Example sentences of "the [num ord] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 2 | Brian Harley had made his one mistake at the sixteenth by finding both a fairway bunker and one by the green and was still standing at four under . |
| 3 | And it was of no help to the Scottish Protestants that on 8 August , in the instructions given to that experienced diplomat of the 1540s , Sir Ralph Sadler , now sent north to make a comeback in the Scottish political scene , the English were encouraging the idea of being anti-French and anticipating their outspoken memorandum of the 31st by warbling about the need for government by someone of the blood of Scotland . |
| 4 | The first lesson was read by the Duke of Edinburgh , the Captain-General of the Royal Marines , and the second by Admiral Sir Julian Oswald , First Sea Lord . |
| 5 | In the first place by virtue of the ‘ goodness ’ of the evolutionary process , and in the second by virtue of man 's own efforts to contribute . |
| 6 | These Acts make provision for two types of surrogacy , the first by a regent , the second by counsellors of state . |
| 7 | He answers the first question by reference to the ‘ harm to interests ’ theory , and the second by requiring a choice to incur the legal duty . |
| 8 | The first is dominated by the four generations of the patriarchs — Abraham , Isaac , Jacob and Joseph ( Genesis 12–50 ) ; the second by the majestic figure of Moses ( Exodus-Deuteronomy ) . |
| 9 | As Figure 2.6 indicates , he argues that the first Kondratiev wave was dominated by Lancashire , Shropshire and the Black Country , the second by South Wales and the North East , and the third and fourth waves by the West Midlands and Greater London ( Hall , 1985 ) . |
| 10 | Within it lie circumpolar continental , maritime and periantarctic zones , the first bounded by the 0°C summer isotherm , the second by the northern limit of pack ice . |
| 11 | But the accompanying instruments are constantly varied , and the groups which play introductory sinfonie to the intermedii or double the voices in the madrigals are impressive : Malvezzi 's madrigal ‘ Noi che cantando ’ in the first intermedio is sung by two choirs , the first doubled by lyre , harp , large lute , and ‘ sotto Basso di Viola ’ , the second by lyre , harp , chitarrone , and ‘ Basso di Viola ’ , while in the six-part sinfonia which follows these instruments are joined by 6 lutes ( three large and three small ) , psaltery , ‘ Basso di Viola ’ with three tenor viols , 4 trombones , cornetto , flauto traverso , cetera ( cittern ) , mandola , and a ‘ Sopranino di Viola ’ ( which was played by Striggio ) . |
| 12 | The first is by a viewer inexperienced in looking at art ; the second by an individual with a wide interest and education in the area . |
| 13 | His resignation , the second by a senior member of the administration within a month , followed that of Elizabeth Dole , the Secretary of Labour , and fuelled speculation of an imminent Cabinet reshuffle by President George Bush . |
| 14 | Chidambaram 's resignation , the second by a member of the current Council of Ministers [ see p. 38813 ] , prompted the government to respond to calls by opposition parties for a full inquiry into the scandal by announcing the establishment on July 9 of a joint parliamentary committee . |
| 15 | For paired staining of CD68 and HLA-DR the first marker was seen by biotinylated goat anti-mouse IgG1 and Streptavidin Texas Red , and the second by FITC conjugated goat anti-mouse IgG2a ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | The following reductions are applied iteratively until there are only two vertices , one defined by the start of the first word in the utterance , the second by the end of the last word . |
| 17 | If the donor dies more than seven years after the gift , there 's no duty at all payable If he dies in the seventh year the whole duty is reduced by 60 per cent , if in the sixth by 30 per cent , and in the fifth 15 per cent . ’ |
| 18 | Two fights later , he was stopped in the sixth by Tyson , whom he had helped prepare for several fights as a sparring partner . |
| 19 | Two tries , the first in under two minutes by Simon Holmes and the fourth by the hooker John Ashworth , were from alert attention to the ball at their own throw-in near their own line . |
| 20 | India 's fortunes changed dramatically as they won the next two Tests by large margins ; the third by 222 runs ( Chandrasekhar distinguishing himself with 6 for 52 in each innings with the ball and 0 in each innings with the bat ) , and the fourth by an innings and two runs . |
| 21 | His visit is the first by a Soviet defence minister to the US . |
| 22 | Both are now due to be replaced , the first by a lighter touch Independent Television Commission , the other by a new Broadcasting Bill that will be far more permissive . |
| 23 | He tackled the first by systematically awarding government contracts to northern businessmen ( former traders ) from his own area of Garoua and the second by insisting that schools and the civil service must be bilingual , a policy which has been extremely successful . |
| 24 | Lyle 's Open was the first by a Briton since Jacklin in 1969 . |
| 25 | His conviction ends the 3.5-year investigation into Vernon Savings , one of the first by the federal bank-fraud taskforce . |
| 26 | He is expected to use his address to the Diet ( parliament ) during his visit — the first by a Soviet head of state — to try to get a commitment from both the Japanese government and its businessmen to back a hoary old proposal : the formation of an economic group among the countries surrounding the Japan Sea , that is , the Soviet Union , the two Koreas and Japan . |
| 27 | Both arguments failed with the Court responding to the first by holding that the existing notification procedures were enough , there being no need for mandatory notification in all cases : |
| 28 | These Acts make provision for two types of surrogacy , the first by a regent , the second by counsellors of state . |
| 29 | In May 1968 , Charles de Gaulle paid a state visit to Romania , the first by a Western leader . |
| 30 | The Treaty of Berlin partially settled the first by handing out bits of Turkish territory to the powers mainly concerned ; Russia was allowed Bessarabia and some of Asian Turkey , Great Britain obtained a lease of Cyprus , and the Dual Monarchy was allowed to occupy and administer the Turkish provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovina and to garrison the Sanjak of Novi Bazar . |