Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [pers pn] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within three hours , a smug waiter brought a telephone to me by the pool . |
| 2 | dissenting ) [ 1991 ] 3 W.L.R. 790 allowing an appeal by the respondent , the Woolwich Equitable Building Society ( now the Woolwich Building Society ) , from the decision of Nolan J. [ 1989 ] 1 W.L.R. 137 that the right to repayment to them by the revenue of sums of £42,426,421 , £2,856,821 and £11,714,969 paid by Woolwich pursuant to a demand by the revenue under the Income Tax ( Building Societies ) Regulations 1986 , which were subsequently held to have been ultra vires , arose only at the moment of the decision as to the invalidity of the Regulations and not from the time that the payments were made . |
| 3 | Which is why we 've got to get the typescript to her by the end of January . |
| 4 | The king would often reward a family for service to him by the grant of a fair . |
| 5 | The position was that the Food Controller , purporting to be acting under Defence of the Realm Regulations , had imposed as a condition of the grant of a licence to purchase milk the payment to him by the purchaser of a charge of 2d. per gallon . |
| 6 | The Shipping Controller purporting to act under Defence of the Realm Regulations had imposed as a condition of licensing the sale of a ship to a foreign purchaser the payment to him by the seller of 15 per cent . |
| 7 | Charles de Gaulle had wanted such an agreement as a way to maintain French economic links to their former colonies , and it represented yet another important concession to him by the rest of the Six . |
| 8 | The British decision confirmed what had become increasingly apparent since 1958 , that the EEC was central not just to European integration , but to Western Europe as a whole , and that after 1957 the history of West European cooperation would centre upon the EEC , upon both its activities and the response to it by the other European states . |
| 9 | The alternative scheme likely to be used will involve the transfer of the existing shares in the target to the bidder ( or at least those not already owned by the bidder ) by a person nominated by the court to execute transfers on their behalf in return for the delivery to them by the bidder of the agreed consideration . |