Example sentences of "an [noun sg] of [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ramsey was sure that this was a first in history ; the settlement of the choice of an Archbishop of Canterbury by telephone . |
| 2 | An esacerbation of symptoms by eating was comparably frequent in patients whose dietary energy intakes were high ( 12.9% ) and low or appropriate ( 15.5% , p= 0.3537 ) in respect of their physical activity . |
| 3 | The High Court confirmed an award of penalties by the General Commissioners against a taxpayer for failing to provide the information required by a precept in Stoll v High Wycombe General Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 212 . |
| 4 | Kahnweiler in Der Weg zum Kubismus is probably echoing conversations with Braque when he writes : ‘ Representation of the position of objects in space is done as follows : instead of beginning from a supposed foreground and going on from there to give an illusion of depth by means of perspective , the painter begins from a definite and clearly defined background . |
| 5 | Experiments typically start with the excitation of an ensemble of molecules by a femtosecond laser pulse . |
| 6 | Answer guide : The first part is straightforward as this is an injection of capital by the owner where the amount is certain . |
| 7 | The Universiade GB board also announced that the immediate cash-flow problems , revealed a week ago , had now been resolved by an injection of funds by Sheffield City Council and that further offers of financial support are to be followed up immediately . |
| 8 | Over 300 paintings are expected for the open competition and there will also be painting demonstrations , displays by art suppliers as well as an auction of paintings by well-known artists . |
| 9 | I look upon it as an act of spite by Durham County Council ‘ You stopped our inner ring road scheme . |
| 10 | For Hobbes , legitimate authority derived only from an act of will by the person under an obligation . |
| 11 | The British State has never had a formal foundation in the aftermath of revolution or war , or as the result of an act of will by an enlightened despot . |
| 12 | On 21 September 1982 the husband committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice and on 20 December a bankruptcy petition was presented . |
| 13 | On 21 September 1982 Mr. Dennis committed an act of bankruptcy by failing to comply with the requirements of a bankruptcy notice . |
| 14 | The fact remains , and will become more and more evident as the year goes by , that the deliberate under-funding of the Act was an act of incompetence by incompetent ministers . |
| 15 | Mr Ramaphosa said that the prisoners ' release should not be construed as an act of goodwill by Mr de Klerk , but as a reflection of the ‘ dismal ’ failure of ‘ the apartheid regime ’ to emasculate the will of the black majority . |
| 16 | Indira Gandhi 's assassination was itself an act of revenge by her Sikh bodyguards , after hundreds of Sikhs were killed during the clearing of extremists from their Golden Temple in Amritsar . |
| 17 | In the Gospel faith is seen as an act of trust by which a person relies not on himself or herself but on Jesus . |
| 18 | Revolution is insurrection , an act of violence by which one caste overthrows another . |
| 19 | It was rare for mothers not to respond when they observed an act of helpfulness by their child . |
| 20 | As John Blair says for Lewes , ‘ the creation of a group of holdings within a convenient radius and accessible from one manorial centre must have been an act of policy by the priory or its patrons ’ . |
| 21 | The naming from the dock of John Cameron ( alias Sergeant Mor ) , a vindictive Jacobite soldier of fortune , can not be written off as an act of desperation by James Stewart , who was promptly marked out as accessory once the actual murder occurred in Appin . |
| 22 | An Act of Terror by André Brink ( Secker , £14.99 ) . |
| 23 | Louis XVIII , another restored monarch , accepted a constitution in 1814 on condition that the constitution was reasonably ‘ balanced ’ and was seen as an act of grace by the crown and not as an imposition upon it . |
| 24 | The connoisseurship demonstrated in these two examples is built up from an accumulation of work by many scholars , but in the end , the cataloguer has to make a judgement , which for number 291 is in favour of Cranach 's authorship . |
| 25 | The Parliamentary Ombudsman was the first to be created in Britain in 1967 after a series of incidents highlighted how powerless people were against an abuse of power by central government . |
| 26 | Although the call to the Bar is an exercise of power by the individual Inn it is an exercise of power permitted by the judges and exercised under their supervision . |
| 27 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 28 | Netwise 's European general manager , Rob Rietveld , said last week ‘ this was an error of judgement by the company . |
| 29 | Netwise 's European general manager , Rob Rietveld , said last week ‘ this was an error of judgement by the company . |
| 30 | LONG ago , said Signals ( Channel 4 ) in a nice , pouring-cream sort of voice-over ‘ in an almost forgotten time , even before Morecambe and Wise and the James Bond movie on TV , for many people Christmas entertainment meant an evening of storytelling by the light of a log fire . ’ |