Example sentences of "[prep] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other child is still being looked after by the parents who took her home . |
| 2 | Baby Two is still being looked after by the parents who took it home . |
| 3 | The second period covers the time from May nineteen ninety until now when the plaintiff has been solely looked after by the parents with the greatest devotion , application , selflessness and skill superimposed on their natural love and affection for the plaintiff . |
| 4 | The family had always been interested in the leather trade , indeed as far back as eighteen hundred and fourteen er , our ancestors were tanners in the south country , and we make an article known as Hooper 's saddle food , which is much sought after by the saddlers , and other people using similar sort of leathers . |
| 5 | The Malvern Hills have been looked after by the Conservators for around one hundred and ten years.Now they 're asking Parliament for more powers.And it 's that request which has led to controversy . |
| 6 | He himself says that he was ‘ del ordre de freres menours ’ , and that he was ‘ ordenours ’ , which probably means that he had the right to administer absolution ( a right much sought after by the mendicants ) . |
| 7 | The seneschal looked briefly at the quivering attendant being looked after by the others , then he shrugged and said something to the under-cook , who quickly got back down off the stool and turned to the others . |
| 8 | It 's an idyillic setting for a wedding … and one much sought after by the villagers of Lydiard Millicent near Swindon . |
| 9 | Furthermore women are now sought after by the unions which are themselves trying to raise women 's consciousness . |
| 10 | The men of the family always formed a very solid front to the outside world , and at times to their womenfolk , and as it had been the custom among their people for children to be looked after by the men on the mother 's side of the family , especially if a brother had no issue of his own , they did n't see why the sisters were making such a fuss . |
| 11 | In some of the larger and older predator fish concentrations of methyl mercury can be very high need , and of course these are precisely the fish that are most sort after by the fishermen and by their customers . |
| 12 | Walker ( 1988 ) , in a study which looked at the race of young males disposed of by the courts in London in 1983 , found that of those prosecuted , more blacks had their case dismissed without trial due to insufficient evidence , suggesting according to Walker , that either ‘ … the police more readily prosecute black people ’ , or that ‘ the court requires more convincing evidence for black defendants ’ ( Walker 1988 , p.459 ) . |
| 13 | However , over the years , Parliament and the courts have intervened to mitigate the harshness of the situation and certain terms are now implied into sale of goods and similar contracts , whilst exclusion clauses have been disapproved of by the courts , especially if such clauses are demonstrably unfair . |
| 14 | Attempts by the Orthodox clergy to convert the indigenous peoples , mainly shamanists , to Christianity were in some case approved of by the authorities , but generally in the period under study there was a reluctance to permit the baptism of natives , since they then ceased to pay yasak . |
| 15 | Although unfortunately details of the projects are tantalizingly hard to ascertain , at least two attempts were made after 1888 by the Edinburgh Typographical Society to set up a women 's union , The first , in the late 1880s , is referred to only in the retrospective " statement on the Female Question " , published in 1904 ; Miss Black of London [ who must have been Clementina Black ] a lady who was well-known for her efforts to improve the social condition of her sex , offered to make an endeavour to organise the female compositors in Edinburgh , with a view to remedying the evils complained of by the journeymen . |
| 16 | The headmaster may if he think proper read each day on the opening of school such prayers as may have been previously approved of by the Governors , but no sectarian comments nor any doctrinal teaching may be allowed in the school . " |
| 17 | The demoralisation generated by the occupation was taken full advantage of by the Communists to establish a socialist republic . |
| 18 | That is a middle term undreamed of by the founders of classical logic . |
| 19 | A sperm whale , for example , can not see directly fore and aft , a factor made use of by the mariners of old , who quietly crept up upon them from straight astern or dead ahead . |
| 20 | Loud music , complained of by the neighbours on shore , thumped and echoed from cheerful Bluebird on the middle Reach . |
| 21 | Over 90% of hazardous waste is disposed of by the manufacturers who generate it . |
| 22 | However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life . |
| 23 | Knocked something behind by the looks of it |
| 24 | In the family proceedings court the application may be dealt with by a justices ' clerk . |
| 25 | On the other hand , it will be argued that the large number of arrests points to a malaise of such dimensions that it can not completely be dealt with by a police investigation and that a wider inquiry is called for . |
| 26 | What the Act will do is to ensure that the child offender who is dealt with by a children 's hearing may not be asked , and if asked need not answer , questions about ‘ spent ’ offences in , for example , applications for employment . |
| 27 | There are also various other matters that are dealt with by the magistrates . |
| 28 | There are many different bodies in the country who seek to recover levies from individuals or companies and these matters are invariably dealt with by the Magistrates ' Court . |
| 29 | It follows that any significant increase in the number of defendants who are committed for trial to the Crown Court instead of being dealt with by the magistrates will itself engender further delays and so add to the growing remand problem . |
| 30 | The bureaux will be in operation nationwide by the end of the year and offenders will be dealt with by the courts . |