Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time it was asked about them by The Times , the best that it could do was to put up a research assistant to the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) to answer . |
| 2 | If a child is aged under 2 then any provision which is made for him/her by the LEA is stated to be special educational provision ; in the case of a child aged 2 or over it is ‘ educational provision which is additional to , or otherwise different from , the educational provision made generally for children of that age in schools maintained by the LEA ’ . |
| 3 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 4 | They have been particularly successful within the Pacific-rim economies , and perhaps as much as one-fifth of world trade went through them by the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 6 | Why not rescue them from the hell hole created for them by the Government ? |
| 7 | So Rachel at six years and Margaret at five years were left in England after our second furlough , and generous help was provided for them by the organiser of a preparatory school . |
| 8 | Managerial autonomy has been fostered by the growth of public sector commercialism based on the principle of allowing managements to operate freely within the framework of targets set for them by the state , and on the promotion of an ‘ entrepreneurial ’ approach to the management of the railways . |
| 9 | A teacher has only to say : " Now which of you girls did — " and my spots merge for a time into the scarlet background provided for them by the rest of my face . |
| 10 | you go or the person who has been hypnotized so that in the most extreme cases , as we know , the hypnotized person lapses into a kind of trance , whether a kind of sleeping automaton with no ego and their decisions are now being made for them by the hypnotist who tells them what do to and they , they act as a kind of a , a puppet as if their ego ha has been turned off al al al altogether and clearly there 's a parallel here with what Freud 's going on in the group . |
| 11 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
| 12 | Make a table , ranking the prey species ( a ) in their order of abundance and ( b ) in order of the preference shown for them by the dog-whelks . |
| 13 | Yeah , but the thing is right they 're sevens and they 're gon na be too small for them by the time holiday gets round say September |
| 14 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 15 | I have a strictly limited choice of action , and the extent of the choice is determined for me by the constraints of my physical environment . |
| 16 | Now for a motor car I think you can say that the practical desirabilities of a car , and the acceleration and performance and looks are very important , one could also say that the fact that many people have their cars bought for me by the firm they work for means that they will therefore buy a larger car than they would if it was their own money that they were spending , so the market for cars is perhaps not one which is determined by energy efficiency or even optimum efficiency in terms of people 's and prestige is coming into it as much as these other factors and it is determined by who pays the money . |
| 17 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 18 | " The common duty of care does not impose upon an occupier any obligation willingly accepted as his by the visitor . " |
| 19 | The question was wrung out of me by the absurdity of it . |
| 20 | I could do what was expected of me by the crowd , or I could do what he trusted me to do . |
| 21 | And she got hold of me by the neck like th I told you to go to school did n't I . |
| 22 | and Macpherson of Cluny J. ) given on 18 January 1991 refusing them the relief claimed in their applications for judicial review of decisions made in relation to each of them by the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 23 | Strikes grew more frequent and violent , the harsh suppression of them by the government increasing hostility towards the republican regime . |
| 24 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 25 | Sharon gets to wear nice clothes , live in two swankyhouses ( one of them by the beach ) , chainsmoke , and be enigmatic about whether or not she 's a killer bimbo . |
| 26 | Addition of records and subsequent sequential processing of them by the provision of overflow areas ; |
| 27 | Oh well you 've quite enjoyed that and you 've had a few of them by the smell of you . |
| 28 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 29 | Examples of the last of these are , consumption of the goods by the seller or a resale of them by the seller when he has no right to re-sell . |
| 30 | The Government was severely embarrassed by a similar action brought in 1988 by Harriet Harman , now a front-bench Labour MP , and Patricia Hewitt , formerly press secretary to Neil Kinnock , over covert surveillance of them by the security service , MI5 . |