Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the authorities subsequent to Cumber v. Wane ( 1721 ) 1 Stra. 426 which were relied upon by the appellant at your Lordships ' Bar ( such as Sibree v. Tripp ( 1846 ) 15 M. & W. 23 ; Curlewis v. Clark ( 1849 ) 3 Exch. 375 and Goddard v. O'Brien ( 1882 ) 9 Q.B.D. 37 ) have proceeded upon the distinction that , by giving negotiable paper or otherwise , there has been some new consideration for a new agreement , distinct from mere money payments in or towards discharge of the original liability . |
| 2 | He considered the role of the Council members as delegates to be suggestive of agency , but concluded that agency was defeated by the literal wording of the contracts which were entered into by the third parties in the following terms : |
| 3 | With regard to the remit of the STUCC , which was referred to by the Hon. |
| 4 | The defendant was employed as a sales representative who sold the service of renovating and repairing office furniture and commercial seating and the judge correctly decided that that must be the business which was referred to by the restraint of trade clause . |
| 5 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 6 | Hall also describes the conservatism of collectors in American ( for example , the enthusiasm for late Rembrandt before World War I ) which was catered to by the leading dealers , many of whom , including Colnaghi 's , began to lag behind the more advanced taste for the Baroque that began to be expressed by museum curators . |
| 7 | It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . |
| 8 | Although we were sneered at by the arts and humanities students , those of us who were doing business studies felt , quite reasonably , that we were closer to the spirit of the age than the old hippies of the faculty . |
| 9 | They reached Blackheath , Kent , when they were fallen upon by the army of ten thousand prepared for the Scottish wars . |
| 10 | They are not kept thoroughly clean , as they were when they were looked after by the local authorities . |
| 11 | In 1986 Abdullah had vigorously suppressed unrest among black Mauritanians who claimed they were discriminated against by the Arab population [ see p. 35234 ] . |
| 12 | Before the stone had come to a halt it was pounced upon by the entire family who gleefully heaved the unfortunate lump of granite out through the back door and out of their lives ! |
| 13 | Thanks to the commission 's high reputation ( it was presided over by the present Federal Reserve chairman , Mr Alan Greenspan ) , this package was adopted . |
| 14 | It was paid for by the Coats family and cost a phenomenal £100,000 or £3,300,000 in 1990 terms . |
| 15 | It was paid for by the WRVS in conjunction with Northern Arts . |
| 16 | It was paid for by the county using money from the national Transport Road Research Laboratory . |
| 17 | Then one day he was sent for by the refining director and given twenty-four hours to make up his mind about a posting to the United States . |
| 18 | After his return he was sent for by the Mamluk sultan who wished to learn from him the state of affairs in Rum ; and he entered Cairo on either 4 Safar 823/19 February 1420 ( Ibn Hajar and al-Sayrafi ) or Tuesday 4 Rabi'I 823/Tuesday 19 March 1420 ( al-Makrizi . |
| 19 | He was cared for by the Sisters of Mercy at the Horsforth home for retired clergy . |
| 20 | He was cared for by the sisters of Bon Secours at Passy until his death 16 October 1886 , and was buried quietly in the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris . |
| 21 | On this occasion he was dealt with by the juvenile court for an offence of being a passenger in a stolen car or a car taken without authority and he received a conditional discharge . |
| 22 | Mr George Daszczuk was pinned to the ground and mauled for 15 minutes as he was set upon by the two dogs , which had chewed their way through the wooden door of a garage they were guarding . |
| 23 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 24 | I think he gave a figure of one pound , fifty nine was what was referred to by the phrase management charges in that sentence |