Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Payment of that sum and other monies from the Deanses to the club was referred to by the outgoing financial director , Clive Scott . |
| 2 | This is all very well but the only men my light was shining upon by the end of last week were Swotty Cyril and a few disgruntled Teachers . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the pilot of Beyond Our Ken was listened to by the BBC mandarins , who decided they liked a great deal about it and decreed it would definitely become a radio series . |
| 4 | ‘ WACC 's lead in championing and highlighting such concerns was alluded to by the President of IAMCR , Prof Cees Hamelink , as well as by other researchers from both the North and the South , ’ Mr Thomas added . |
| 5 | Administratively Korea was dealt with by the Colonial Ministry until 1942 when the Home Ministry assumed responsibility . |
| 6 | Vagueness was resorted to by the judge in Jenkins v Reid in order to explain why a reformulation of a clause was unacceptable and in Gledhow Autoparts Ltd v Delaney [ 1965 ] 1 WLR 1366 Dankwerts LJ criticised the phrase " districts in which the traveller had operated " as being too vague especially as instructions given as to where he should work were purely oral . |
| 7 | Thus far it can be argued that , if and in so far as the objection to the validity of a pretended Act of Parliament is purely procedural , there is no objection to any court ( and not merely the House of Lords ) making such minimal inquiries as are consistent with Parliamentary privilege in order to ensure that the instrument in question was consented to by the two Houses and did receive the Royal Assent . |
| 8 | And doubtless when unarmed Republicans were set upon by the same force in Derry in 1968 you , Mr. Tully , were at home swotting up on some useless pop facts . |
| 9 | Some such stations were paid for by the nobleman and maintained by him . |
| 10 | The compartments were referred to by the ordinal numbers from 1 ( apex ) to 5 ( base ) and the labelling index calculated for each compartment . |
| 11 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 12 | This crisis was seized upon by the nuclear power lobby with Messianic zeal . |
| 13 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 14 | The sponsored event was referred to by the NDO . |
| 15 | The historic debate which led to the adoption of the new name was presided over by the Rev Alan Mackenzie who had become Chairman in 1967 . |
| 16 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 17 | Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome . |
| 18 | Tournaments were frowned upon by the church but in banning them Henry was not doing as he was told by the Pope ; rather he was , as so often , following in the footsteps of his grandfather , Henry J. They were clearly a threat to public order . |
| 19 | On August 2nd , 1951 , 48-year old Mrs Mabel Tattershaw was spoken to by the man next to her in the Roxy Cinema , Nottingham . |
| 20 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 21 | The minor drop in sales was accounted for by the Guardian joint disaster recovery venture with ICL ( CI No 1,664 ) but is not considered serious . |
| 22 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |
| 23 | A prerequisite to making such an order is that the court is satisfied that the transaction was entered into by the debtor for the purpose either of putting assets beyond the reach of a person who is making , or may at some time make , a claim against him , or of otherwise prejudicing the interests of such a person in relation to such a claim : subsection ( 3 ) . |
| 24 | The chief engineer 's department remained in the old CEB headquarters , and Hacking and Pask were looked upon by the divisions as the engineering heads of the industry , but the division of responsibilities at the top of the BEA , as we have seen , envisaged a role also for Self , as the deputy chairman in charge of administration ( pp. 12–13 , above ) . |
| 25 | It was the special contribution of the ILEA , and in particular of the advisory team headed by Mr Leslie Ryder , that it considered what types of ancillary personnel were called for by the new methods , and their training and enter.relationships . |
| 26 | In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king . |
| 27 | Declining mine output in Anglesey , opposition by Birmingham consumers , and an improving international copper market prevented the monopoly persisting , but Williams continued to influence the industry strongly till his death , and his activities were looked at by the select committee on the copper trade of 1799 . |
| 28 | As he said , two of those motorway crossings were paid for by the taxpayer . |
| 29 | 13 other travellers were dealt with by the court for a variety of motoring offences arising out of the Castlemorton event . |
| 30 | Initially only orphaned , abandoned or destitute children were cared for by the state ; then those who were cruelly treated or delinquent ; and today any child who is deprived of normal home life on a temporary or permanent basis . |