Example sentences of "by a [noun] [unc] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A 35-year-old woman struck by a joyrider 's car in west Belfast was today in a critical condition in hospital . |
| 2 | The Chartist , William Lovett , quotes with approval a description , written by a labourer 's son in 1840 , of the cottage of a ( symbolic ? ) |
| 3 | It featured a Carolyn no less real than herself : her double , her living image , separated from her only by a second 's timing in a rainsoaked dash across Leap Lane . |
| 4 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 5 | It is difficult to say whether or not a transfer of a house by the husband to the wife in , for instance , a " clean break " is " less in money or money 's worth than the value in money or money 's worth of the consideration provided " ( s339(3) ( c ) ) so there is always a risk that a conveyance or transfer following the court order or agreement may be attacked by a husband 's trustee in bankruptcy and the wife can not be absolutely safe until the five year period has expired . |
| 6 | Six weeks later , on 23rd October 1916 , he was killed , shot through the head by a sniper 's bullet in one of the endless and inglorious messes on the river Somme . |