Example sentences of "a [noun sg] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however believed that the Divisional Court said that if the only consideration for a payment by the client was a disbursement by his solicitor , different considerations might apply . |
| 2 | Such conditions were a ruse by the North to make the South pay an unfair share of the cost of protecting the environment , said Bernard Chidzero , the Zimbabwe finance minister , at the September 1989 Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Jamaica . |
| 3 | People in Walton believe that was just a ruse by the youths . |
| 4 | It may be seen as a ruse by the parasite to avoid adverse climatic conditions for its progeny by remaining sexually immature in the host until more favourable conditions return . |
| 5 | The effect of a reservation against such a provision by the State of the forum where the conflict rules of that State lead to the application of the law of another Contracting State which has not made such a reservation is unclear . |
| 6 | Buster Musto ran through for a touchdown by the posts . |
| 7 | At this year 's May time celebrations all of the children performed country dances and a special feature was dancing around a Maypole by the children in Miss King 's class . |
| 8 | seminar which is to be held a week on Saturday in Ipswich from which we hope will er quite a bit by a way of input to the forthcoming lorry management plan , thank you . |
| 9 | So it came as something of a shock to Labour 's Brian Wilson when he found that a Commons motion he had tabled had been … well , subbed a bit by the authorities of the House . |
| 10 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 11 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 12 | The first test in Europe of the theory of " liberation " came as early as 1953 when , after the death of Stalin , unrest in the satellite countries came to a head with a rising by the people of East Germany . |
| 13 | I suppose you should you sho , push it with a stick by the saw so you do n't get your fingers in . |
| 14 | But what is more important than anything else is that they should not be treated as packages and removed from one place to another and back again because the grown-ups are involved in a dispute and have overlooked that children have rights , and that children 's rights are to remain somewhere until after calm and sensible consideration and a decision by a court that the particular place in which they are living is changed by the decision of the court to them living somewhere else . |
| 15 | A decision by a court to refuse costs , in whole or in part , to a mortgage litigant may be a decision in the exercise of the section 51 discretion or a decision in the exercise of the power to fix the terms on which redemption will be allowed or a decision as to the extent of a mortgagee 's contractual right to add his costs to the security or a combination of two or more of these things . |
| 16 | The closure of thirty-one pits by British Coal has been delayed pending a decision by a judge as to whether or not it is legal . |
| 17 | A decision by a customer to change a source of supply usually involves substantial fixed costs in setting up new systems of distribution and servicing which can not be immediately written off against lower supply prices . |
| 18 | This requests the court to review and quash a decision by a minister or local authority . |
| 19 | The proposals follow a decision by a Government inspector to prevent private health company Bioplan from building a clinic in the grounds of Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 20 | The method adopted by Ministers for discussing policy questions is however essentially a domestic matter ; and a decision by a Cabinet Committee , unless referred to the Cabinet , engages the collective responsibility of all Ministers and has exactly the same authority as a decision by the Cabinet itself . |
| 21 | Ministers have upheld a decision by the Directorate of Came and Freshwater Fish that the wolf , which has been killing sheep near Vergarshei in the south of the country , should be shot . |
| 22 | Northgate Computer Corp , reporting losses up over 40% at $2.1m on sales off 47% at $18.3m , said James Goetz , president and chief executive , had resigned ; pending a decision by the board , Khaled Ibrahim , chief financial officer , will supervise the company 's operations . |
| 23 | The decision impugned is a decision by the board of Lautro on 30 October 1990 to exercise its intervention powers so as to prohibit Norwich Union Life Insurance Society ( ‘ Norwich ’ ) and three associated companies from accepting any new investment business from Winchester or from soliciting investment business from the public through Winchester or any of its representatives . |
| 24 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 25 | For example a decision by the US motor manufacturers to switch to small cars ahead of market demand would have been very difficult . |
| 26 | The cancellation , representing 3.6 per cent of Malawi 's total external public debt of $1,200 million , followed a decision by the US Congress to reward 11 sub-Saharan African countries adopting IMF and World Bank economic reform measures . |
| 27 | The project had been effectively nullified by the UN embargo on Iraq following its invasion of Kuwait , and by a decision by the US Congress during the ensuing Gulf war to stiffen a sanctions law preventing technology transfers , including non-military , to countries producing missiles . |
| 28 | A DECISION by the US computer company Digital on the future of their plants at Ayr and Galway is imminent . |
| 29 | The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on . |
| 30 | A decision by the Germans to leave their interest rates unchanged put the skids under prices in London and the FT-SE 100 was on the slippery slope . |