Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] them by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 3 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 4 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 5 | As a consequence , they are likely to be faced with the necessity of balancing priorities — within the various demands being made upon them by the inchoate changes which characterize the present assessment climate . |
| 6 | Even as far away as Australia commentators talked about a quiet revolution in the way Australians and their communities were responding to the types of learning challenges being presented to them by the changing social conditions of the 1970s and early 1980s . |
| 7 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 8 | Perhaps some forgiving souls might protest that former East German athletes had faced a particular difficulty in giving up the bad habits imposed on them by the success-seeking machine of the old Communist regime , and that it would be unfair virtually to close off their future just because they had n't yet properly learned another way of doing things . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Comite de Madres y Familiares de Presos , Desaparecidos y Asesinados Politicos de El Salvador , Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero was founded in 1977 by 12 mothers at a Christmas Eve supper offered to them by the late Archbishop . |
| 12 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 13 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 14 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 15 | The research will monitor what coping strategies governing bodies are using to deal with the tasks and responsibilities given to them by the new educational legislation and will also focus on the identification of power relations ( including gender and race/ethnicity ) , decision making processes and networks of influence operating in the eight governing bodies . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sadly , as I shall explain , the facts do not bear out the interpretation given to them by the Foreign Secretary . |
| 19 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 20 | Some geology departments do not offer M Sc degrees , others offer very few , and the relative ‘ value ’ placed on them by the awarding universities varies . |
| 21 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 22 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 23 | Authors who recognize the significance of manipulation , indoctrination , or ‘ conditioned power ’ ( Galbraith , 1985 ) believe that people may make mistakes in deciding what are their interests , and accept definitions of their interests foisted upon them by the powerful . |
| 24 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 25 | Once a femur or a forearm would have played a pure note if you 'd used one for a pipe , but the pieces would whistle harsh and offkey now from the holes bored into them by the efficient mandibles of her companions in the vertical grave , the cenote where they placed her after the battle , during the truce . |
| 26 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 27 | The truth is that without the assistance and support of local education authorities in helping schools manage the many drastic , rushed and ill conceived changes forced upon them by the Tory Government during the past 13 years , the education service would by now be in total disarray . |
| 28 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 29 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 30 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |