Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] by [art] [adj] " 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 | They were given tea and biscuits , invited to watch a favourite soap opera on the television , then made to listen to current hits from the charts played for them by a young man called Danny on his ghetto-blaster . |
| 3 | The common law provides quite an armoury of such principles , and new applications can be found for them by a bold judge . |
| 4 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a very different sense London Docklands was an invented place , a series of disparate communities which were united by the imperatives of a specific form of development chosen for them by an imposed Urban Development Corporation ( chapter 2 ) . |
| 10 | The sellers owned 200,000 gallons of white spirit stored for them by an independent person , X , in his tanks . |
| 11 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
| 12 | Battalion after battalion decimated solely by the bombardment would be replaced in the line by others , until these too had all effectiveness as a fighting unit crushed out of them by the murderous shelling . |
| 13 | I mean would n't you be absolutely pig sick of them by the first of December never mind christmas . |
| 14 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 15 | Far-reaching organisational changes were being forced upon many of them by the sheer growth of business , the sharpening of international rivalries and the accelerating pace of events . |
| 16 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 17 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 18 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 19 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 20 | It was not bonded to those below it by the neat filling of soil and small growth that bound all the rest , though it lay aligned precisely to fill the place it had surely filled for a year or more . |
| 21 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 22 | It is interesting to compare this intuitive vision with the more inhibited adaptation of it by a Greek artist at Paestum a decade or two later ( fig. 107 ) . |
| 23 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 24 | The development of the law along these lines is recent and confirmation of it by an august Commission is ominous . |
| 25 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 26 | There was blood everywhere , more of it by the second , and nothing they did seemed to stop it . |
| 27 | Quite apart from the drafting of contracts the task of the engineer involves a great deal of communication , much of it by the written word . |
| 28 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 29 | Via work arranged for you by a nursing agency . |
| 30 | If the insurance has been arranged for you by a Registered Insurance Broker and you are not satisfied with the way they have handled your insurance , you should contact the Insurance Brokers Registration Council , 15 St Helens ' Place , London EC3A 6DF . |