . |
| 26 | Carter also suffered a devastating setback when the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union made necessary the withdrawal of SALT II from the Senate , a treaty that had been the centrepiece of his defence policy . |
| 27 | Although the conflict was perceived in the West as being an invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union , the prime treaty commitment is in the Agreement between Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Principle of Mutual Relations in Particular of Non-Interference and Non-Intervention . |
| 28 | This plan provided for the withdrawal of Soviet troops in exchange for ‘ guarantees of the neutrality ’ of Afghanistan by the Great Powers and its neighbours and the creation of peace-keeping forces . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In March , a limited edition of the Frank Wootton fine art print ‘ Adlertag , 15 August 1940 ’ was signed at RAF Biggin Hill by the artist and six Battle of Britain pilots . |