Example sentences of "by [noun prp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOR THE first time in three years Steffi Graf was yesterday reminded what it feels like to leave a tournament a quarter-final loser when West Germany were beaten 2-1 by Czechoslovakia in the Federation Cup here . |
| 2 | It could be said that the We/ Us/Our form is rather a mode of self-description when the poet wishes to present his beloved and himself to the world ( as shown by Donne in the Songs and Sonnets ) , and that Shakespeare prefers to keep the relationship on an interpersonal level . |
| 3 | It is certainly the case that the idea that existence is not a predicate , a quality of things such as blueness or hardness , was clearly recognised in classical philosophy long before it was taken up by Kant in the eighteenth century and further refined by Bertrand Russell in the twentieth . |
| 4 | The core of morality was seen by Kant in the ‘ categorical imperative ’ , the unconditional demand upon us to do what is right for its own sake . |
| 5 | The first of these contains details on 61 surveys conducted by SCPR over the past six years : a total of about 3,000 interviewer assignments . |
| 6 | When the concept was first introduced by Faraday in the fourth decade of the nineteenth century it was very vague , and was articulated with the aid of mechanical analogies and a metaphorical use of terms such as ‘ tension ’ , ‘ power ’ and ‘ force ’ . |
| 7 | He pushed open the door and , as he put his foot on the first step , experienced a revelation comparable to that undergone by Newton in the orchard or Archimedes in his bath . |
| 8 | For these reasons , they were the first to have theories developed for them : gravity by Newton in the seventeenth century , and electromagnetism by Maxwell in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | The result is a broad comedy directed at a fast lick by Murray on a marvellously cluttered set by Simon Higlett in a Manchester Royal Exchange production . |
| 10 | A similar distortion is imposed by Christie on the ‘ Judex crederis ’ , where the vocal utterances are at half the tempo of the ‘ fanfares ’ , the whole being preceded by another enormous rallentando for ‘ Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes ’ . |
| 11 | Tony Dodemaide , 28 , the Victoria and Australia allrounder released by Sussex at the end of last season , is to play for Lancashire League club East Lancashire in 1992 . |
| 12 | Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century . |
| 13 | The authoritative review of the theoretical and empirical literature from a number of countries conducted by Godfrey for the OECD concluded that all the various methods used to measure the incentive/disincentive effects ‘ indicate that taxation does not have a large and significant effect in the total supply of work effort and that , in particular , the net effect on the labour supply of male family heads is likely to be very small ’ . |
| 14 | If Wishart stayed the night at Hamilton Terrace his cup of tea the next morning was laced by Minton with the dregs from the night before . |
| 15 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 16 | The decision to relinquish the lease may have been forced upon them : story has it that their landlord , Colonel Lindsay , had been angered by tales of a young man spitting out of a window into a frying pan held by Minton in the garden below . |
| 17 | The technology for a reed bed was pioneered in Germany 20 years ago , and has been perfected by ICI over the last two years . |
| 18 | Dick Lindsell sums up a notable achievement in this way : ‘ C&P having been conveived and put into motion by ICI in a move which some saw as defensive , I believe that we are now increasingly demonstrating that we are as attractive as other ICI businesses . |
| 19 | Many of them were first made by ICI in the Oil works at Billingham , and predate the birth of the modern petrochemicals industry . |
| 20 | Catalysts are produced by ICI in the UK , in the USA and in India . |
| 21 | The demerger plan seems to mark a decisive turning-away by ICI from the idea , tenaciously held by all the chemicals conglomerates in the past , that a vast and variegated collection of chemicals businesses promotes synergy . |
| 22 | The population figures estimated by Dolgikh on the basis of this survey have become widely accepted in the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | Three drivers were named by McLaren before the season got under way at Kyalami in South Africa — . |
| 24 | This puzzle was highlighted by Frenk at the UK National Astronomy Meeting , in Leicester last month in a paper discussing what he termed the ‘ baryon catastrophe ’ for the Coma cluster . |
| 25 | The most important dream-book of this sort was the compilation made by Artemidorus in the second century AD , taking material from Middle Eastern , Greek and North African sources . |
| 26 | He seemed to have cracked bones complaining all over his body , and when they stopped at night he ate , stayed by Madra for a while , and usually fell asleep beside her . |
| 27 | Nicandra was pleased with her own plateful of roast chicken , helped by Twomey at the side table — pleased with everything except the spinach . |
| 28 | An example of such a computerized search aid is the CONIT — COnnector for Network Information Transfer developed by Marcus at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems , MIT . |
| 29 | This included Phil Morris , who had been apprenticed to a graphics printer for four years when he joined the company and who was immediately sent by Bernard on a further course in fabric processing . |
| 30 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |