Example sentences of "[vb pp] to it by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 2 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 3 | . The damage done to industry by any of these three methods would probably be more than the good done to it by the direct help and , anyway I am not clear on the sort of direct help that might be intended . ’ |
| 4 | Among other initiatives taken at the summit was a decision by Saudi Arabia to forgive the debt owed to it by the poorest Islamic countries and to contribute US$10,000,000 to ease the ICO 's budget deficit of US$49,000,000 . |
| 5 | Didyma was a coastal port near to the important city of Miletos ( page 143 ) , connected to it by the sacred road . |
| 6 | The SIB has wide powers granted to it by the Secretary of State under the FSA , and has a broad authority in enforcing the Act ( and can override the decisions of the SROs ) . |
| 7 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 8 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 9 | As is well known , the word jade was an outcome of the medical qualities attributed to it by the Aztecs . |
| 10 | The Spaniards when they conquered Mexico were impressed by the effectiveness attributed to it by the indigenous population for treating pains in the sides and kidneys . |
| 11 | ‘ Between 30 October 1984 and 9 January 1985 each of the first four plaintiffs entered into a mortgage debenture charging its assets to secure repayment of moneys advanced to it by the first defendant , which was then known as Johnson Matthey Bankers Ltd . |
| 12 | He was driven to it by the logic of interest and events . |
| 13 | In addition , Aslib 's quarterly publication Index to Theses now provides abstracts of all theses notified to it by the universities . |
| 14 | On its commencement every proceeding is identified by a title , made up of the name of the court in which it is brought , the names of the parties and any Act ( other than the 1984 Act ) relied on to give the court jurisdiction , and by a distinguishing number allotted to it by the court office , written ( in an action ) as " Case No " or ( in a matter ) as " No of Matter " . |
| 15 | In September 1715 , immediately after the death of Louis XIV , the Parlement of Paris had restored to it by the Regent , the Duc d'Orléans , the right of remonstrance which allowed it to impede royal legislation . |
| 16 | TEC provisionally accepted the role allocated to it by the DES , but its acceptance was drowned in complaints from a number of quarters . |
| 17 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 18 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 19 | But so long as the tribunal decides the question assigned to it by the law , its relative opinion will bind , subject to appeal . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) The value of a symbolic good depends upon the value which is assigned to it by the relevant consumer community . |
| 21 | If they desired that the should stay and that the crown should retain the powers given to it by the constitution he should be informed . |
| 22 | All he knew was that ‘ in the end , this court quashed the subpoenas based upon ex parte in camera briefings given to it by the government ’ . |
| 23 | The first certain Greek words in the Bible are in the Book of Daniel ( 3.5 ) , which in its present form belongs to the third and second centuries B.C. It is furthermore probable that in Kohelet ( Ecclesiastes ) the Persian word pardes ( 2.5 ) is used in a meaning , orchard , given to it by the Greeks under the form . |
| 24 | The corporation may argue that a direction given to it by the National Rivers Authority to improve water is unreasonable . |
| 25 | Under the treaty , the USSR would be a " sovereign federative state formed as a result of voluntary unification of republics , and exercising the degree of political power given to it by the parties to the treaty " . |
| 26 | Convocation has a role defined in the Charter : it may ‘ discuss and pronounce an opinion on any matters whatsoever relating to the University including any matters referred to it by the Court or the Council ’ . |
| 27 | The Monopolies and Mergers Commission may , under the Fair Trading Act 1973 , have referred to it by the Director of Fair Trading or a Minister for investigation and report whether a monopoly , as defined , is or is not against the public interest . |
| 28 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 29 | A fairly narrow meaning has been ascribed to it by the Court of Appeal : |
| 30 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |