Example sentences of "[adv] to [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corporate approach demands , as Bains outlined , a central focus in both departmental and committee structures , and John Stewart has argued that this does not lead necessarily to domination by officers or to policies favourable to any particular groups in society . |
| 2 | Teaching by subject led naturally to organization by subjects , and to the almost baronial power of heads of department within the system . |
| 3 | By a letter dated 23 October 1991 they stated that they did not intend to intervene or be heard and that , since the paragraph applied only to disclosure by the defendants in compliance with the order it would not prevent them from using any material which they had already obtained or which they might obtain independently . |
| 4 | Attempts to protect the American economy by raising tariff rates , as in the Hawley-Smoot tariff of 1930 , led only to retaliation by other countries against American goods . |
| 5 | The disability discrimination provisions of the federal Rehabilitation Act 1973 were modelled upon the sex and race discrimination measures of Title VII in the Civil Rights Act 1964 , but applied only to employment by the federal government , by federal contractors and by employers in federally-financed programmes and activities . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal , that section 69(1) of the Housing Act 1985 imposed a duty on housing authorities to exercise their discretion in deciding what constituted suitable accommodation for persons whom they had a duty to house under section 65(2) of the Act ; that any decision on suitability necessarily depended on the circumstances prevailing at the time and called for a subjective judgment by a housing authority to be made before the performance of the executive act of securing suitable accommodation for an applicant ; and that the duty imposed by section 69(1) was to be exercised by housing authorities subject only to challenge by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court , and not on their merits by an action in the county court ( post , pp. 213E–H , 214B–C , 218A–C ) . |
| 7 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 8 | Khrushchev could never forgive him for the cruelties and stupidities that brought Russia so close to defeat by Hitler . |
| 9 | It was , the classic New Zealand manoeuvre , the line-out won from the top by Martin Bayfield , the ball moved quickly to midfield by Aadel Kardooni , carried vigorously into the heart of the opposing forwards by Victor Ubogu , and then returned to the backs going left . |
| 10 | He was subsequently invited home to dinner by the Daltons . |
| 11 | The following scenario was typical : government introduces social scheme balanced to meet Liberal and Unionist influence in government , but tilted slightly to Liberalism by the minister in charge ; Unionists in the House of Commons wreck the plan and denounce the waste of public money ; government withdraws the scheme and is then accused of unprincipled change of front by Unionists . |
| 12 | Inside the studio we were brought back sharply to reality by a studio audience , all of whom shared two characteristics . |
| 13 | In the hall one of the walls was given over entirely to a tiled picture of Christ displaying His Sacred Heart ; another depicted the Blessed Virgin being carried upwards to Heaven by a host of angels , and a third was of St Anthony holding a lily and looking tenderly down at the beholder . |
| 14 | But you muste prove yourself to do som thynges that you were never taught , or else you shall not be able to doo any more than you were taught , and were rather to learne by rote than by reason . |
| 15 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 16 | The revellers in the foyer , who included some of the more anxious in decorous nightwear , were shooed upstairs to bed by Alastair Goodlad , once the Party 's deputy Chief Whip , whose butlerian rotundity made him quite admirably suited to the task . |
| 17 | These 14th Century tales are brought vividly to life by the latest audio-visual technology and the voices of the following celebrities : Roy Kinnear , Prunella Scales , Robert Powell , Ronald Pickup , Bernard Cribbins and Geoffrey Banks . |
| 18 | We are getting closer and closer to entry by examination only . |
| 19 | All this suggests that , one way or another , both institutions will be brought more closely to heel by their big shareholders . |
| 20 | Despite a firm diagnosis being given , 25 ( 33% ) patients were referred again to hospital by their general practitioner . |