Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a time when one feels tempted to join in with the celebration of rugby as expressed by England and Ireland in the recent magnificent international match , it may seem churlish to focus on a theme that is no cause for euphoria by a source of concern for the future of sport — and rugby in particular . |
| 2 | He spread them out in the manner of a dealer displaying merchandise for inspection by a client and then sat down facing her , his huge mouth stretched in a smile of pure delight . |
| 3 | A claim for negligence by an employee injured by the negligence of a fellow employee , would be met by the defence of common employment . |
| 4 | One method is through support by an organisation . |
| 5 | However , if we can not agree , then you are entitled to refer the dispute for decision by an Arbitrator appointed by the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators , provided your claim is not more than £1,500 per person or £7,500 per Booking Form and does not involve physical injury or illness . |
| 6 | The creation of this order at the time a new Official Secrets Bill was being pushed through Parliament by an increasingly interventionist government is significant , and the idea of a senior officer 's having ‘ first read ’ of any essay to maintain the integrity of the institution manifests the importance of the legalized surveillance of allegedly dangerous material and enhances the separation of the world of control from that academic enquiry ; although its implementation is only randomly applied . |
| 7 | ( a ) Qualification and disqualification A candidate can be barred from standing for election by a returning officer only on certain limited grounds . |
| 8 | New versions of existing entries may not be stored in the database unless they have first been obtained for update by a known lexicographer , who is the only lexicographer allowed to return it . |
| 9 | If the seller of goods gives an express warranty in respect of them , he will still be subject to the liabilities created by the implied terms in the SGA ( SGA 1979 , ss13-15 ) unless those liabilities are expressly excluded : for instance by a term such as : This warranty is given instead of , and excludes , all other express or implied conditions , warranties or other contractual undertakings concerned with any of the following : ( i ) the condition or quality of the goods , ( ii ) their fitness for any particular purpose , ( iii ) their compliance with any description which might otherwise arise at common law or under any statute . |
| 10 | They must adjourn the matter for trial by a bench of three justices . |
| 11 | County court actions will automatically be allocated for trial by a district judge unless the particulars of claim include a statement that the value of the claim exceeds £5,000 . |
| 12 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 13 | As yet , no definite timescale for assessment by a certification body has been set . |
| 14 | Potentially democratic ideas thus provided a justification for rule by a propertied oligarchy . |
| 15 | But since ‘ obtaining the possession by any trick ’ amounts to a taking for the purpose of larceny , it is notoriously difficult to draw any logical distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and to decide whether a particular case amounts to the one offence or the other . |
| 16 | The alternative , however , involves the writing back into section 1(1) of words which the legislature , no doubt deliberately , omitted , and the re-introduction into the criminal law of the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences . |
| 17 | I have cited these passages in order to illustrate the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and the important , if obvious , fact that the owner 's consent to transfer the property prevents the offender from being guilty of larceny , although the consent was obtained by fraud and , in the words of Megaw L.J . |
| 18 | II , Professor J. C. Smith discusses the difference between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences and continues , at p. 20 , para. 38 : |
| 19 | The Court of Appeal in that case thought that the distinction between larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences depended on the presence in the Larceny Act of the words ‘ without the consent of the owner , ’ and , as these words do not appear in the definition of theft , the distinction is gone ; all cases of obtaining by deception , contrary to section 15 , are also theft . |
| 20 | The urine samples were tested for bacteriuria by a nitrite test ( BM-Tests , Boehringer Mannheim ) and were excluded if the result was positive . |
| 21 | The reference to the City of Chicago case is to a rule which prohibits any action for defamation by a local government authority . |
| 22 | Erm the way we 've er determined this is through research by a market intelligence unit er which has been aided by retail market intelligence and utilized er as the basis of our research and our calculations . |
| 23 | And when it 's time to stroll , the flower-filled town of Garmisch offers a rich supply of coffee shops , restaurants and boutiques , supplemented after dark by an international casino , traditional beer cellars , wine bars and discos . |
| 24 | a Electropherogram of mRNA eluted after capture by a specific complementary biotinylated angiotensin II receptor oligonucleotide on streptavidin beads . |
| 25 | In Britain a lifetime administrative career can still be crowned after retirement by a company directorship or a job advising how best to influence one 's erstwhile colleagues . |
| 26 | After selection by a local Children 's Panel Advisory Committee , new members are confirmed by the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 27 | The accumulator was recharged after use by a pump driven by the steam engine . |
| 28 | On the basis of these initial broad criteria , clearly irrelevant articles were discarded after consideration by a single reviewer . |
| 29 | Act 1974 is liable to unlimited fines and/or up to two years imprisonment after conviction by a Crown Court . |
| 30 | We played two games that day at Prescott Club and we were entertained after dinner by a Fiddlers Rally — a superb day . |