Example sentences of "[prep] by [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are looked after by teams of directly employed cleaners , under the control of a hygiene officer . |
| 2 | The Prince was visiting handicapped children being looked after by members of his father 's award scheme . |
| 3 | There was still the original village , of course , now known as Old Yonder , and barely heard of by outsiders until the building of Riverside General Hospital on the outskirts . |
| 4 | Lice , made much of by combatants on other fronts , receive little mention . |
| 5 | The people who continue to be discriminated against by employers with regard to pay , holidays , redundancies , working conditions , pensions , maternity rights etcetera . |
| 6 | It is suggested therefore that photocopying , faxing and catering for meetings , which require a minimum of training , are dealt with by members of the Typing Pool . |
| 7 | This requires that the machine be placed on a surface such that the tray is not constantly collided with by passers by . |
| 8 | One inescapable consequence of operating a highly discretionary decision-making process is a marked degree of disparity in the way similar offenders are dealt with by sentencers in different parts of the country . |
| 9 | In any event , it would be pointless to define as legal problems only those which are actually dealt with by lawyers for that would exclude all those problems which never reach them , but perhaps should . |
| 10 | Because of the nature of the problems dealt with by departments of genito-urinary medicine , the questions asked by the doctor at the interview tend to be of an intimate nature . |
| 11 | Finally , although arms control and disarmament have generally been dealt with by states in specific agreements , the progress ( or lack of progress ) on the outlawing of weapons has clearly been linked to the progress made in identifying weaponry whose use is illegal . |
| 12 | He feels very strongly that such a case should in future be dealt with by assessors in an open court . |
| 13 | The incident was dealt with by firemen from Darlington . |
| 14 | The incident was dealt with by firemen from Darlington . |
| 15 | The five ephors , magistrates , gave a preliminary hearing to ambassadors too , and had some powers of euthuna ( review of conduct engaged in by officers of state ) . |
| 16 | ‘ effectiveness ’ and ‘ economy ’ were also used ; the meaning of these terms , especially the first two , has not always been agreed upon by writers in the context of LMS . |
| 17 | The costs of the preferred British Rail route have risen from £1.7bn to between £3.5bn and £4bn partly because of extra tunnelling insisted upon by ministers after protests in south London and Kent . |
| 18 | Both are essentially private activities decided upon by persons within the household or in small groups and involve the deepest and most fundamental concerns in life . |
| 19 | The doubts that now exist over costings will be seized upon by opponents of reform who continue to argue that the case for change has not been made . |
| 20 | All morning she had been watching low-slung , sharp-nosed cars complete several circuits , then draw into the pits to be set upon by swarms of mechanics and subjected to intensive fine-tuning . |
| 21 | Marriage today is seen as a matter for the couples themselves and not something to be decided upon by members of some wider kinship grouping . |
| 22 | His book offers a wealth of pleasurable activities which have been seized upon by teachers as the ‘ five finger exercises ’ of creative drama . |
| 23 | Mr Meacher indicated that a Labour government would be likely to set up new industrial courts presided over by judges with experience in industrial relations and two lay ‘ assessors ’ — one employer and one trade unionist who would advise the judge . |
| 24 | This benefit can be direct or indirect and is sometimes referred to by lawyers as ‘ consideration ’ . |
| 25 | These are referred to by researchers as attitudes , values , beliefs and opinions . |
| 26 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 27 | The almost inherent suspicion the police have of strangers was in the RUC 's case added to by worries about whether their personal security would be compromised and concern over the intentions of the police management . |
| 28 | For the last six months the momentum has grown we 've been lectured to by ex-leaders of the Party by ex-parliamentary stars by Give-us-a-Meal Roy by budding prima donnas by the wagon-load , telling us how we should be gagged ! |
| 29 | And of course British capitalism was by this stage a very different capitalism from that of the inter-war years : a social formation in which the organised working class , as organised in the trade unions , was at least consulted and listened to by governments as a matter of course , and in which the major political forces took for granted the obligation to minimise unemployment and to preserve and expand the welfare state . |
| 30 | The general principle on which response-cost is based , is referred to by psychologists as negative reinforcement . |