Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] by the [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was successfully recommended by the council to the Surrey electors in March 1553 , and served the county again in Mary I 's third and Elizabeth I 's first Parliaments . |
| 2 | The quality of the relationships is greatly affected by the approach to them and to the task adopted by the project manager . |
| 3 | Wessex , long ruled by the dynasty to which both Alfred and Æthelred belonged , submitted to Cnut late in 1015 , as it had to his father two years earlier . |
| 4 | With so much happening , and no central authority , Lorne and I were constantly harried by the attempt to film only the crucial events , which appeared to erupt spontaneously at any time of the day or night , while conserving the precious little film stock we had put aside for the intended Bugis film . |
| 5 | This view is not based on logic but is greatly influenced by the programming to which we have all been subject from day one of our lives . |
| 6 | It is surmised that he fell into the sea near Leith , perhaps overcome by the giddiness to which he was prone , following an attack of sunstroke in India . |
| 7 | I have been told that the companies were merely prompted by the orders to ’ review ’ their commercial strategy . |
| 8 | The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress . |
| 9 | But this school was not considered by the authorities to be a suitable place of safety . |
| 10 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 11 | This planned initiative runs alongside individual action and studies show that this system is not deemed by the teachers to be incompatible with their creative freedom ( Bjerke , 1983 ) . |
| 12 | The men it seems , were utterly overwhelmed by the need to be thus entreated and made a response so gallant , ( alas , unrecorded ) that the ladies in return ( on June 26th ) offered the ‘ Ladies ’ Cup ’ trophy ‘ in recognition of the kindnesses received ’ . |
| 13 | To her biographer , the meaning of all this was revealed over time and finally clarified by the letters to Ellen Doubleday . |
| 14 | We were not convinced by the arguments to the contrary . |
| 15 | It was found that gold leaf was generally used by the Romans to plate high-lead bronzes , although at later periods the choice of gilding method was not governed by the metal composition . |
| 16 | A famous letter written by Fulbert of Chartres to William V of Aquitaine rehearsed the duties of the vassal in terms deliberately chosen to be easily remembered by the warriors to whom it was to be read : |
| 17 | Being on duty was generally acknowledged by the team to be stressful and disruptive of one 's home life , but the figures indicated that in relation to referral and investigative work at least , the amount of time in active work was not great . |
| 18 | a rear fog lamp on a vehicle which is part of a combination of vehicles any part of which is not required by the Regulations to be fitted with a rear fog lamp ; |
| 19 | Changes in awareness might , therefore be more successfully measured by the degree to which such models are revised than by the extent to which behavioural objectives are achieved . |
| 20 | ( c ) Repayment of loans from settlors Where the capital sum paid to the settlor is a sum paid by way of complete repayment of a loan , then , if an amount not less than the sum is thereafter lent by the settlor to the trustees of the settlement , no part of that sum shall by virtue of TA 1988 , s677(1) be treated as his income for any year of assessment after that in which the further loan is made ( TA 1988 , s677(5) ) . |
| 21 | In Carmina Gadelica ( 1900 ) , Alexander Carmichael notes that ‘ St John 's wort is one of the few plants still cherished by the people to ward away second-sight , enchantment , witchcraft , evil eye , and death , and to ensure peace and plenty in the house , increase and prosperity in the field , and growth and fruition in the field ’ . |
| 22 | This natural phenomenon has forced human occupation , by all races since Canada was first inhabited , not just her French colonisation in the 16th century , into its disparate parts and localities , a situation further exacerbated by the Appalachians to the east and the Cordilleras to the west . |
| 23 | For example , in the experience of lawyers generally , use of the expression " salaried partner " will indicate that the person concerned is not a full equity partner in a firm ; but the lay client may naturally miss the significance of " salaried " and be more influenced by the reference to " partner " as indicating membership of the firm . |
| 24 | The deficiency was further illustrated by the reference to one co-author as a professor and the others as ‘ working in the same department ’ , a perfectly male way of expressing the relationship . |
| 25 | Only God , the cherubim , and the angels were ever meant by the Lord to be seen with bare feet . |
| 26 | Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier . |
| 27 | If the baby is still attached by the cord to the mother then she may take it . |
| 28 | The bath qol was an inferior substitute for the Word of God formerly given by the Spirit to a prophet . |
| 29 | For the two older children , both pupils at Kirkwall Grammar School , the same sort of ‘ pen portraits ’ were supplied by guidance staff , and were also considered by the parents to be woefully inadequate . |
| 30 | Decision process models are also affected by the degree to which brand loyalty has been built up and maintained , since brand loyalty speeds the individual through the decision process sequence , and lessens the degree to which alternative products or brands are evaluated . |