Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In view of today 's decision by the Court of Appeal to allow the appeal by Winston Silcott , may I ask whether you have received a request by the Home Secretary to make a statement on that matter ? |
| 2 | The bank has called a London meeting of leading share registrars and custodians for next Tuesday to discuss the fall-out from Thursday 's decision by the Stock Exchange council to scrap the £400 million Taurus project . |
| 3 | LAST WEEK 'S decision by the Stock Exchange to abandon the Taurus computerised share-trading system will bring a windfall saving of £1 billion in the coming year , the Chancellor said yesterday , writes Richard Shackleton . |
| 4 | The right hon. Gentleman will be aware of yesterday 's decision by the House , by 224 votes to 4 , to do something about the shambles about the operation of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman has been here sufficiently long to know that yesterday 's decision by the House was simply to give leave to bring in a Bill . |
| 6 | If oil in these quantities were to be found China 's production could be double today 's level by the end of the century with a consequent addition to government revenues of something of the order of $10 billion per year . |
| 7 | Despite a call for Mr Salmond 's resignation by the Mossend branch in Lanarkshire , the SNP council group backed Mr Salmond and his SNP colleagues at Westminster in a weekend vote . |
| 8 | Nor is it possible to capture one 's experience by the idea of a bare subject . |
| 9 | The 1880s/1890s were marked by an early challenge to the UK 's hegemony by the industrialization of Germany , other European countries and the United States . |
| 10 | He also regains the reader 's admiration by the way in which he seems to have been humbled by his many ordeals . |
| 11 | You can not judge a TV campaign 's weight by the number of crosses on a visual . |
| 12 | US military aid had been cut in November 1991 after Koffigoh 's abduction by the army [ see pp. 38664-64 ] . |
| 13 | Montenegro trebled its area at Turkey 's expense by the Treaty of San Stefano in 1878 , but the treaty was never ratified , and the Congress of Berlin a few months later forced Montenegro to surrender some of its gains . |
| 14 | Barthes 's commentary represents what he calls the step-by-step approach which affirms the text 's plurality by the attempt to ‘ star [ étoiler ] the text instead of assembling it ’ ( p. 13 ) , to fragment and disperse it , instead of unifying it . |
| 15 | The new role assigned to the reader is defined in Julio Cortázar 's Hopscotch by the writer Morelli : |
| 16 | Recommendations are due on Mr Breeden 's desk by the end of May . |
| 17 | The Bishop quoted Pope John Paul II in support of the right to work : ‘ The obligation to earn one 's bread by the sweat of one 's brow also presumes the right to do so . |
| 18 | This , in fact , referred to the sequestration of a clerk 's benefice by the bishop rather than to excommunication , but its principle was all-embracing and even included the servants of royal servants . |
| 19 | Due diligence is the investigation of the vendor 's business by the purchaser and its advisers before contracts are executed . |
| 20 | Jennie was already a dynamic force in John 's business by the time they were married and almost to celebrate it , when he had a publicity brochure printed with engraved illustrations of the dancers , pride of place went to portraits of himself and his bride . |
| 21 | I think the process that I 've just explained would allow that anyway , because what I would do , if I just go back over it again , supposing for argument 's sake by the end of February we 've agreed which one we think it 's going to be , we then I then go to the home . |
| 22 | FACED with what can best be described as a public relations crisis , the Association of British Insurers ' vigorous over-reaction to Thursday 's conclusion by the Office of Fair Trading that key rules governing the sale of life products are anti-competitive is , to put it mildly , stupid . |
| 23 | ‘ But it is clearly necessary to distinguish between , on the one hand , cases in which a wife , alive to the nature and effect of the obligation she is undertaking , is procured to become her husband 's surety by the assertion by him upon her of undue influence , affirmatively established , and on the other hand , cases where she does not understand the effect of the document or the nature of the transaction of suretyship . |
| 24 | Following the bill 's approval by the House of Representatives the Senate delayed its consideration of the issue pending the outcome of the negotiations between Danforth and the Bush administration . |
| 25 | The increased misuse of solvents had been brought to Wirral Council 's attention by the Chief Constable of Merseyside in December 1982 . |
| 26 | The disclosure comes after last night 's announcement by the UVF that it has lifted its death threat against prison officers . |
| 27 | The disclosure comes after last night 's announcement by the UVF that it has lifted its death threat against prison officers . |
| 28 | While the rest of Wales quakes in anticipation of next week 's invasion by the world champions , Price is merely looking forward to another tussle with the ultimate rugby enemy . |
| 29 | maybe like Todd 's standing by the lake yeah and Jim 's like pissed out of his head and comes driving along in the truck and drives his truck into the lake or something . |
| 30 | Should the bishop or his candidate protest , the king 's nominee would soon obtain an appropriate writ from chancery whereby the issue could be decided in the king 's court by the king 's judges . |