Example sentences of "by a [noun pl] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In effect , when section 89 applies , the company if it wishes to issue equity shares for cash , has to do so by a rights issue , as described in chapter 13 or a similar process if it is a private company . |
| 2 | ( 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 . |
| 3 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 4 | A German captain , interviewed off Larak Island by a Times correspondent , acknowledged the risks involved but went on to point out that ‘ the money is good and the contract is only six months ’ . |
| 5 | This is filled with Hex-nodes , tiny clay tubes , and oxygenated by a venturi system attached to the pump which injects air into the compartment . |
| 6 | And at the Royal Military School of Music in Deal , Kent three years ago , 11 bandsmen were killed by a 20lbs Semtex bomb . |
| 7 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 8 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 9 | Although technically complete the full line-up for Murrayfield 1993 has yet to be confirmed , simply because no-one knows whether the slot allocated to the former Soviet Union is going to be taken by a CIS selection or by one of the break-away republics . |
| 10 | Now they want to gain ownership of Wolvercote Common which has long been managed by a commoners committee . |
| 11 | Information relating to a particular employee , former employee or applicant to become an employee of , or a particular officer , former officer or applicant to become an officer appointed by a magistrates court committee or a probation committee . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've got ta be the only band in history to be sued by a comics company and a clothing company , ’ says Eugene , wryly . |
| 13 | ‘ MUSICA internationale ’ was the theme taken by a schools music festival . |
| 14 | His narrow shoulders were habitually draped by a challis scarf , his hands adorned by two Russian wedding rings . |
| 15 | ‘ Every car that comes along the line is different — a station wagon followed by a sports car followed by an export model . |
| 16 | His call for the establishment of a working relationship with environmentalists has been supported by a Fisheries Ministry spokesman . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | That application still exists , accompanied by a head-and-shoulders photograph of Joyce , smartly-suited and with hair plastered down . |
| 19 | Eventually Neil was interviewed by a customs officer who , he says , ‘ Looked like Agent Cooper from Twin Peaks , but unlike him was as straight on the inside as he appeared on the outside . ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Isabel Lenihan , who 's 77 , was found by a police helicopter . |
| 22 | The body was tracked by a police helicopter and recovered by the Mersey Inshore Rescue Service , said coroner Roy Barter . |
| 23 | Guo Weichang had stabbed 20 women on Shanghai buses before he was seized by a police chief on the same bus as the 21st . |
| 24 | This point can best be proved by a police officer who observes some actual unnecessary obstruction of the road causing other road users inconvenience , delay , or complete blockage of the road etc . |
| 25 | The purpose is proved by question and answer if the defendant is driving or if he has to be interviewed later by a police officer . |
| 26 | ‘ Uncontrolled ’ means not controlled by a police officer or a traffic warden . |
| 27 | CHAMPIONS Leeds face an FA inquiry after being reported by a police officer who was shocked by their four-letter tirade . |
| 28 | It is open to debate whether the office should be performed by a police officer or by a prosecutorial figure . |
| 29 | ( 2 ) That , although the scope of Code C of the Codes of Practice ( 1985 ed. ) extended beyond persons in detention , it was intended to protect suspects who were , or thought themselves to be , vulnerable to abuse or pressure from police officers , and applied where a suspect was being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as such for the purpose of obtaining evidence ; that , since the appellants were not being questioned by police officers acting as such and conversation was on equal terms , there could be no question of pressure or intimidation by the officers as persons actually or believed to be in authority ; and that , accordingly , Code C did not apply in the circumstances and the judge 's approach could not be faulted ( post , p. 237C–E , H ) . |
| 30 | But the Code will also apply where a suspect , not in detention , is being questioned about an offence by a police officer acting as a police officer for the purpose of obtaining evidence . |