Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides this , both the Data Protection Act ( 1984 ) , which applies to computers , and the Access to Personal Files Act ( 1987 ) give people a statutory right of access to information held about them by the Social Work Department . |
| 2 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 3 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 4 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 5 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |
| 6 | The new rich who were building new houses were only too happy to have their aesthetic decisions made for them by the ‘ professionals ’ . |
| 7 | Indeed , Eoin O'Duffy , who led an Irish contingent to Spain to help Franco , maintained that they had gone to fight the battle of Christianity against Communism , a view which was confirmed for them by the Irish Dominican father , Revd Paul O' Sullivan when he said : |
| 8 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 9 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 10 | Economic management was largely a matter of measuring resources of manpower and materials and adjudicating between bids made for them by the armed services and the major industries . |
| 11 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
| 12 | Make a table , ranking the prey species ( a ) in their order of abundance and ( b ) in order of the preference shown for them by the dog-whelks . |
| 13 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 14 | Why not rescue them from the hell hole created for them by the Government ? |
| 15 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 16 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |
| 17 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 18 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 19 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 20 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 21 | I have a strictly limited choice of action , and the extent of the choice is determined for me by the constraints of my physical environment . |
| 22 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 23 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 24 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 25 | We also reveal much about ourselves by the way we dress and by our hair styles . |
| 26 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 27 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 28 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 29 | And she got hold of me by the neck like th I told you to go to school did n't I . |
| 30 | ‘ Francesca 's got four brothers , see , two of them professional singers , two of them by the grace of God ordinary working stiffs in respectable offices . ’ |