Example sentences of "of the [noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Central to this definition is the concept of the removal of dirt by the application of energy . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . " |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Bou Thang and Chea Soth were replaced as Vice-Chairs of the Council of Ministers by Sar Kheng and Norodom Chakkrapong . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Pensions give some indication of the level of benefits by the early seventies . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Conservative election victory of 1951 also brought little immediate change in the control of the level of investment by the supply industry . |
| 19 | What , in particular , remains of the doctrine of the sovereignty of Parliament by which no one Parliament may bind the actions of its successor ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Luke begins his account of the birth of Jesus by trying to set it in the context of world history . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | In effect , Henry acted in breach of the treaty of Paris by using his style as duke of Normandy and count of Anjou for acts of English internal administration . |
| 26 | Louis XIV duly carried out the letter of the Treaty of Utrecht by forcing the self-styled James III to move into Lorraine , technically a separate province , 100 miles [ 160 km ] from Paris , but James II 's widow still resided at St Germain , a centre for Jacobite intrigue , from which messages were carried to England by French diplomatic couriers . |
| 27 | Ever since the end of the second world war , France had endeavoured to absorb the Saar area into their country , but in 1957 , it was returned to the Federal Republic of West Germany , and following the signing of the Treaty of Rome by the original six countries , in March 1957 , the European Economic Council was created and the Federal Republic was allowed to join the E.E.C . |
| 28 | The problem of the transfer of loyalty by members of the aristocracy from one Merovingian to another attracted the attention of Guntram and Childebert shortly after Rauching 's death , when they met at Andelot . |
| 29 | The collapse of the Husayn-Arafat accord led to a new phase of cooperation between Israel , the United States and Jordan aimed at objectives similar to those of the early seventies : the erosion of support for the PLO in the territories , the reinforcement of the normality of occupation by a programme to improve ‘ the quality of life ’ , a term coined in this context by US Secretary of State George Schultz . |
| 30 | The effects ranged from the hilarity and confusion produced by laughing gas ( nitrous oxide in less than anaesthetic doses ) to a simple diminution of the sense of pain by fever-reducing drugs of the coal-tar dyestuffs industry ( see Chapter 2 ) . |