Example sentences of "a [noun sg] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however believed that the Divisional Court said that if the only consideration for a payment by the client was a disbursement by his solicitor , different considerations might apply . |
| 2 | Such conditions were a ruse by the North to make the South pay an unfair share of the cost of protecting the environment , said Bernard Chidzero , the Zimbabwe finance minister , at the September 1989 Commonwealth finance ministers ' meeting in Jamaica . |
| 3 | It may be seen as a ruse by the parasite to avoid adverse climatic conditions for its progeny by remaining sexually immature in the host until more favourable conditions return . |
| 4 | The effect of a reservation against such a provision by the State of the forum where the conflict rules of that State lead to the application of the law of another Contracting State which has not made such a reservation is unclear . |
| 5 | A second and commodious objection to the view of nomic connection which has been set out was anticipated earlier ( 1.3 ) , and may be shored up a bit by the fact lately mentioned , that science broadly speaking is not much engaged in arriving at complete descriptions of causal circumstances-causal circumstances as we have conceived them . |
| 6 | I 'll have dried out a bit by the time I get to the cottage , and I do n't really want to go all the way back to the farm after I 've come this far . ’ |
| 7 | I suppose you should you sho , push it with a stick by the saw so you do n't get your fingers in . |
| 8 | Ministers have upheld a decision by the Directorate of Came and Freshwater Fish that the wolf , which has been killing sheep near Vergarshei in the south of the country , should be shot . |
| 9 | Northgate Computer Corp , reporting losses up over 40% at $2.1m on sales off 47% at $18.3m , said James Goetz , president and chief executive , had resigned ; pending a decision by the board , Khaled Ibrahim , chief financial officer , will supervise the company 's operations . |
| 10 | The decision impugned is a decision by the board of Lautro on 30 October 1990 to exercise its intervention powers so as to prohibit Norwich Union Life Insurance Society ( ‘ Norwich ’ ) and three associated companies from accepting any new investment business from Winchester or from soliciting investment business from the public through Winchester or any of its representatives . |
| 11 | ( 3 ) The chairman of a licensing board has a second or casting vote when the voting in connection with a decision by the board is equal except where the matter being decided is the grant or provisional grant of a new licence . |
| 12 | The father came before the judge on an ex parte application designed to return the boy , A. , to the family , to protect the other three children and to preserve the status quo pending a decision by the judge as to where the children should live by making the appropriate applications for a residence order and so on . |
| 13 | SCOTTISHPOWER 'S current year profits will be dented by more than £10 million after a decision by the accountancy profession 's regulatory body . |
| 14 | The courts : Very occasionally a decision by the council or , on appeal , by the DoE can be challenged in the courts through a judicial review . |
| 15 | He is applying for judicial review of a decision by the council 's professional conduct committee to prefer the less serious charge of breach of proper professional standards , which leads to an admonition . |
| 16 | The Supreme Court on Nov. 16 upheld a decision by the government of former Prime Minister V. P. Singh reserving 27 per cent of public-sector jobs for members of the lower castes but ruled that the total reservation should not exceed 50 per cent [ see pp. 37653 ; 37710-11 ; 37774 ] . |
| 17 | Care should , however , be taken where a section appears to confer no right of appeal , but that section is in fact linked to another section where a right of appeal exists ; e.g. under s.62 a licensing board may attach conditions to a grant or transfer of a licence and apparently there is no right of appeal against that section , but in Wallace v. Kyle and Carrick Licensing Board , 1979 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 12 , it was held that as s.62 was ancillary to s.10 under which licences were granted , an appeal was competent ; see also M. Milne v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 145 where an appeal against a decision by the clerk under 5.10(1) refusing to accept a late application for renewal was allowed in respect that the application related to a renewal of a licence under s.17(4) . |
| 18 | On May 2 Arpad Göncz was elected by 339 votes to 31 as its Speaker and thus as interim President of the Hungarian Republic , pending a decision by the Assembly on how presidential elections should be held later in the year . |
| 19 | It has been held , for example , that a gypsy living on a caravan site provided by a local authority under statute has sufficient interest to challenge a decision by the authority no longer to provide the site or any alternative ; and to challenge a decision by the Minister not to exercise his statutory default power . |
| 20 | The departure last year of Peter Shakeshaft and Stuart Hall , two outsiders brought in to oversee the diversification strategy , coincided with a decision by the company to return to its roots . |
| 21 | Er I hope that makes the matter clear , because when we come to make a decision on this group of amendments , er when I er seek the opinion of the er Committee on my Amendment five , I shall only be seeking agreement to Amendment five and its related amendments er eight and eleven and if the Noble Lord , Lord er if , if the House were er to disagree with my Amendment or if it were to be withdrawn and the Noble Lord , Lord amendment were , were put , I think he would agree that it would only tha that that a decision by the Committee would only relate to the amendments in his name because we have in fact four alternatives before us which we are debating together . |
| 22 | The council of research ministers is expected to reach a decision by the beginning of June . |
| 23 | Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls . |
| 24 | I stand by what I said — I shall do my utmost to get a decision by the end of February . |
| 25 | José María Mieres Muro ( Blanco ) took over from Raúl Lago Finsterwald responsibility for Housing and the Environment , pending a decision by the Party for the Government of the People ( PGP , part of the centre-left Nuevo Espacio coalition ) over whether to accept Lacalle 's invitation to join the government . |
| 26 | The method adopted by Ministers for discussing policy questions is however essentially a domestic matter ; and a decision by a Cabinet Committee , unless referred to the Cabinet , engages the collective responsibility of all Ministers and has exactly the same authority as a decision by the Cabinet itself . |
| 27 | A decision by the Environment Secretary is not expected for several months after the close of the inquiry . |
| 28 | Massingberd-Mundy , a 62-year-old former Royal Navy submarine commander of South Ormsby Hall , Louth , was attempting to quash a decision by the Club to strike him off the list of potential chairmen of the stewards ' panel at Doncaster racecourse . |
| 29 | The agreement by Italy to take back the toxic waste on board the Italian ship , the Karin B [ see p. 36788 ] , was followed on Dec. 15 , 1988 , by a decision by the city council of La Spezia , Italy , to accept the return of 8,000 barrels of Italian industrial waste , which had been found in a dump north of Beirut , the Lebanese capital , in June 1988 [ see p. 36251 ] . |
| 30 | The implementation of a decision by the city council of Prague to make catalytic converters obligatory for all Czech-made business vehicles has been postponed . |