Example sentences of "[noun] of [noun prp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In pursuit of diplomatic support , Baker met Chinese Foreign Minister Qian Qichen at the UN in New York on Nov. 28 and invited him to Washington , effectively ending the diplomatic isolation of China by the USA in force since the June 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 2 | Quietly , amid the fall-out of Saturday 's defeat of Wales by the All Blacks , the Welsh Rugby Union and the Merit Table organisation meet on Monday night to discuss the issue . |
| 3 | The great days of the Macedonian Church culminated in the creation of the patriarchate of Ohrid in 976 , during the reign of Tsar Samuel ( Samuilo ) , but the whole picture changed after the defeat of Samuel by the Byzantine emperor , Basil II , in 1014 . |
| 4 | In about February 1991 Mr. Mahdi had been proclaimed President of Somalia by the U.S.C. It was not clear on what basis such an assumption of office could be made and it was not accepted by the other clans . |
| 5 | The exhibition is intended to underline the long term commitment to the study of Ruskin by the university 's Ruskin Programme , a research group made up of scholars from different disciplines in the humanities . |
| 6 | THE INSTALLATION OF THE MAYOR OF RIPON BY THE DEAN ( Page 51 ) |
| 7 | Thomas son of Adam , who had held the manor of Hutton-in-the-Forest by the serjeanty of keeping the king 's hay of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest , had by 1244 alienated the manor entirely to several tenants . |
| 8 | Similarly , the plundering of Wales by the Foreigners ( i.e. Scandinavians ) of Dublin and the English , recorded by the Irish Annals of Tigernach under 1030 , may have been a joint expedition , and there is a faint possibility that Dublin 's first bishop was consecrated by Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury in Cnut 's time , with whatever implications that might or might not have . |
| 9 | Eighty or so acres of Midshire by the river Comer , close by the border of Wales . |
| 10 | Though put beautifully into the mouth of Hannah by the storyteller , it did not have its origins with her , but , to judge from its mention of the king at the end , must have been composed for national celebration at some point during the time of the monarchy . |
| 11 | The acquisition of the sacred relic of the blood of Christ by the important monastery of Reichenau ( on Lake Constance ) in the 920s , its veneration there , and Otto I 's associating himself with that veneration , is an example of this religious feeling . |
| 12 | But the Allies had been driven back to the borders of India by the initial Japanese offensive . |
| 13 | The most dramatic evidence of this was the ‘ Battle of Cable Street ’ on Sunday 4 October 1936 , when a march through the East End of London by the fascists prompted an anti-fascist demonstration , violence , and the injury of seventy people and eighty-eight arrests , eighty-three of whom were anti-fascists . |
| 14 | By mid-August boats carrying more than 1,200 Vietnamese were reported to have been forcibly towed out to international waters in the direction of Indonesia by the Malaysian Navy . |
| 15 | The U-boat activity and the occupation of part of France by the enemy were responsible for the food shortages , which sent prices soaring . |
| 16 | Not surprisingly they noticed the sack of Rome by the Gauls , because Massalia could not overlook such a movement of Celtic populations and because the invaders were a danger to Magna Graecia too , besides being used by Dionysius I as mercenaries . |
| 17 | The first event of Roman history contemporary Greeks witnessed with interest , and perhaps with apprehension , was the sack of Rome by the Gauls . |
| 18 | Though the sack of Delphi by the Celts is a legend , Apollo 's city had been in actual danger of being sacked . |
| 19 | The Gospels date from the period after the Jewish revolt of A.D. 66 and the sack of Jerusalem by the Romans in A.D. 70 . |
| 20 | However , if theoretical physicists can prove the existence of God by the use of mathematics , I can almost certainly prove that she 's not Nick and his Cave by the same means . |
| 21 | What with the flower sellers and the blind musician , the old man at his sewing machine , the two sisters selling maps of Delhi by the roadside and two others collecting camel dung for fuel the sights and sound if not the actual smell came flooding back , even though it 's 40 years since I was last there . |
| 22 | The main novelty this year is the British premier of Mannekins by the Polish composer Zbigniew Rudzinski . |
| 23 | Gail , 25 who works in Human Resources at risley and hubby Mark will be enjoying the £250 , two-night holiday at one of Lancaster 's top hotels , Lancaster House , plus tickets to the outdoor performance of the wizard of Oz by the Duke 's Theatre company . |
| 24 | Accordingly the issue in the case was whether the removal of Bury by the visitor was valid or not . |
| 25 | PROPERTY CHAIR : A new Chair in Property Development and Asset Management is to be sponsored in the Department of Surveying at the University of Salford by the RICS North West University Trust . |
| 26 | The Industrial Relations Research Unit was established at the University of Warwick by the Social Science Research Council in 1970 : its purpose to undertake research of a large-scale , long-term multidisciplinary character . |
| 27 | Pretender Charles attempted to enter England in 1744 , and succeeded in landing in Scotland the following year but , after initial successes in Scotland as ‘ Bonnie Prince Charles ’ — the grandson of James II — he suffered a terrible defeat at Culloden in 1746 and that was followed by the imposition of a ruthless repression in the Highlands of Scotland by the favourite son of King George II , the Duke of Cumberland . |
| 28 | In the aftermath of the battle Beaumont was apparently made both Earl of Moray and constable of Scotland by the new king . |
| 29 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 30 | Maybe you want to be cautious , knowing that to try and do a work of God by the flesh is to court disaster and possibly a nervous breakdown for good measure . |