Example sentences of "[noun] [adj] a [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was that during the dispute of 14 June to 5 August 1911 , Wilson undercut an agreement which he had made with the Clyde shipowners for a minimum of £pound5 10s a month by " temporarily patching up his bitter quarrel with the Shipping Federation and simultaneously accepting an all-round payment of £pound5 a month " which the shipowners were eventually forced to increase to the Glasgow level as standard . |
| 2 | World Bank officials said that the Bank expected to be making loan commitments of US$4,500 million to $5,000 million a year by the middle of 1994 to former Soviet republics . |
| 3 | On December 31st a plan by British Airways and Holland 's KLM to take a 20% stake each in Belgium 's Sabena , and then to develop Zaventem airport in Brussels as a European hub , was abandoned . |
| 4 | On July 26 a demonstration by about 10,000 people led by students from the University of Papua New Guinea was held in Port Moresby . |
| 5 | It was only about twelve feet long a baby by local standards — but it hissed and barked and thrashed and stank until finally converted into a writhing sack of potatoes . |
| 6 | On July 20 a report by the Islamic Republic News Agency ( IRNA ) quoted government estimates that over 1,000,000 Iranians were drug addicts . |
| 7 | In November 1916 a speech by Miliukov created a sensation when he punctuated a list of the government 's shortcomings with the rhetorical question : ‘ Is this stupidity or treason ? ’ |
| 8 | On March 11 a report by the House of Commons treasury and civil service select committee had criticized the Bank of England 's regulatory role in supervising BCCI . |
| 9 | The Sudanese media reported on Feb. 13 a speech by the Chairman of the ruling Revolutionary Command Council ( RCC ) , Lt-Gen. |
| 10 | On 27 August 1991 a proposal by Congressman Amaral Netto to reintroduce the death penalty in Brazil was returned to the Constitution and Justice Commission for further study following serious questions by parliamentarians regarding its constitutionality . |
| 11 | On Nov. 18 a ruling by the Supreme Court confirmed that Gen. ( retd . ) |
| 12 | Humberto Ortega Saavedra , the Chief of the Armed Forces in neighbouring Nicaragua , denied on Nov. 25 a suggestion by the El Salvador government that the guerrillas had obtained the missiles from Nicaragua . |
| 13 | That is the amount conceded by John Major to the EC budget , swelling the Brussels coffers managed by Commission President Jacques Delors to £64.4 billion a year by 1999 . |
| 14 | In September 1989 a report by Vientiane home service stated that after the promulgation in July 1989 of a law on foreign investment , " hundreds of businesspeople " had applied for permission to invest in different sectors of the economy . |
| 15 | Increase replacement cost profit to $2 billion a year by 1995 |
| 16 | The UN Fund for Population Activities ( UNFPA ) estimates that developing countries will need $9 billion a year by 2000 to fund population control programmes . |
| 17 | On March 10-11 a rally by students demanded free elections , freedom of the media and a democratic constitution . |
| 18 | On April 22 a statement by the Presidential Council had stressed that the new constitution would ensure " the supremacy of Islamic sharia over all legislation " . |
| 19 | Among the 12 recipients are : Johnson Matthey , whose autocatalysts , are world leaders in a global market worth hundreds of millions of pounds a year ; Pilkington , whose energy saving glass is projected to be worth more than £100 million a year by the late 1990s ; Agricultural Genetics Company and Horticultural Research International , which have developed biological alternatives to chemical pesticides ; Sericol , for the development of water-based screen printing inks ; Ricoh UK Products , for chlorofluorocarbon ( CFC ) elimination in selenium drum production ; and Kerry Ultrasonics , whose water-based cleaning system replaces the need for CFCs . |
| 20 | The value of world trade collapsed from $3 billion a month at the start of 1929 to less than $1 billion a month by the beginning of 1933 . |