Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] [prep] it by " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fairly narrow meaning has been ascribed to it by the Court of Appeal : |
| 2 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 3 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 4 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 5 | Indeed , if I had thought that , I would no doubt have been disabused of it by last night 's debate , to which my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State , the hon. Member for Maidstone ( Miss Widdecombe ) so ably replied . |
| 6 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 7 | He had been led to it by his experience of the numinous , and by the exercise of his imagination . |
| 8 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |
| 9 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 10 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 11 | The truce with the Scots was , however , opposed by some of the northern nobility , whose personal interest lay in continuing the war , and it could be argued that Edward had been forced into it by another military humiliation and a political misjudgement . |
| 12 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 13 | Besides the Maya knew of the wheel — and how could they have done so unless they had been told about it by extraterrestrial visitors ? |
| 14 | There 's even a joke about the " reverse run " , which can happen when several people converge at speed towards the sound of a fallen durian , to find they have been beaten to it by a possessive and alcoholic tiger . |
| 15 | The history of ModE /a/ is a traditional bone of contention , and views have been expressed on it by a gallery of famous names from Henry Sweet onward ( for a review , see Lass , 1976 ) . |
| 16 | As in many similar Romantic writings on the left of the political spectrum , the working class is considered authentic by virtue of precisely those attributes which have been forced upon it by oppression from above . |
| 17 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 18 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 19 | The third main excuse for New York 's overspending is the way new tasks have been dumped on it by Albany and Washington . |