Example sentences of "by [art] [noun sg] of [noun] 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 | Led by the Head of Preservation the Preservation Division is primarily responsible for protecting and prolonging the life of the collections . |
| 3 | By the order of words the poet even hints that Thessaly is more fortunate than her sister Sparta . |
| 4 | A general armistice was signed on 4 December and by the treaty of Brest-Litovsk the war was brought to an end . |
| 5 | By the law of defamation the publisher of an untrue statement which brings the subject into ‘ hatred , ridicule or contempt ’ may have to pay damages . |
| 6 | By the poetry of history the crown of the British sovereign , who ceased to rule in all but name in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution of 1688 , is the only one of consequence , the papal tiara aside , still used in the rite of coronation . |
| 7 | In the provinces most affected by the wave of prosperity the number of cattle thefts reported in 1898 — 9 was twenty-seven per cent less than in 1897 and 1900 ( Table 3.4 ) . |
| 8 | I hear from two of my friends that they were likewise inspired and helped by the Mass of Christ the King ’ . |
| 9 | " 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 . |
| 10 | Nevertheless by the beginning of September the cease-fire had taken effect . |
| 11 | By the eve of congress the vote seemed a foregone conclusion : |
| 12 | By the way of contrast The Independent , building up a composite Independent person from figures supplied by the same research company ( TGI ) , announced that 23.9% of Independent readers have a household income exceeding £25,000 , 44.2% of them own a car , 31.4% own stocks and shares , 9% play cricket , 71.9% bought records in the last year and in the same period 51.2% purchased at least one pair of sports shoes while 14% spent over £50 in garden centres . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | By the middle of November the funeral service had to submit its findings and the Government would decide if these were acceptable . |
| 15 | Children are influenced most by example and by the kind of person the step-parent is . ’ |
| 16 | Sometimes samples are taken of the natural life found in stream beds to construct a biotic index of the watercourse which will indicate its cleanliness by the kind of life the water will support . |
| 17 | By the process of psychology the subject is all too often bound to the negative events in their lives and focuses on the negative results in their personality . |
| 18 | By the process of objectification the ‘ invisible ’ becomes ‘ perceptible ’ ( Farr , 1984 : 386 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | According to an assessment commissioned by the Department of Energy the cost of the support structure alone for one offshore wind turbine ( excluding the turbine ) would be £3 million while one machine would cost £34,000 per year to maintain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor , its population may have reached 2000 . |
| 25 | By the reign of Edward the Confessor royal writs were authenticated by having a two-sided seal attached . |
| 26 | ‘ As there are but few persons who love to meditate upon scenes of death , and too many are only able to view the gloomy side of them , instead of following by the eye of faith the glorious progress of the departing saint , I will hasten to end of my story . ’ |
| 27 | Following the bill 's approval by the House of Representatives the Senate delayed its consideration of the issue pending the outcome of the negotiations between Danforth and the Bush administration . |
| 28 | She was saddened by the number of times the man must have asked this question . |
| 29 | Another suggestion is that they were put there by shepherds so that they could find their way off the fell in bad weather , the idea being that by the number of cairns the shepherds would be able to tell where they were and by the pattern they could know which direction to follow . |
| 30 | In order to estimate the level of violence an average woman would experience in the course of her life , this figure would need to be multiplied by the number of years the average woman lives . |