Which preposition to use with complements

of Occurrences 128%

Her complement of boats was ample enough.

to Occurrences 24%

And Cynthia, in her fragile appealing prettiness, was a delicious foil, a perfect complement to the picture.

in Occurrences 7%

It is thus evident that the beauty of the internal mechanism of the eye has its fitting complement in the precision, delicacy, and range of movement conferred upon it by its muscles.

from Occurrences 3%

He represents the sultan as residing in Bablyon, and blunders into pedantic confusion between Babylon in Egypt, and Babylon in Chaldea, all of which is probably an injudicious complement from books common at the time.

for Occurrences 2%

But they would be manned in ordinary, with only their complement for navigation, relying on the seamen and militia of the port if called into action on any sudden emergency.

Over Occurrences 2%

Second reader study book to complement Over a city bridge.

Around Occurrences 2%

First reader study book to complement Around green hills.

with Occurrences 1%

The silly countryman who, seeing an ape in a scarlet coat, blessed his young worship, and gave his landlord joy of the hopes of his house, did not slander his complement with worse application than he that names this shred an historian.

by Occurrences 1%

"My mates have not yet joined me, and I am short of my complement by two good hands.

out Occurrences 1%

"I give up," says he, "Gallia Togata; I demand Gallia Comata"he evidently wishes to be quite at his ease'with six legions, and those made up to their full complement out of the army of Decimus Brutus,not only out of the troops whom he has enlisted himself; "and he is to keep possession of it as long as Marcus Brutus and Carus Cassius, as consuls, or as proconsuls, keep possession of their provinces."

after Occurrences 1%

How fearfully the senate in particular was thinned, is shown by the filling up of its complement after the battle of Cannae, when it had been reduced to 123 persons, and was with difficulty restored to its normal state by an extraordinary nomination of 177 senators.

Which preposition to use with  complements