Example sentences of "by [noun sg] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haunted by penury for the rest of her life , she habitually made notes over other people 's letters and wrote her own on the back of old laundry bills . |
| 2 | He was acquainted with the facts , had the benefit of much of the argument later addressed to the High Court , and preferred the submissions made to him by counsel for the officers . |
| 3 | Anyone reading of the trial would appreciate the ordeal of the rape victim in court as she ‘ sobbed continuously as she was cross-examined by counsel for the men … . ’ |
| 4 | In a Practice Note in April 1983 ( [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1055 ) Sir John recommended the submission shortly before the hearing of the appeal of ‘ skeleton arguments ’ by counsel for the parties . |
| 5 | It may however be noted that the immunity against judicial interrogation is no longer as complete as it was , for the abolition by the Criminal Evidence Act 1898 of the rule that an accused was not even a competent witness at his own trial opened up the possibility that if he did give evidence he would expose himself to questioning by counsel for the prosecution and in appropriate circumstances by the judge himself ; and his privilege against self-incrimination whilst giving evidence was expressly removed by section 1 ( e ) of the Act of 1898 . |
| 6 | The court went on to record that the issues thus created had been narrowed by the acceptance on the part of the applicant 's counsel that the right of silence could not be invoked against the Director prior to the charge of the suspected person , and by counsel for the Director that if , as he submitted , the power to require information did not cease at the time of charge then it did not cease at all ( save in cases where the charge was not pursued ) until the investigation came to an end on the conviction or acquittal of the person charged . |
| 7 | None of the second to ninth defendants appeared at the hearing but all the arguments available to them were put by counsel for the ombudsman . |
| 8 | If that view were correct , it would appear to pre-empt Woolwich 's arguments in favour of a right to repayment arising at common law , though it is fair to say that this was not the position adopted by counsel for the revenue before your Lordships ' House . |
| 9 | It was not suggested by counsel for the mother that , if the non est factum plea failed , she might nonetheless be entitled to rectification against the chargees . |
| 10 | In each of these appeals it has been rightly accepted by counsel for the contemnor that the hearing below of the committal application was impeccable , that the sentence imposed for the contempts of court found proved can not be criticised and the committal order properly specified each of the contempts for which the contemnor had been sentenced . |
| 11 | May L.J. , at p. 41 , refers to a submission made by counsel for the prosecution that Nolan J. 's reference to ‘ the alternatives ’ was a reference to a choice between breath on the one hand and blood or urine on the other hand and not to a choice between blood and urine . |
| 12 | 1156 , the House was invited by counsel for the appellant to overrule those cases also . |
| 13 | This argument , which is based on grounds of natural justice and procedural fairness , is resisted by counsel for the Secretary of State , partly because the statutory structure does not require that the information should be given and partly in reliance on the decision of this court in Payne v. Lord Harris of Greenwich [ 1981 ] 1 W.L.R. 754 . |
| 14 | It was conceded by counsel for the defendant , necessarily and rightly , that the old offence of larceny by a trick is covered by section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 , as well as by section 15(1) to which we shall refer later , despite what may be called the apparent consent of the victim . |
| 15 | This ‘ second dispute ’ argument was not advanced by counsel for the steelworkers but emanated from the bench . |
| 16 | The May inquiry was told on June 15 by counsel for the Maguires that inspection of the records of the scientists involved in the forensic tests showed that a second series of tests on the hand swabs had been carried out and had proved negative . |
| 17 | Dexter was unable to decide whether her wistfulness was caused by sympathy for the victims of adultery or knowledge that the majority of murders were committed by close relatives of the dead . |
| 18 | Profits on these sales were , however , to a large extent offset by provision for the expected loss on disposal of the group 's remaining minerals interest , Olympic Dam in Australia , and on the closure and disposal of certain retail sites in the United States . |
| 19 | He was renominated and confirmed by referendum for a further six-year term in October 1987 . |
| 20 | Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 21 | He was already owed money by Hope for the times he had taken him fishing . |
| 22 | The head of state is the President of the Republic ( currently Konstantinos Karamanlis , who has largely ceremonial functions and is elected by Parliament for a five-year term . |
| 23 | Earlier , on Aug. 31 , 1989 , the non-executive President , Wee Kim Wee , had been unanimously re-elected by Parliament for a four-year term . |
| 24 | Under the 1975 Constitution Greece , or the Hellenic Republic , is a parliamentary democracy with a President as head of state ( with , since 1986 , largely ceremonial functions ) who is elected by parliament for a five-year term . |
| 25 | In 1911 , when the second Moroccan crisis had shown how easily Europe might now be engulfed by war , it was discussed by parliament for the first time . |
| 26 | PLEASURE at the news that Paul Gascoigne is to begin his long-awaited comeback at the end of this month is matched by admiration for an unpublicised example of the Tottenham Terror 's generosity off the field . |
| 27 | Among the most spectacular drawings in the present show are a study by Pozzo for the ceiling of S. Ignazio , Rome , and a design for a silver ewer depicting the signs of the zodiac by Etienne Delaune . |
| 28 | Random numbers selected by computer for a newspaper competition called " Millionaire of the Month " were held to be protected by copyright in Express Newspapers plc v Liverpool Daily Post & Echo plc [ 1985 ] . |
| 29 | A girl , overcome by enthusiasm for the occasion , took off her clothes and sprung forward through the crowds . |
| 30 | Popular crowd pullers Talisman will be joined by Alligator for the show on April 18 . |