Example sentences of "this [be] an [noun sg] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is an attempt by Government to bring help to the traditional type of industry . |
| 2 | This is an appeal by Swansea City Council against a decision of Judge Michael Evans Q.C. , given in Swansea County Court on 6 February 1991 . |
| 3 | This is an application by Coventry Newspapers Ltd. , ( ‘ C.N.L. ’ ) , the publishers of the ‘ Coventry Evening Telegraph , ’ who are defendants in a libel action . |
| 4 | This is an application by Mrs. Doris Thomas with leave of the single judge for an order of mandamus to compel Mr. Douglas Robert Chambers , Her Majesty 's Coroner for Poplar , to hold an inquest into the death of her daughter , Miss Mavis Thomas . |
| 5 | This was an appeal by leave dated 18 November 1991 of the House of Lords ( Lord Bridge of Harwich , Lord Ackner and Lord Browne-Wilkinson ) by the appellants , Kirklees Metropolitan Borough Council , from the judgment dated 30 April 1991 of the Court of Appeal ( Dillon , Mann and Beldam L.JJ. ) allowing the appeal of the respondents , Wickes Building Supplies Ltd. , from the judgment dated 14 May 1990 of Mervyn Davies J. granting the appellants an interlocutory injunction to restrain the respondents from trading on Sunday contrary to section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 , within the appellants ' administrative area . |
| 6 | This was an action by Thorne , a member of the M.T.A. , against the Association to determine whether a demand of a sum of money in lieu of placing a person 's name on the stop list would constitute a demand of money with menaces and without reasonable or probable cause within section 29 ( 1 ) ( i ) of the Larceny Act 1916 . |