Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It remains to mention a point much relied upon by the applicant , namely that if section 2 stands unqualified , the investigation will continue in being , and hence the inquisitorial powers of the Director will continue to be exercisable , until the prosecution is either dropped , or concluded by a verdict . |
| 2 | Any repairs or replacements or renewals of furnishings are noted on the cards , and they are constantly referred to by the housekeeping and maintenance departments , whose responsibility it is to see that the room is maintained to the required standard . |
| 3 | He himself says that he was ‘ del ordre de freres menours ’ , and that he was ‘ ordenours ’ , which probably means that he had the right to administer absolution ( a right much sought after by the mendicants ) . |
| 4 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 5 | Jack enjoyed his early training and displayed the sort of ability much sought after by the Signal and Telegraph Department . |
| 6 | It 's an idyillic setting for a wedding … and one much sought after by the villagers of Lydiard Millicent near Swindon . |
| 7 | ‘ It would seem odd that facilities so much sought after by the community and approved by their legislators should be actionable at common law because they have been brought to the places where they are required and have escaped without negligence by an unforeseen series of mishaps . ’ |
| 8 | He was nevertheless much sought after by the people , his signature on documents , for example , being regarded as a good-luck charm . |
| 9 | Another emotion which is somewhat elaborated upon by the Chewong is that expressed by the word chan which I translate as anger or angry . |
| 10 | As restated by Lord Oliver in Caparo v Dickman ( cited at 14.11.1 ) at 383H — 384B , the duty is as follows : ( 1 ) the advice must be required for a purpose , whether particularly specified or generally described , which is made known , either actually or inferentially , to the adviser when the advice is given ; ( 2 ) the adviser knows , either actually or inferentially , that the advice will be communicated to the " advisee " , either specifically or as a member of an ascertainable class , in order that it should be used by the advisee for that purpose ; ( 3 ) it is known , either actually or inferentially , that the advice so communicated is likely to be acted upon by the advisee for that purpose without further inquiry ; and ( 4 ) it is so acted upon by the advisee to his detriment . |
| 11 | Additionally , since such agreements are usually only entered into by the seller with his most important customers , the special negotiation of a set of terms and conditions of supply is worth the effort of both sides , and , incidentally , is the best way of avoiding the battle of the forms . |
| 12 | Their efforts were swiftly dealt with by the police and in the late 1870s , unable to mobilize peasant revolt , they became increasingly conscious that class struggle could not be divorced from political struggle . |
| 13 | But the question of refugee status for Bosnian patients after treatment was evaded by the Minister and diplomatically dealt with by the boy 's mother . |
| 14 | Sorry , my my my other point is about about Ryedale , and and and its its and its its unde its relationship to Southern Ryedale , and erm Mr Smith said that erm as far as Ryedale Council are concerned they ca n't identify any more land within Southern Ryedale , well of course they would say that because was there position at the Southern Ryedale plan , but the fact of the matter is that there was a great dispute at the York greenbelt Southern Ryedale plan enquiry , revol resolving around the issue of what were the bits of the greenbelt which made up the historic character and thereby what were you left with that potentially could be developed , albeit it might be reserved as white land in the first place , but could potentially be developed , and a great deal of this land on the disputed side lay in Southern Ryedale , that in that in fact there was a view around the table not only sh not only shared by by the developers side , but erm that large parts of Osbaldwick and Huntingdon did n't fall within the definition of greenbelt as as set out by by the County Council in their N Y Two Two document , now that matter clearly has got to be something left to the Inspector and the Greenbelt Inquiry , but I think it 's fair to point out that there is actually a difference of view , so it 's not an absolute position , that you ca n't identify more land within within Southern Ryedale , and indeed , erm , not that I want to raise the Local Government Commission 's head again , but of course the Local Government Commission is proposing that York be a unitary authority expanded , and once Yor , if York does become a unitary authority expanded then some of these areas will fall within their area , and they may have a different view than er the Ryedale current Ryedale district council does , and therefore I think it is a little unsafe to take just at pure se pure face value , that there is no more land within Southern Ryedale that could be developed . |
| 15 | The picture was completed only in 1971 when children with severe learning difficulties , hitherto provided for by the health authorities , were brought into the education service . |
| 16 | The two groups of villagers engage in a rough and tumble battle , and a peaceful settlement was only arrived at by the intervention of the schoolmasters from both villages . |
| 17 | The omission of the words is , however , sufficiently accounted for by the fact that they were part of the definition of the trespassory taking which it was a principal object of the [ Theft Act 1968 ] to abolish . |
| 18 | If such crimes really are entirely accounted for by the possession of abnormal motives propelling their possessors into crime regardless of any other considerations , then it does not really possess the features that usually class actions as ‘ crimes ’ ; rather , it would belong in some alternative category , such as mental illness . |
| 19 | An organism 's phenotype was thus believed to be almost entirely accounted for by the sum of these two apparently independent variables . |
| 20 | Spinoza was , in any case , little attended to by the moralists of this period . |
| 21 | The figures were laboriously commented upon by the commentators and detracted from one 's concentration on the game . |
| 22 | And it may be that the warning of Cordell Hull was designed , among other things , to make it clear that , should Turkey finally decide to become a belligerent , she must do so in conformity with plans already agreed upon by the Allies themselves . |
| 23 | Presentations in the hands of the Crown were normally disposed of by the county member in a manner agreeable to the majority of the heritors , although obviously the wishes of political friends would have the greatest weight , but that in itself could be troublesome , for by the later eighteenth century the Treasury was imposing its own rather rigid rules . |
| 24 | Since much of the information relevant to scoring is linguistic in nature , it is really best dealt with by the CLE . |
| 25 | But one of the great ironies of the second world war was that the freedom and democracy that was won back in Western Europe was largely paid for by the blood of Russians . |
| 26 | Although at first sight , therefore , it seems that there was a strong age-related gradient in the overall net income of elderly people , the effect was largely accounted for by the dissolution of married-couple households when husbands died , leaving widows significantly worse off not only than married couples , but also than men living on their own . |
| 27 | The increased sensitivity of cattle stealing to hardship may be largely accounted for by the fact that at this time more cattle stealing was carried out casually , mostly for immediate consumption as beef . |
| 28 | This clause was expressly agreed to by the shipper-consignor and the carrier at the moment of issuance of the CKR and to be effective had to be noted in the original or master bill of lading . |
| 29 | He is once referred to by the chronicler , Matthew Paris [ q.v. ] , as ‘ Master Longespee ’ and it is thus possible that he was a son of William Longespée , third Earl of Salisbury ( died 1226 , q.v. ) , who was Henry III 's uncle . |
| 30 | Always referred to by the locals as ‘ the Spanish ’ , they had their own school ( where the Hotel Monte Carlo is now situated ) and the New Year 's Eve parties here were particularly popular . |