Example sentences of "[prep] it by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 5. of , a firm having been found to be in breach of Investment Business Regulation 1.50 in that in Stockbridge between 1 June 1991 and 3 March 1992 the firm failed to pay its Investment Business Authorisation Fee for the year ending 31 December 1991 and having been in breach of Bye-law 76(a) ( iv ) as applied by Investment Business Regulation 6.09 in that the firm at Stockbridge between 19 December 1991 and 28 January 1992 failed to provide information required of it by the Investigation Committee on 19 December 1991 in exercise of its powers under Bye-law 80(a) concerning the payment of its Investment Business Authorisation Fee for the year ending 31 December 1991 was reprimanded and ordered to pay £l , 000 by way of costs . |
| 2 | In drawing up his list of inhabitants of Corfe Castle in 1794 , the compiler justified his efforts by claiming that it would not only help the overseers keep in touch with actual and potential needs , but would " enable the magistrates to form an opinion on the propriety of applications for parochial relief on the one hand , and of the refusal of it by the parish officers on the other " . |
| 3 | Inheriting the earth , or what 's left of it by the time the non-meek have realized the folly of their ways , is a process which takes much fortitude and patience . |
| 4 | That this is not the only dimension along which one can or must discriminate became fully apparent to juries when confronted with the ‘ video nasties ’ of the 1980s , where the verdicts surprised some observers by turning more often on the morality or immorality of the conduct portrayed and the moral stance taken towards it by the film-maker than on the affront caused to the viewer . |
| 5 | Yesterday , The Scotsman revealed that the proposal has prompted an extraordinary court action against it by the Lord Provost of Edinburgh , Norman Irons , and the Sheriff Principal of Lothian and Borders , Gordon Nicholson . |
| 6 | It is understood he initially thought of going there at the weekend but was advised against it by the police . |
| 7 | His Majesty being made acquainted with it by the Bishop of London , Order was given for calling the Printers into the High-Commission , where upon Evidence of the Fact , the whole Impression was called in , and the Printers deeply fined , as they justly merited . |
| 8 | We have since learnt from an unreliable source that Arlo is so named because Mr and Mrs Bez were trying to work their way through a baby 's name book and got bored with it by the end of the ‘ A ’ section . |
| 9 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 10 | Many of them never wanted to lend overseas in the first place , but were forced into it by the internationalization of American commerce ; as their local clientele expanded into foreign trade , they had no choice but to follow them or lose the business to the money-center banks . |
| 11 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 12 | An ingenious Yamaha employee suggested a hoist for the drum , so that the jug could simply be held under it by the sprayman , or woman ( women undertake almost any job in the factory ) , making life easier , ensuring less waste and almost certainly fewer days off work due to back injuries ! |
| 13 | The ideological dimensions of this model are evident from the racist implications drawn from it by the Oxford geologist W. J. Sollas in his influential book Ancient Hunters of 1911 . |
| 14 | The village of Tickton in East Yorkshire is situated on the Beverley to Bridlington road about two and a half miles north-east of Beverley and separated from it by the river Hull . |
| 15 | Set back from the road it faces the south wall of the magnificent St Magnus Cathedral , and is separated from it by the road , and by a peaceful park area and an avenue of trees . |
| 16 | The unwinding of such assistance ( repayment of loans given by the Bank to the market or resale to the market of bills bought from it by the Bank ) will drain market liquidity and will , of course , be known by the Bank in advance . |
| 17 | The capital 's importance in the cloth trade is seen in the part played in it by the Fellowship of the Merchant Adventurers of London . |
| 18 | But that causeway had had deep holes dug in it by the defenders these last days , and the intervening stretches strewn with caltrops , four-pronged iron spikes such as Bruce had used with such effect at Bannockburn , and which the many smiths of Berwick had been set to forging for the last weeks . |
| 19 | It is hard to divide up the Basque hinterland in any manageable way in order to describe it ; here , I shall stick to the three provinces recognized in it by the Basques themselves , of Labourd , Basse-Navarre and the Soule . |
| 20 | There was a roll of film in it by the way , did they tell you ? |
| 21 | I , mines got a in it by the way , beer belly |
| 22 | Does my hon. Friend the Minister agree that while Britain has the highest proportion of health costs funded by the public purse , the British public have shown their confidence in it by the fact that only 13 per cent . |
| 23 | A mind with a clear understanding of what it means by ‘ god ’ when making a call on that ‘ god ’ will have access to a physical response of immense scope , controlled only by the limitations put upon it by the processes of evolution . |
| 24 | The trustee may at any time give notice to a secured creditor that he proposes at the end of twenty-eight days to redeem the security at the value placed upon it by the creditor in his proof . |
| 25 | As far as the authority of the board is concerned , it must carry out its functions according to the powers conferred upon it by the company 's articles . |
| 26 | Ostensibly it was to prosper from a mono-poly of trade with Spanish America , which would be bestowed upon it by the government in return for taking over the entire £9 million worth of unsecured national debt . |
| 27 | As to ( a ) accident , the Chief Justice 's examples were A's fruit falling upon C's land , or A's tree falling upon it by decay or being blown upon it by the wind . |
| 28 | Should we look to it for a pool of inventive talent that actively embodied novelty in its products , and thereby provided pressure for technical change among its customers ; or rather , for provision of engineering skills that responded passively to the demands made upon it by the inventiveness of its clients consumer industries and civil engineers ? |
| 29 | I used the PCW version and found little at fault , except , that the limitations imposed upon it by the hardware made it slow to operate . |
| 30 | At first sight this provision might seem to be a contradiction in terms , but some light is cast upon it by the Declaration appended at the end of the Single European Act , which , whatever its legal status may be , states that the conference considered that the provisions of Article 130R(5) ( 2 ) did not affect the principles resulting from the judgment handed down by the European Court in the ERTA case . |