Example sentences of "it by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 2 | We sold the residual sixteen years , approx , to a client represented by Harvey Gough & partners , who soon afterwards resold it by private treaty to a small company whose name I have not yet discovered , with the rumoured intention that it would be turned into a private nursing home . |
| 3 | Every man , woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection ; it rests with each one of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort . |
| 4 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 5 | KAMPALA ( Reuter ) — Uganda 's President , Yoweri Museveni , whose government 's four-year term ends in four months , wants to extend it by two years to draft a new constitution . |
| 6 | He clutched it by two handfuls of thick fleece , bracing himself as it tried to lunge forwards . |
| 7 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 8 | ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him . |
| 9 | ( 12 ) Any notice required to be given under this Article by the Company to a Member or by a Member to the Company shall be given or served either personally or by sending it by first class post to the registered office of the Company or , as the case may be , to the registered address of the Member or ( if he has no registered address within the United Kingdom ) to the address , if any , within the United Kingdom supplied by him to the Company for the giving of notice to him . |
| 10 | Subject to the requirements of any act or particular rule ( as to which see below ) any document may be served , if the person to be served is acting in person , by delivering it to him personally or by delivering it at , or sending it by first class post to , the address he has given for service . |
| 11 | If he has given no address for service , service may be effected by delivering the document at his residence or by sending it by first class post to his last known residence , or in the case of a proprietor of a business , by delivering the document at his place of business or sending it by first class post to his last known place of business ( Ord 7 , r 1 ) . |
| 12 | If he has given no address for service , service may be effected by delivering the document at his residence or by sending it by first class post to his last known residence , or in the case of a proprietor of a business , by delivering the document at his place of business or sending it by first class post to his last known place of business ( Ord 7 , r 1 ) . |
| 13 | If the person to be served is represented by a solicitor , the document may be served by delivering the document at , or sending it by first class post to , the solicitor 's address for service ( Ord 7 , r 1(b) ) . |
| 14 | A writ can still be served on a limited company by sending it by first class post to the registered office , but following the Practice Direction ( QBD ) ( Service of Documents : First and Second Class Mail ) ( 1985 ) 8 March [ 1985 ] 1 WLR 489 the presumption will be of service on the second working day after posting by first class post or the fourth working day after posting by second class post . |
| 15 | In a personal injury action where the plaintiff prepares the summons it may now be served by the plaintiff 's solicitor sending it by first class post to the defendant at the address stated in the summons under Ord 7 , r10A . |
| 16 | In the event of any Related company ceasing to be so related then ( unless the requisite rights are duly assigned to it by such Party by agreement ) each Party undertakes on request to grant to it continuing rights of a similar nature on fair and reasonable terms . |
| 17 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 18 | For others , however , it will be plain that they made their asylum claim to extend their stay here only when they had failed to prolong it by other means . |
| 19 | Part of the deficit of the mainland colonies with Britain was covered by their exports to the sugar islands , part of it by increased indebtedness to British merchants . |
| 20 | Some of it by clever accounting on the part of Andrew |
| 21 | In November 1990 Treuhand stated that half of all land and property had claims entered against it by former owners . |
| 22 | Those who have experienced deliverance by the hand of God , and who live under his sovereignty , must show it by distinctive behaviour . |
| 23 | And it is the healthy CV system that can cope easily with all the strains placed upon it by modern living . |
| 24 | There is a problem of access to affordable housing , all I 'm saying is that you do n't solve it by wholesale allocation of land . |
| 25 | At a given signal the egg is passed by sleight-of-hand to one of the members of the triad , who endeavours to move it by bodily force across the white lines of winter … |
| 26 | It is simply that the Irish government want to achieve it by peaceful means , and the IRA otherwise . ’ |
| 27 | As regards the visual interpretation of each array considered in isolation , Ullman relies on the work of David Marr , who studied the information picked up from the ambient light by the retina , and the image-forming computations performed on it by peripheral levels of the visual system ( Marr 1976 , 1978 , 1979 ) . |
| 28 | If the information is accidentally overheard or intercepted in circumstances where the owner of the information utters it or transmits it by insecure means ( for example , by telling someone in a crowded room or by transmitting the information by a public telecommunications system ) an obligation of confidence might not be imposed on the person obtaining the information in this manner . |
| 29 | Ben Ali said after Baccouche 's dismissal that Tunisia would pursue the economic structural adjustment plan recommended by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) , while adapting it by increasing investment and employment . |
| 30 | I only discovered I was in it by sheer chance . |