Example sentences of "[verb] by the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 2 | Torri del Benaco meanwhile , is another charming village , dominated by the 13th century castle of the Scaligiers . |
| 3 | In the old town by the harbour you find Piazza III Novembre , dominated by the 13th century Apponale Tower , and the cable-car up to the round Venetian watchtower which offers wonderful views . |
| 4 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 5 | This is where the Rhine and Moselle join forces , and the confluence is dominated by the 10th Century Ehrenbreitstein Fortress . |
| 6 | The organic textbook market of the 1970s was dominated by the third edition of Robert Robert Boyd 's Organic Chemistry ( Allyn & Bacon , 1st ed 1959 ) . |
| 7 | Not only does the house contain one of the most interesting ‘ collections of collections ’ , but it is surrounded by the first pleasure garden to be run entirely organically in the National Trust . |
| 8 | The first four sections of Chapter II of Part VII replace , with amendments , the concessions to smaller companies originally afforded by the 1981 Act as permitted by the Fourth Company Law Directive . |
| 9 | Those Q.T. 's who have already received tickets to sell will greatly assist Cicely in the organisation of the event if they would let her know by the first week in February how many tickets they have sold as she will be away from 8th Feb. to 8th March . |
| 10 | Perhaps the rationalisation the person devises for coping with the first loss is shattered by the second loss . |
| 11 | The holding-period yield , rh ( assuming that the bond is bought on a coupon payment date ( so that AI = 0 ) and sold an even number of coupon payment dates later ( so that T is an integer ) ) , is calculated using where r i is the rollover rate of interest earned by the ith coupon payment and P 1 is the price at which the bond was sold . |
| 12 | If an example is needed to make this clearer one can be found in the special place occupied by the Second World War in public consciousness in Britain and , more particularly , in Margaret Thatcher 's increasingly deliberate manipulation of Churchillian sketches over the period of the Falklands crisis . |
| 13 | The explanation that is usually given as to why we do n't see broken cups gathering themselves together off the floor and jumping back onto the table is that it is forbidden by the second law of thermodynamics . |
| 14 | Central to Thorngumbald was the blacksmith 's shop , hub of working activity for a large area , now rebuilt as a modern garage but still owned by the fourth generation of Willinghams . |
| 15 | It might be argued that the test procedure is thus shown to be at fault , since in all the above cases the first element can be shown to have a clear semantic function relative to the second element : in fact , it signals a sub-variety of the general category denoted by the second element . |
| 16 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 17 | They were produced at a time when lay people were being targeted for instruction in ways which further fostered their consciousness as individuals with self-defining choices to be made by the programme for revitalising the mission of the Church instituted by the fourth Lateran Council in 1215 . |
| 18 | Hawksmoor , which came out in 1985 , was preceded by the Eliot biography of 1984 , which was preceded by The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde of the year before , and in 1987 these annual events were pressed upon by Chatterton . |
| 19 | But their spirit had entirely vanished by the Second World War . |
| 20 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 21 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |
| 22 | One of these is Barbara Waller , the world famous stained glass artist who , coincidentally , lives by the 18th tee . |
| 23 | In finance , the crude picture in Herodotus ' list of the Tributes ( iii.89ff. ) and depicted on the reliefs at Persepolis — huge quantities of bullion brought by subject peoples — must be modified by the fourth century . |
| 24 | At Spaunton the regular two-row village had originated by the thirteenth century , replacing a hamlet 450 metres ( 490 yards ) away which was remembered in the field names ‘ old field ’ and ‘ tofts ’ . |
| 25 | What this usually means is that payment is expected by the last day of the month following the month in which the invoice is issued . |
| 26 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 27 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 28 | If we add a syllable , the ‘ fall ’ part of the fall-rise is usually carried by the first syllable and the ‘ rise ’ part by the second . |
| 29 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT is to be added by the second quarter of next year . |
| 30 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT will be added by the second quarter of next year . |