Example sentences of "[prep] them 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | The kind of tasks carried out for them by the support workers is similarly hard to classify . |
| 4 | Why not rescue them from the hell hole created for them by the Government ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So , while the universities were recognized as having a national role , it was not the one envisaged for them by the Newbolt Committee . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Strikes grew more frequent and violent , the harsh suppression of them by the government increasing hostility towards the republican regime . |
| 15 | Both managers said they would assess managerial competence by a person 's ability to achieve the goals expected of them by the organisation . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Addition of records and subsequent sequential processing of them by the provision of overflow areas ; |
| 18 | Oh well you 've quite enjoyed that and you 've had a few of them by the smell of you . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She was running a whole chain of them by the time he went to university . |
| 23 | While going through the worst of the tantrum season , keep in mind that most children grow out of them by the time they 're three — this thought will help you to cope when you just feel like hiding ! |
| 24 | The girls got up to leave , and he grabbed one of them by the arm , rough in his treatment . |
| 25 | Is participation voluntary and welcomed by the clients , or is it demanded of them by the action system , the change agent or even by some extraneous system , as in some parent-teacher associations ? |
| 26 | The only clues to the identity of the telephone bidders was that German was spoken to one of them by the saleroom staff . |
| 27 | Justices who exercise this delicate jurisdiction are under a statutory duty to carry out the inquiry expected of them by the Children Act 1989 . |
| 28 | Yeah , well , no I 'm thinking that these , these applications have to be in both of them by the end of September and I do n't |
| 29 | By the word of the Lord were the heavens made and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth ( Ps. 33:6 ) . |
| 30 | ‘ Francesca 's got four brothers , see , two of them professional singers , two of them by the grace of God ordinary working stiffs in respectable offices . ’ |