Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paisley used his time to hammer home the religious significance of the battle with O'Neill by writing a commentary on Paul 's Letter to the Romans , the book which Paul had written while awaiting trial in prison . |
| 2 | When George Ill and his supporters questioned the local authority of the Duke of Richmond by attempting to remove him from the lord-lieutenancy in 1779 , they were firmly repulsed by a well-organised but short-lived local movement for ‘ reform ’ . |
| 3 | Impressed by the form of the material sciences , Althusser follows Engels in comparing the development of Marx 's ‘ science ’ with the development of the discovery of oxygen by Lavoisier and the relationship between the planets and the sun by Galileo . |
| 4 | Stumpe was instrumental in saving the nave of the church for use by the townspeople as their parish church . |
| 5 | Earlier , in 1278 , when Roger permitted the appropriation by Stafford priory of the church of Stowe by Chartley , he made no stipulation about the creation of a vicarage , but he did obtain a ten-mark annual pension for the dean and chapter of Lichfield 's common fund . |
| 6 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 7 | The poems appealed to members of the Church of England by their reverence for holy places , holy offices and seasons ; but they were also admired by Puritans and Nonconformists for their praise of the Scriptures and for their portrayal of a soul reasoning with , and even wrestling with , its Maker . |
| 8 | In a letter penned on behalf of the Archbishop of Rouen by a famous stylist , Peter of Blois , Eleanor was reminded that it was a wife 's duty to submit , a reminder backed up by the threat of ecclesiastical sanctions . |
| 9 | The sequence selectivity of the platination of DNA by cisplatin and its analogues has been investigated through a number of approaches , all of which indicate a preference for binding to GG sequences . |
| 10 | As a consequence of the write-off of debt by the government and the upturn in the European truck industry , the merger proved successful and was profitable from the start , with output at Leyland increasing . |
| 11 | Central to this definition is the concept of the removal of dirt by the application of energy . |
| 12 | In spite of the removal of smoke by roof ventilation , the scene of operations would be too remote for direct visual observation to provide a reliable indication of progress and no degree of artificial lighting , even if it could be provided and relied upon in these circumstances would offer adequate assistance . |
| 13 | If , of course , the identification of the scholar in Amasya by Husameddin is correct , and the facts about him accurate , it would also follow that Cemaleddin Aksarayi lived beyond 783/1381 . |
| 14 | One of the signs of the eclipse of classics by English was the foundation in 1907 of the English Association which was to propound very effectively the view that the new discipline had become " our finest vehicle for a genuine humanistic education " and that " its importance in this respect was growing with the disappearance of Latin and Greek from the curricula of our schools and universities . " |
| 15 | He was replaced as General Secretary of the Council of Ministers by Niko Gjyzari , who was in turn replaced as Chair of the State Planning Commission by Bujar Kolaneci . |
| 16 | Bou Thang and Chea Soth were replaced as Vice-Chairs of the Council of Ministers by Sar Kheng and Norodom Chakkrapong . |
| 17 | 7.7.9.2 To pay to the Landlord on demand with Interest ( where the Landlord has rebuilt and reinstated the Premises out of its own money ) the amount of such insurance money so irrecoverable in which event the provisions of clauses 7.5 and 7.6 shall apply and clause 7.7.9 should contain the following amendment : … anyone at the Premises expressly or by implication with the Tenant 's authority while under the Tenant 's control and in the employment of the Tenant wholly or partially irrecoverable … 7.8 Increase or decrease of the Centre If at any time during the Term the Centre shall be increased or decreased on a permanent basis the Insurance Rent Percentage shall be varied with effect from the first premium or additional premium payable in respect of a period after such a change by agreement between the parties or in default of agreement within [ 3 ] months of the first proposal for variation made by the Landlord in such a manner as shall be determined to be fair and reasonable in the light of the event in question by the Surveyor acting as an expert and not as an arbitrator This requires no comment . |
| 18 | Because of the shortage of plutonium , because of the call on plutonium by the Trident programme , he was required to reduce the warhead weight for the cruise system . |
| 19 | In addition to the objections already raised , such as the promotion of the goal of utilitarianism by questionable means , we can point to the fact that as compared with sarvodaya it shows a lack of humanity . |
| 20 | The research will involve the study of official records kept of the exercise of powers , observation of the handling of cases by the police , and interviews with police officers of all ranks ; it will be conducted in three separate subdivisions presenting different kinds of policing problems . |
| 21 | Pensions give some indication of the level of benefits by the early seventies . |
| 22 | As we have observed in earlier chapters , one of the major concerns of government one which can be traced back to the last century — is the control of the level of expenditure by the state . |
| 23 | The Conservative election victory of 1951 also brought little immediate change in the control of the level of investment by the supply industry . |
| 24 | What , in particular , remains of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament by which no one Parliament may bind the actions of its successor ? |
| 25 | Poldauf ( 1968 : 8 ) , for instance , completes Jespersen 's description of the infinitive of reaction by pointing out that : Jespersen … overlooked the fact that only " reaction " implying evaluation can be construed with the infinitive . |
| 26 | What he missed here was any consideration of the degree of resistance by the dispossessed classes and those sections of the population which follows them ; this surely is the determinant of the level and degree of violence necessary to reorganise social and economic life . |
| 27 | The corollary of the possession of power by companies is that the individuals , interest groups , and communities affected by it suffer a lack of control over the conditions which determine how they live their lives . |
| 28 | As a result of the cut-back in production by the steel industry 's customers and the ‘ dumping ’ of subsidized special steel imports , the numbers of people employed in metal manufacture have declined enormously in recent years : between mid-1979 and mid-1983 the reduction in the numbers employed in this sector was greater than in any other sector of the economy ( Department of Employment 1983 : 511 ) . |
| 29 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 30 | As the most recent poll tax was itself reduced as a result of the raising of VAT by 2.5 per cent , where are benefits that should accrue from what was supposed to be a ‘ new ’ progressive property tax ? |