Example sentences of "by a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 2 | Profits made by a parents ' association are liable to taxation , registration with the Charity Commissioners enables the association to escape tax liability . |
| 3 | Mrs Williams , 54 , is the former headmistress of St Paul 's Girls ' school in London who was forced to quit by a parents ' rebellion over an attempt to limit the number of GCSEs her girls sat . |
| 4 | ‘ Micro multimedia is multimedia supported by a microprocessor(s) . |
| 5 | She is being kneaded and punched like bread dough by a Valkyrie sporting the corporate logo tattooed on a bicep . |
| 6 | An imposing table which graced Darlington Football Club boardroom was offered for sale this week by a Quakers fan . |
| 7 | Information collected within operational systems , such as payroll , can feed into decision support systems such as are provided by a personnel data base , which in turn can be summarised for use in planning and modelling systems . |
| 8 | The enthusiasm sometimes generated by a teachers ' centre whose advisory courses are backed up by a practical service can be considerable , and most valuable . |
| 9 | For the longer term , the Secretary of State proposes to replace the Burnham Committees by a Teachers ' Negotiating Group , with central government rather than LEAs in a majority on the employers ' side . |
| 10 | TAX incentives encouraging businesses to make donations to schools have been condemned by a teachers ' leader . |
| 11 | His earnings will be doubled by a pensions package from his former employers . |
| 12 | We played two games that day at Prescott Club and we were entertained after dinner by a Fiddlers Rally — a superb day . |
| 13 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 14 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 15 | An example provided by a kachcheri mudaliyar shows that out of a crop which yielded sixty bushels of paddy , a little over eight bushels was paid for cattle hire . |
| 16 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 17 | The claim was for a conciliation board , a national minimum rate of wages , a manning scale for stokehold , deck and galley , the abolition of medical examinations by a doctors privately appointed by the Shipping Federation offices , the right of seamen to a portion of their wages while in port and to have a representative present while signing on , the fixing of working hours and overtime rates and improved forecastle accommodation . |
| 18 | A German captain , interviewed off Larak Island by a Times correspondent , acknowledged the risks involved but went on to point out that ‘ the money is good and the contract is only six months ’ . |
| 19 | Pond aeration is provided by a venturi and a bag of Clarisan is suspended over the outlet pipe to help control blanket weed . |
| 20 | This is filled with Hex-nodes , tiny clay tubes , and oxygenated by a venturi system attached to the pump which injects air into the compartment . |
| 21 | The alternative route , proposed by a consortia led by the American bank Manufacturers Hanover and the construction group Bechtel , would end at a terminal in Stratford , East London . |
| 22 | It will be divided from the gravel and undergravel filter by a 3″ tall strip of glass across the tank . |
| 23 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 24 | Also from the Acropolis come fragments of a large plaque dedicated to Athena by a Polias . |
| 25 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 26 | These are likely to be more important in rural than in urban areas ( Stanyer 1975 ) but Green himself once obtained 773 votes as an independent candidate supported by a residents ’ association in a ward election in Sheffield ( Hampton 1970:291 ) . |
| 27 | This designation was not without its local hostility ; the validity of the designation order was challenged by a residents ' protection society and the High Court held in favour of the objectors . |
| 28 | The report was submitted in March 1991 , but was only made public last month after its discovery in the Department of Environment 's library by a Friends of the Earth researcher . |
| 29 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 30 | Aminoacids were analysed by a BAS 200A ternary gradient high performance liquid chromatography system ( Bioanalytical Systems Inc. , West Lafayette , IN , USA ) with a CMA200 autoinjector ( Carnegie Medicin , Stockholm , Sweden ) . |