The phrase "ballroom by" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when describing a location or event that is happening in or associated with a ballroom. Example: "The elegant ballroom by the sea was the perfect setting for their wedding reception."
We sneaked out of the ballroom by a side exit so no one would notice.
She discovered the ballroom by digging through the archives at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
I first heard it as a sample on a track called "Seashore (Sprinkles' Ambient Ballroom)," by the electronic musician DJ Sprinkles.
The mayor drew knowing laughter from the 900-strong crowd at the Fairmont Chicago's ballroom by quickly correcting himself: "I was campaigning and Juan was touring.
Four years later, the Rev. Calvin O. Butts III, the pastor of the church, told The New York Times that he expected to start the restoration of the ballroom by the end of 1995.
"Don't you think black and purple and green look just great?" Dr. Dean asked, as hoots and hollers filtered in from the hundreds in the hotel hallway who had been barred from the ballroom by fire marshals.
These songs are "Radar Love" by Golden Earring, but covered by White Lion and "Ballroom Blitz" by Sweet and covered by Krokus.
Members of the city's moneyed class report attending movie screenings in the theater and eating dinners in the grand ballroom, served by a staff trained by the luxury Oberoi hotel chain.
There is ballroom dance by Gary Pierce, Broadway dance from Bill Hastings, jazz dance by Mia Michaels and modern dance by Mr. Thomas, Zvi Gotheiner, Dwight Rhoden and Ulysses Dove, who will be represented by excerpts from "Episodes".
Instead, during dinner, a pre-recorded male voice announced the categories ("And now the Pollie Awards for automated phone calls") and the winners' names flashed by on large screens at the front of the ballroom, accompanied by easy-listening saxophone music.
What's fascinating about "Born Rich," then, is that it wasn't made by some professional documentarian -- as was last year's "The Hamptons," directed by Barbara Kopple -- or by a voyeur hiding in the bushes outside the ballroom, but by a member of the very group under scrutiny, Jamie Johnson, a 23-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson fortune.
