Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a considerable increase in the number of night visits claimed for by general practitioners since the introduction of their 1990 contract , which brought two changes to the relevant payment structure . |
| 2 | At age eleven I had gone away from my parents ' school to a boarding school in Herefordshire , and remembered crying miserably as my mother and father drove off down the drive , leaving me to be looked after by one of the older boys . |
| 3 | What would I have done , I would have asked her to er get out of the bed , walk towards me and come out into the hall way where she could have been looked after by one of the other officers , and al allow me to get on with my main task in hand . |
| 4 | That is now over and she is being looked after by foster parents . |
| 5 | But he gave an account of having grown up being looked after by black servants because both his parents worked , and he claimed that , after they had separated , a black housekeeper named Evelyn became almost a mother-figure to him . |
| 6 | He was lodged , at some expense , in a progressive asylum where he would be looked after by skilled doctors , but his condition did not improve . |
| 7 | The Santuario was looked after by Dominican monks , and they were a pretty shrewd lot when it came to business . |
| 8 | Let him get used to being looked after by other people , but make sure they understand how he should sit and move . |
| 9 | 50% thought that they should be looked after by social services rather than hospitals , with 34% opting for hospitals . |
| 10 | Or , thirdly , arrangements whereby the needy are increasingly looked after by voluntary and charitable activities . |
| 11 | The 1989 Children Act imposes new , more stringent regulations for planning and reviewing the experiences of children looked after by local authorities . |
| 12 | If you can not manage on your own or with family and friends , or if you prefer not to involve them , you can ask for your child to be looked after by local authority foster parents for a short or longer period . |
| 13 | Arrangements for returning the child should be included in the written agreement which must be made in respect of all children who are looked after by local authorities ( see Chapter 16 , 4 ) . |
| 14 | In fact , it is better for both of you if the patient is looked after by several people rather than yourself alone , even if you are not at work and could be with him all day every day . |
| 15 | Proceeds will go towards the vital restoration and conservation of historic properties looked after by English Heritage ’ . |
| 16 | Their parents pay $8.00 a term ( about £5.00 ) to have them looked after by smart African ladies . |
| 17 | Once you 've chopped off the top ten , there are mass mi middle , medium sized P L C's , the nine million to fifty million turnover er company and they 're looked after by some by major firms , some more often than not by the second tier firms , so we can see very much and we can penetrate those er that middle market situation , then these are the companies in the future that will er will probably be the big P L C's and also these it will be easier to get into these organisations er with the services that we have to look through to offer . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh horrible creatures , ’ cried Dame Edna with feeling , ‘ to think my darling mother was being looked after by those fiends . |
| 19 | Most of us would prefer when ill or very elderly to be looked after by those we know and love rather than taken to a strange and unfamiliar place . |
| 20 | My er , circumstances are entirely different , I am the person who 's being cared for and my husband died in nineteen eighty seven , and my son in nineteen eighty eight and I was left with my young son , and he looked after me on his own , and then my daughter who li , I was living in Ireland , my daughter lived in England , and she decided it was n't good enough that it should all be left to him , so we had a long talk and we discussed it at length for two weeks at Christmas , and then they all moved Sou , over here , we got a house in Scotland , and I 'm looked after by my young son and my daughter , and since then a year ago my daughter got married , her husband moved in and he looks after me as well , so I 'm looked after by three young adults . |
| 21 | Women in socially subordinated categories are specially likely to be discriminated against by individual-oriented methods , or to be studied socially . |
| 22 | On a separate issue , Mr Bradley — implicitly acknowledging booksellers ' concerns about the need for a ‘ level playing field ’ in dealings between themselves and publishers — said that publishers should attempt to avoid putting booksellers ‘ into a position in which they are discriminated against by other deals ’ . |
| 23 | They alleged that black teachers were discriminated against by white administrators , and that the denominational boards showed intolerance toward those teachers whose religious beliefs conflicted with their own . |
| 24 | The latter are usually discriminated against by overt racist language which denigrates a person 's colour and ethnic background . |
| 25 | His name has been moderately conjured with by British academics , but there have been few attempts to systematize his work for the classroom , as has happened in the United States . |
| 26 | In London the needs of people from ethnic groups are being looked into by other organisations like the Standing Conference of Ethnic Minority Senior Citizens ( address on page 155 ) . |
| 27 | Many such crimes are looked into by special regulatory bodies rather than the police . |
| 28 | There have been persistent reports of understaffing at Strangeways , is that one of the issues that will be looked into by this Inquiry ? |
| 29 | Two particularly charming works are ‘ Le jaloux dort ’ by Antoine Borel in which a scantily-clad woman slips out of the bed where her husband is sleeping soundly and into the arms of her lover , and ‘ Les Baigneuses ’ by Etienne Leguay , depicting an all-female bathing party spied upon by three men with telescopes . |
| 30 | The transitional zone in Burgess ' model , consists of mixed and changing land-use , with terrace housing being encroached upon by light industry . |