Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly perishing on the moors , she is taken in and cared for by the Reverend St John Rivers and his sisters Mary and Diana . |
| 2 | Here are the charts , as voted for by the readers of the disk-magazine Remark : |
| 3 | These were looked after by the Board of Works — the lineal descendant of the Office of the King 's Works , which built many of the castles and palaces which its successor bodies , including Historic Scotland , now care for . |
| 4 | In a smaller company , the pension scheme may be looked after by the company secretary or managing director . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It employs 1,000 people now , just as it did in 1981 , but in the intervening years it has had to take on far more duties — most notably the upkeep of its building which was looked after by the government from 1816 to 1988 . |
| 7 | As soon as they 're installed in the Green Room , guests are looked after by the Floor Manager . |
| 8 | More recently , White Parks have been exported to other parts of the USA and also to Canada , Australia , Denmark and France , but they are a precious resource and carefully looked after by the breed society which was formed in 1983 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Ordering replenishment and display may be looked after by the publisher and this can lift a lot of the administrative burden of stock control from the shop , although they are normally offered only where sales justify it . |
| 11 | The other child is still being looked after by the parents who took her home . |
| 12 | Baby Two is still being looked after by the parents who took it home . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Blake , now aged 67 , has been well looked after by the KGB and lives in considerable comfort with his second wife Ida and their son Mischa . |
| 15 | Up to now they have been well looked after by the Pakistan government and established in villages of 50,000 to 60,000 people . |
| 16 | Her name was She-Who-Is-Alone and she had been looked after by the tribe since her parents and grandparents died in the famine . |
| 17 | I think er the supporters like to be er looked after by the sort of their own people rather than er the the police force . |
| 18 | It was also nice for our three children , because it was surrounded by a garden that was looked after by the College gardeners . |
| 19 | ( e ) Support for children away from home Local authorities have a duty to protect the welfare of any child in need within their area who is living apart from his family but is not being looked after by the authority ( Sched 2 , para 10 ) . |
| 20 | Some of the mosaics have been lost during the centuries but much remains and is carefully looked after by the Ravenna authorities . |
| 21 | It is as much a benefit for the father to have the child looked after by the mother as by a neighbour . |
| 22 | In their absence Pete will be looked after by the Bible College 's bursar and husband in Malton . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If American collectors are discriminated against by the record companies , as described in Mr Newman 's letter ( May ) , we in Australia fare far worse . |
| 26 | The Albanians of Yugoslavia ( not only those in Kosovo but also elsewhere , especially in Macedonia ) consider themselves to be an oppressed people , who have always been discriminated against by the Serbs , whether under the monarchy or under communist rule . |
| 27 | The views of teachers were amongst the matters looked into by the Sheffield University team when carrying out research for the Elton Committee . |
| 28 | The issue has been looked into by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Office of Fair Trading . |
| 29 | My right hon. Friend was right to air on the Floor of the House a matter which , however specific — no doubt it is being looked into by the authorities and by the police — |
| 30 | The paper was to be voted upon by the board on May 4th . |