Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] they by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Under the heading , ’ Other Benefits ’ — uncosted — it said : ’ The further benefits from Nurse Prescribing are the benefits to patients of faster access to some prescription items and the benefits they will derive from additional items prescribed for them by District Nurses and Health Visitors . ’ |
| 2 | It will be suggested perhaps that , instead of simply feeling himself pulled between a thirst for new experience and a dread of losing his pension , a rational man would ponder conflicting principles , ‘ It is good to welcome new experience ’ and ‘ One ought not to risk one 's pension ’ , and judge between them by deducing from more general principles combined with verbally formulated facts about Bali and himself . |
| 3 | On his death in 1857 he left his books and manuscripts to Morden College , Blackheath , where they survive in a building designed for them by Philip Hardwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | and these would have made up for some of the others perhaps won for them by Lloyd George . |
| 5 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 6 | Several groups of Americans were turned away despite protests that tables had been booked for them by Čedok or by their hotels . |
| 7 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 8 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 9 | But the characters played by Leslie Banks in The Man Who Knew Too Much ( 1934 ) , or Robert Donat in The 39 Steps ( 1935 ) , are archetypically English in their capacity to muddle through , triumphing over the dark forces ranged against them by their flexibility of mind . |
| 10 | Susan Goldin-Meadow 's subjects were unacquainted deaf children ; but they had normal parents who did not try to communicate with them by gesture , or at least not in sequences as the children did : |
| 11 | High in the saddle rode the knights , resplendent in coloured surcoats , their slit-eyed helmets swinging from saddle bows , bannered lances carried before them by squires . |
| 12 | Today 's senior citizens may complain that they do not receive the respect or consideration that was expected from them by their parents , but most of them welcome the far more open and equal relationship which exist between them and their adult children . |
| 13 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 14 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 15 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 16 | Hence partners must inform the other partners of all personal profits which have accrued to them by virtue of their being partners . |
| 17 | They are also very confident people with a secure sense of their own identity , and are able to resist the various pressures brought to bear on them by friends , relatives and society . |
| 18 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 19 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 21 | That prompted judge Robert Watson from the USA to interject : ‘ Judges can only score a foul if it is reported to them by the referee . ’ |
| 22 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 23 | ( 5 ) A specific immunity , possessed by persons who have been charged with a criminal offence , from having questions material to the offence addressed to them by police officers or persons in a similar position of authority . |
| 24 | ( 5 ) A specific immunity , possessed by persons who have been charged with a criminal offence , from having questions material to the offence addressed to them by police officers or persons in a similar position of authority . |
| 25 | Derek Anderson , for example , showed considerable promise in a number of sports and was encouraged to work at them by his teachers , but , when asked whether he ever thought of making sport his eventual career , he replied : |
| 26 | Their refusal to face the fact that many schools want to opt out of having their budgeting done for them by remote administrators . |
| 27 | He is also puzzled by the fact that the Smyrna and Georgetown plants both have a pool of job applicants selected for them by their state governments before they make the final choice . |
| 28 | Children can find out these differences and we might encourage them to talk about them by posing such questions as : |
| 29 | Since politicians anyway now speak words written for them by androids , why should these glittering extras demand speaking parts ? |
| 30 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |