Example sentences of "[noun] ['s] [noun] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Patron and his wife attended Congress and were enthusiastically received as the gain in the Association 's status by the patronage of this distinguished Peer was appreciated by everybody present . |
| 2 | The couple , on the last night of their four-day official tour of the country , were driven to Sejong Cultural Centre in an armoured stretched Cadillac to watch a performance of Delibe 's Coppelia by the Scottish Ballet , which is on a Far East tour . |
| 3 | The row followed hard on the heels of Tuesday 's criticism by the Members ' Interests Select Committee that Mr Gummer should have declared work paid for by a giant food company to restore a pond at his Suffolk home . |
| 4 | From 1907 to 1943 , the Sarah Kay , a 35-ft sailing/rowing lifeboat , was stationed as Dunbar No. 2 at a lifeboat shed next door to Olive Walker 's house by the shore at Skateraw . |
| 5 | The common law liability has been modified in respect of fires spreading from the defendant 's land by the Fires Prevention ( Metropolis ) Act 1774 , which provides that no action shall be maintainable against anyone in whose building or on whose estate a fire shall accidentally begin . |
| 6 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 7 | Corrupted to Pishpek in the 19th century following Kirghizia 's conquest by the Uzbek Khanate of Kokand , the name had been changed in 1926 in honour of Mikhail Frunze , a Bolshevik military commander and native of the city who had established Soviet rule in Central Asia . |
| 8 | Unless there are good and generally agreed reasons for doing otherwise , the rule which readily minimises conflict is simply to decrease each department 's budget by the same percentage . |
| 9 | Has any pressure been brought on Her Majesty 's Government by the Chinese , the butchers of Tiananmen square , to expedite the return of , or to remove any rights from , those refugees ? |
| 10 | Lewenthal 's and Danon 's performances , now ( my goodness ! ) thirty years old , were recorded in the teeth of the dehaut-enbas prejudice of the day and , although their earnest approach loses a little spontaneity in the making of their point , they must have taken some of Gershwin 's critics by the scruff of their ears . |
| 11 | I was pushed in the Bradford TEC 's direction by the local Chamber of Commerce . |
| 12 | This was the first of a series of amateur performances of adaptations of Hardy 's novels by the Dorchester Debating and Dramatic Society . |
| 13 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 14 | Fear of being ousted from Edward 's entourage by the king 's Poitevin half-brothers perhaps gave him a personal interest in the political upheaval of 1258 , which began with the half-brothers ' expulsion from England . |
| 15 | He stepped towards Chant , and at Dowd 's order one of the voiders raised Chant 's head by the hair . |
| 16 | It was a northern servant of the duke , John Nesfield , whom More credits with stage-managing Richard 's acclamation by the citizens of London . |
| 17 | It was a northern servant of the duke , John Nesfield , whom More credits with stage-managing Richard 's acclamation by the citizens of London . |
| 18 | Penda and his allies had left Oswiu 's territory by the time Oswiu , with his son , Ealhfrith , and a much smaller force , according to Bede , caught up with them . |
| 19 | Coventry manager Gould was advised by West Brom chairman Trevor Summers not to go because police feared a fans ' backlash after Gould 's sacking by the club last season . |
| 20 | Following an address on July 6 to the Council 's Assembly by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , the first by an East European leader ( see pp. 36821-22 ) , the Council and the Soviet Union set up a joint working group to develop contacts and co-operation which met in September and October . |
| 21 | The increased misuse of solvents had been brought to Wirral Council 's attention by the Chief Constable of Merseyside in December 1982 . |
| 22 | Lenin was very conscious of Marx 's warning that each war contains within it the seeds of a fresh war , an observation amply born out by the conflicts between France and Prussia-Germany in Marx 's lifetime and in Lenin 's time by the First World War . |
| 23 | The notice was off Frank 's door by the time he was able to move about again and the door itself was open . |
| 24 | I say astride , because this ridge , officially called Black Hill but known as the Cat 's Back by the locals , is truly a razorback , narrowing to a foot or so wide in places . |
| 25 | To gather signatures for the petition was a formidable task indeed , because it had to be back in Helen Martini 's hands by the following Thursday , so she could present it to No. 10 Downing Street on Friday 15 March . |
| 26 | Dowdeswell was elected as Tolba 's successor by the UN General Assembly in December . |
| 27 | Despite a call for Mr Salmond 's resignation by the Mossend branch in Lanarkshire , the SNP council group backed Mr Salmond and his SNP colleagues at Westminster in a weekend vote . |
| 28 | When told of Cavaletti 's initiative by the Italian embassy in Salamanca , Franco reacted favourably at first , but later began to raise objections . |
| 29 | In retrospect , this may have been a deliberate gimmick as she so embarrassingly outclassed the first half 's performances by The Bruvvers , Chris Montez , Len Barry and Johnny Tillotson . |
| 30 | ‘ A week later , while employed as a servant to Canon Wheeler , I … the dog … my … the arm of the corpse of Paul , of the priest , was brought into Canon Wheeler 's kitchen by the black dog . ’ |