Example sentences of "to them by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less consciously , their desire was for a baby to be given to them by a symbolic mother ( the female doctor ) . |
| 2 | Two loyal members of the Hunt , a hawk-faced lady and a meeker male partner , his coat a warm flame in the dark crevice where they sat , took their tickets , and money from Dada , and handed programmes , a Hunt button engraved on their backs and a tiny pencil attached to them by a red string . |
| 3 | The Comite de Madres y Familiares de Presos , Desaparecidos y Asesinados Politicos de El Salvador , Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero was founded in 1977 by 12 mothers at a Christmas Eve supper offered to them by the late Archbishop . |
| 4 | Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city . |
| 5 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 6 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 7 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 9 | Sadly , as I shall explain , the facts do not bear out the interpretation given to them by the Foreign Secretary . |