Example sentences of "to [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 2 | ‘ Constable Bewman here pointed out that each guest had their plate handed to them by Edith but I ca n't see how that would give the murderer any scope . ’ |
| 3 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 4 | The great change that has occurred is that retailers no longer go out into the market place and buy what is offered to them by manufacturers . |
| 5 | SCD acted on behalf of a primary housing co-operative , Ekarro Housing Co-operative , who were active in the area , housing single people referred to them by various caring agencies . |
| 6 | Both players responded alertly to the capricious nature of the Wilfred Josephs Sonata No3 , a work dedicated to them by the composer , displaying no lack of brilliance to meet its formidable technical demands . |
| 7 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , and Lord Lane , Lord Chief Justice , two of the four senior judges with a veto , criticised the role given to them by the bill . |
| 8 | Instead of outrage at last week 's blocking of the succession of Stipe Mesic , a Croat , as Yugoslavia 's new president , officials in Zagreb smile at the propaganda coup handed to them by Serb politicians in Belgrade . |
| 9 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 10 | It could either provide that all married women should hold their property as their separate property — thus giving to all married women the right to dispose of their property and to make contracts binding it which formerly could only be given to them by a will or a settlement ; or it could adopt the more straightforward course of making the capacity of a married woman to own property , make contracts , and incur liability for torts the same as that of a man . |
| 11 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 12 | In this chapter we shall be looking at how this particular group of people might view and understand what is being offered to them by the church at the time of a major bereavement . |
| 13 | Despite recognising the power of the advertising world , Jo does feel that there is some possibility for girls to pick and choose between what is offered to them by the media , and how they want to look themselves . |
| 14 | Under some forms of PR , their names are put on a list and seats are awarded to them by party managers . |
| 15 | On his fret were huge lead boots with metal straps and weights attached to them by rusty nuts and bolts . |
| 16 | Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city . |
| 17 | At one stage the station , not far from the foreign legations , was connected to them by a tram line . |
| 18 | The Smiths began to relish the success given to them by the lyrically obscure ‘ This Charming Man ’ . |
| 19 | The argument put forward by the lowlanders , that they were being flooded out by water sent down to them by those living higher up the hill , was naturally resisted by the latter . |
| 20 | First , it distanced the riots from the social , economic , political , and other grievances which had been linked to them by locating the cause outside the ‘ social problems ’ of inner-city dwellers and in the ‘ simple greed ’ of the drug barons to accumulate ‘ loot ’ . |
| 21 | The crest was granted to them by King Robert I of Scotland , when one of the family turned away a charging bull , threatening the King 's life . |
| 22 | These pleats give the lava a ropy appearance , and the flows are called by a name given to them by the Polynesian islanders — pahoehoe flows . |
| 23 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 24 | Some librarians do seem to be less concerned with the size of their collections , and more interested in access to them by users . |
| 25 | With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope . |
| 26 | With that perspective , it is perhaps not surprising to discover that decision makers often find the external information delivered to them by knowledge workers to be not as valuable in helping to solve the task in hand as they would have wished . |
| 27 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 28 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 29 | Volunteers kept diaries , answered regular questionnaires , and generally responded to points put to them by the directors of the study , Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge . |
| 30 | Market research firms , government research agencies , academic research units and many other organizations which carry out survey interviews depend for their success on the voluntary help given to them by members of the general public . |