Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle there was no distinction between indirect interference at the first stage and such interference at a remoter stage , but the more indirect and remote the interference , the more difficult it may be to establish on the facts that A did intend to interfere with the particular contract relied on by the plaintiff and that that interference was a necessary consequence of A 's wrongful act . |
| 2 | The difficulty is that the violence referred to by the subsection must be immediate ‘ unlawful ’ violence , and a person is entitled to employ a certain amount of force in the protection of his property . |
| 3 | The same is true of free , fit , apt , able , etc. , all of which denote a quality in the person designated as the support which predisposes him to realize the action referred to by the infinitive in a certain way . |
| 4 | The deal is not affected by this week 's decision to slow down part of the emergency aid agreed upon by the Twelve in December because of the repression in the Baltic republics . |
| 5 | But Malone could land in more hot water after publicly criticising ref Herbie Barr — an action frowned upon by the IFA . |
| 6 | Although the Minister 's Department has refused to countenance such a review in the past , I beg him to think again and announce today that the Government will undertake the urgent review called for by the NACAB and many hon. Members . |
| 7 | The public security bureau provided the immediate action called for by the students . |
| 8 | An operation by Turkey to divert the flow of the Euphrates river away from Syria and Iraq in order to fill the reservoir behind the newly constructed Ataturk dam ( believed to be the fifth largest in the world ) was begun on Jan. 13 in a ceremony presided over by the Turkish President , Turgut Özal . |
| 9 | It is the risk to public order inherent in the defendant 's words or conduct that represents the harm struck at by the section . |
| 10 | Bazin , for his part , pledged his willingness to talk to Aristide while making no mention of his being restored to the presidency , a condition insisted upon by the Organization of American States ( OAS ) before the current US-backed trade embargo could be lifted [ see p. 38905 ] . |
| 11 | Was the was the lawyer paid for by the union ? |
| 12 | Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment . |
| 13 | During the previous summer , Coleman had acted as technical adviser to the Cypriot Police Force Narcotics Squad ( CPFNS ) and helped train its officers in the use of communications , surveillance and other electronic gear paid for by the United Nations Fund for Drug Abuse Control ( UNFDAC ) . |
| 14 | It is as much a benefit for the father to have the child looked after by the mother as by a neighbour . |
| 15 | Yet this has not been the only old law turned to by the police . |
| 16 | The agreement , which would supersede a two-year virtual wage freeze [ see p. 36241 ] , was in line with the ceiling called for by the government as part of its economic programme . |
| 17 | If PP is set outside the range allowed for by the selected format , it is taken as 9 . |
| 18 | At CPFNS headquarters near the Nicosia Hilton , a cupboardful of expensive audio and video equipment paid for by the UN Fund for Drug Abuse Control was gathering dust and Hurley was anxious to get it out in the field , even though wiretaps were strictly illegal in Cyprus . |
| 19 | For most the only alternative is a flight home paid for by the German government and a DM3,000 ‘ golden handshake ’ they 'll be forced to convert into dong ( at the artificial official rate ) on arrival . |
| 20 | Fixed-term contracts may make provision for employees on leave to have their passage(s) to and from home paid for by the employer . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Two years later the tax was extended to include Nonconformist registrations — a move petitioned for by the Dissenting churches themselves , who welcomed the official sanction of their records . |
| 23 | One child volunteers to leave the room where she is to touch an article agreed upon by the other players . |
| 24 | This was the first point dealt with by the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 25 | Determined to maintain the authority of the president , in 1766 he overruled the appointment of a new steward ( who oversaw the domestic arrangements of the college ) made at a meeting presided over by the vice-president , having persuaded eight of the senior fellows to protest at the action and ruling that the proceedings were contrary to statute . |
| 26 | For present purposes it does not appear to matter ; the word ‘ appropriate ’ does not on either interpretation acquire the meaning contended for by the Crown . |
| 27 | Table 9.2 ( columns 1 and 2 ) indicates that the share of UK GDP accounted for by the South East , the South West , East Anglia , the East Midlands and Northern Ireland increased between 1978 and 1988 . |
| 28 | [ No action on the report was taken until 1977 , when the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education was set up : a central body like the proposed national development council but lacking the strong government support called for by the report . |
| 29 | This impression of the object of have being represented as completely submissive to the will of the person referred to by the subject explains moreover the use of the bare infinitive with this verb : this exercise of control by the causer over the causee can be seen as persisting throughout the realization of the infinitive event . |
| 30 | In I made him eat his potatoes , similarly , where the realizer of eat is " him " only , the person referred to by the direct object is represented as being involved in eating at the same time during which he is the object of the causation denoted by make : since make evokes the idea of " producing an effect " , it is impossible to conceive the making as being under way before the effect has started coming into existence . |