Example sentences of "by a [noun pl] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 13 ) If the cash for the bid is to be raised by a rights issue of the bidder ( cash placings to selected shareholders or third parties are strongly resisted by the IPCs without shareholders being offered pre-emption entitlements , particularly if the issue is at a significant discount ) , then it may be necessary to increase its authorised share capital and directors ' authority to implement the rights issue and , if the issue will not comply with the strict statutory requirements of CA 1985 , s89 , to pass a special resolution to disapply that section . |
| 2 | Such is the case : Ullapool was designed by a Fisheries Association in 1788 as a base for the herring industry and today the centre of activity is still the splendid harbour , a place of boats and bustle and screaming seagulls . |
| 3 | That application still exists , accompanied by a head-and-shoulders photograph of Joyce , smartly-suited and with hair plastered down . |
| 4 | The report revealed that the riots had been sparked off by police mishandling of a case in which a trader was beaten up by a customs official in Taipei . |
| 5 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 6 | The safeguards here may be very good , but they may not be so well understood by a police officer in another country who read about that suspicion . |
| 7 | He was caught by a police radar in Lydney . |
| 8 | ‘ Uncontrolled zebra crossing ’ means a zebra crossing at which traffic is not for the time being controlled by a police constable in uniform or by a traffic warden . |
| 9 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 10 | Pringle , 24 , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , suffered a jaw injury when shot by a police marksman at the end of an Easter siege incident in Darlington . |
| 11 | A WOMAN badly injured when she was hit by a police car on a pedestrian crossing is likely to lose half of a £48,500 damages award after an appeal court ruling yesterday . |
| 12 | Unfortunately he is stopped by a police boat with Compeyson on board . |
| 13 | By a respondent 's notice dated 28 February 1992 the father contended that in the event of the appeal being allowed in part the order should be varied so that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing the costs incurred by the father in the family proceedings court and that sum to be calculated by a costs draftsman by reference to the Legal Aid in Family Proceedings ( Remuneration ) Regulations 1991 or alternatively , to an order that the local authority pay to the father a sum representing in relating to the proceedings below calculated in the same way but excluding all or part of the costs incurred on 27 and 28 January 1992 . |