Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] of [noun prp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been stated that the principle of primogenital succession was increasingly observed in the eleventh century ; but there was a substantial difference between accepting the customary right of the eldest son to succeed , if he were of age and competent , and accepting it as an inviolable rule , as was proved by the usurpation of Robert the Frisian , and perhaps also by the succession of Raymond IV of Toulouse ( though here the facts are rather uncertain ) . |
| 2 | A general armistice was signed on 4 December and by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the war was brought to an end . |
| 3 | I hear from two of my friends that they were likewise inspired and helped by the Mass of Christ the King ’ . |
| 4 | " Item whereas there is Sixscore pounds due unto mee by Roger Harper and Johnn Barrett Payable at Certen Dayes and tymes agreed uponn betweene us , My mynde and will ys That the Somme of Fortye pounds being a Thirdd parte of the sayd Sixscore pounds shall be and remayne to the augmentacion and increase of the wages of the Schoolemaster of Stockport for the tyme beinge , for ever , to be hadd and receaved at suche dayes and tymes as the same shall bee due , And further I do will and bequeath the sume of Tenn pounds for and towards the augmenting of the Schoolmasters wages afforesayd to make upp the sayd sume of Fortye pounds the Full sume of Fyftie pounds All the sayd Sume to be Imployed and used for the benefit of the Schoolemaster afforesayde by the Parsonn of Stockporte the Maior of Stockport and the most Auncyent Alderman thereof for the time being . |
| 5 | Nevertheless by the beginning of September the cease-fire had taken effect . |
| 6 | As the Earl of Leicester is now dead , in whose keeping the King was by reason of the disturbance in the realm , and now by the favour of God the King is snatched out of his hands and raised again to his former estate , whereby with the common consent of the realm the King has caused all things attempted by the Earl for the diminution of the King 's right , honour and royal dignity to be revoked ; and whereas the forests north of Trent , which before the war in the time of the Earl were preserved whole and uninjured , have been disafforested and destroyed to the King 's disherison , the King commands the said Roger to re-afforest all the forests in his bailiwick as they were … before the war ; and if any part thereof ought of right to be disafforested , the King is prepared to do full justice . |
| 7 | By the middle of November the funeral service had to submit its findings and the Government would decide if these were acceptable . |
| 8 | Capetian claims to the exercise of sovereignty evoked a hostile response from the magnates , led by the duke of Aquitaine and count of Flanders , which was not to be stilled by the death of Philip the Fair in 1314 . |
| 9 | To be eligible to be purchased by the Bank of England the bills must have an underlying short-term trade finance role , as evidenced by a clause on the face of the bill , and must have been accepted by an ‘ eligible ’ bank . |
| 10 | The markka , which had been pegged to the European currency unit ( ECU ) in June [ see p. 38297 ] , had been allowed to float temporarily by the Bank of Finland the previous day , after speculative pressure had caused short-term interest rates to rise to 30 per cent and resulted in a heavy capital outflow . |
| 11 | But by the reign of Charles the Bald , while the court remained a large consumer , demand had spread more widely among the elite , and cash transactions multiplied in the countryside . |
| 12 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor , its population may have reached 2000 . |
| 13 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor royal writs were authenticated by having a two-sided seal attached . |
| 14 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 15 | If the campaign goes as well as today 's Oxford launch , by the end of February the charity should be little more than a hop , skip and a jump away from its target . |
| 16 | For all its terrifying initial impetus , by the end of February the attack had bogged down , and to a large extent of its own accord . |
| 17 | Popular unrest had begun to develop even before his death — commissions were appointed to investigate insurrections in Kent on 2 February and in Surrey on 11 April , and a London chronicle tells of the arrest and execution , at an unspecified date , of a rebel leader known as Bluebeard. ( 7 ; 22 , p.158 ) By the end of May the Kentishmen were marching on London , in June there was a skirmish with royal forces , and they presented a formal complaint of their grievances . |
| 18 | By the end of March the bulk of our winter visitors have departed . |
| 19 | By the end of March the Iraqi armed forces had suppressed the southern rebellion and had recaptured a number of northern towns from Kurdish guerrillas . |
| 20 | By the end of March the list had still not been published , although more people came forward voluntarily almost every day . |
| 21 | By the end of March the totals had reached 81,607 Germans to 89,000 French . |
| 22 | By the end of March the 15 members of the IT department at Courtaulds Fibres in Grimsby will have completed an ITED programme . |
| 23 | Apple Computer Inc on Wednesday launches its first full-function servers , and with them hopes to persuade small- and medium-size businesses to buy from it all the computer equipment they need ; the new Workgroup servers can process data up to four times faster than Quadras , and although they will support alien machines , they are designed primarily for networks consisting mainly of Macintoshes ; the Workgroup Server Models 60 and 80 cost from $3,080 to $10,000 , the high-end Model 95 at $7,600 to $13,000 ; the 95 is out by the end of April the other two this summer ; the company also has a new Release 4.0 of its AppleShare file and print sharing software , and a high-end AppleShare Pro ; the company is also launching AppleTalk Connection for MS-DOS and Windows to enable cross communications between Macintosh and MS-DOS boxes in a network . |
| 24 | By the end of April the main issue of disagreement appeared to be the choice of venue for the talks , Chissano having proposed Malawi or Zimbabwe , with the MNR insisting on a meeting in Nairobi . |
| 25 | Although by the end of April the authorities had yet to decide whether to file charges arising from the incident , both the Kennedy family and the alleged victim had employed formidable legal teams to represent their interests . |
| 26 | By the end of January the known death toll from the revolution had again been revised downwards drastically to stand at 689 . |
| 27 | By the end of January the allies claimed to have flown over 30,000 sorties . |
| 28 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 29 | By the end of October the first frosts have generally cleared away those devils , the colours are on the hill and the bellowing back in the glens . |
| 30 | Although Clinton continued to enjoy a consistent lead in the opinion polls , by the end of October the gap between the two candidates appeared to have closed sufficiently to be causing some alarm in the Democratic camp . |