Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [adv] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fact that the regime has so quickly and so completely imploded in East Germany could risk a reunification of Germany almost by default before long , ’ one diplomat said . |
| 2 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 3 | I have not worked out the exact link but the motto on all silver is same and ditto some old aunts in the west of Ireland perhaps by now dead ) . |
| 4 | ITALIAN Michele Bartoli clinched victory in the six-day Tour of Sicily yesterday by winning the 187.5km final stage in 4hr 33min 47sec . |
| 5 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 6 | I think it is clear that , despite the obscure wording of section 8(2) of the Act of 1986 , Winchester and firms in its position are not , and were not , members of Lautro either by reason of actual membership or by reason of the statutory definition . |
| 7 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |
| 8 | West German electors recognize the propriety of indirect election justified by votes given to parties , and might well be surprised that political figures as eminent as Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell could be excluded from the House of Commons simply by the say-so of voters in Cambridge , Glasgow Hillhead and Down South . |
| 9 | Among these are the St Paul by d'Arpino , The Sacrifice in the Temple and The Building of the Temple of Solomon both by F. Bassano , J. Bassano 's Noah 's Ark , Tintoretto 's Flagellation of Christ and an Adoration by Veronese . |
| 10 | A 77-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed at knifepoint in her home in the Mosspark area of Glasgow yesterday by a masked man . |
| 11 | The fired foreign editor of the Daily Mirror , Nick Davies , launched his biography of Maxwell yesterday by fuelling speculation Maxwell had committed suicide . |
| 12 | DAVID Rocastle aims to get off to a flier with Leeds today by chalking up a hat-trick in the Makita Tournament . |
| 13 | On March 10 the Hungarian Foreign Minister , Gyula Horn , and his Soviet counterpart , Eduard Shevardnadze , signed a similar agreement in Moscow , providing for the withdrawal of all 49,700 Soviet troops from Hungary also by July 1991 , with two-thirds of the troops and equipment due to be removed by the end of 1990 . |
| 14 | Distinguished from Skylark chiefly by longer crest being always erect and conspicuous , and buff instead of white outer feathers in shorter tail ; also in flight by orange-buff patch on underwing . |
| 15 | It was , after all , accepted by Mr Milosevic and at least signed in Athens even by Mr Karadzic . |
| 16 | FORMER world snooker champion Steve Davis was dumped from the Dubai Duty Free Classic in Blackpool yesterday by Wayne Jones . |
| 17 | Leaders of the Moslem organization — the NPA 's main rival as a source of armed insurgency against the Philippine state — rejected the offer on the grounds that the government could end the conflict in Mindanao simply by implementing the terms of the 1976 Tripoli Accord [ see p. 28440 ] . |
| 18 | Otherwise suppose b is a root of f in J. Then by 1.11.3 we may write f = ( x-b ) m where by exercise 1.9.9 deg m = k exactly . |
| 19 | HONG KONG — More than 3,000 people marked the 40th anniversary of Communist rule in China yesterday by rallying to protest against the suppression of the pro-democracy movement in Peking , AP reports . |
| 20 | Proof ( Briefly ) We are given that b — a and c are both in N. Hence by axiom P(ii) ( b-a ) c ε N. It follows * that bc — ac ε N , that is |
| 21 | Here the men who streamed into the new ‘ self-improvement ’ associations ( Bildungsvereine ) in the 1860s — there were 1,000 such clubs in 1863 , no less than 2,000 in Bavaria alone by 1872 — rapidly drifted away from the middle-class liberalism of these bodies , though perhaps not sufficiently from the middle-class culture they inculcated . |
| 22 | Grote 's collection is rivalled in Britain only by Windsor and the British Museum and includes fine prints by Dürer and Cranach . |
| 23 | But religious music was composed in France largely by Huguenots and therefore limited to little other than psalms . |
| 24 | From April to November government-UNITA talks were held in Portugal , joined from September onwards by Soviet and United States advisors [ see pp. 36365 ; 37702 ; 37842 ] . |
| 25 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 26 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 27 | A ‘ DYNAMIC new image ’ for Mayfest , as it enters its second decade , was unveiled in Glasgow yesterday by its director , Robert Robson . |
| 28 | The concern was highlighted in Glasgow yesterday by Gary Kenny , a safety specialist with Cremer & Warner , who was a member of the Piper Alpha inquiry team . |
| 29 | Easily told from all other seabirds by unique bill , flattened in vertical plane , and from Guillemot also by white line on bill and in summer also on face . |
| 30 | A CENTRE aiming to promote the European Community 's research and technological development programme across Scotland and the north of England was launched in Edinburgh yesterday by the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , seen here taking a well-deserved break during proceedings . |