Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your specific tasks within that given work are assigned to you by a person called your manager ( or boss or supervisor ) , who ought to be held accountable for the work you do . |
| 2 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 3 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 4 | He claimed he had not signed the document properly because , it having been given to him by a ‘ gentleman ’ , he was too nervous to do so . |
| 5 | It was here that items of the Emperor 's clothing and the superb diamond necklace which had been given to him by the Princess Borghese [ his sister , Pauline ] as well as the Landau which had escaped the Moscow disaster in 1813 ( sic ) were taken . ’ |
| 6 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 7 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 8 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 9 | Even so , she had to pretend to like it , particularly because it had been given to her by her father . |
| 10 | " It 's just a trick , really , it 's easy , " said Clara , and she took back the egg , and found that she could not put it together again either , so they decided to abandon it , and left it in little pieces in a glass dish on the mantelpiece with some dry and coloured gourds , and then they went downstairs and out into the park , and walked towards the bus stop , and Clara explained , lest the gourds and the egg should be thought to reflect in any way on herself , that they had been given to her by a friend the week before , to celebrate her twenty-second birthday . |
| 11 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 12 | If we decide to extend the rents-to-mortgages scheme and to make it nationwide , we shall take steps to ensure that no recalcitrant local authority can deny people rights that have been given to them by the House . |
| 13 | As a way of thanks , we handed Thomas a wee bit of Scotland that had been given to us by Frank Brown , a teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School . |
| 14 | Often members of my slimming classes have been referred to me by their doctors , anxious for their patients to reduce their weight and so help reduce their blood pressure . |
| 15 | I am asking the Court further , in the event that it considers itself so empowered , to treat the case as having been referred to it by me under section 17(1) ( a ) . ’ |
| 16 | the merits of such proposals as are referred to them by the Select Committee ; |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 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 | It is not a good idea simply to rely on advertisements in the local paper but far better to go to someone who has been recommended to you by a friend who has been successfully treated . |
| 20 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 21 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 22 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 23 | " See you , " said Alice , and turned away from the girl and went in , feeling that the 556 — at least — young couples with their spotty , frustrated infants had been presented to her by Fate , as her responsibility . |
| 24 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 25 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 26 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 27 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 28 | Her passion for Jane Austen , of course , had been revealed to me by her own writing . |
| 29 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 30 | Their powers are granted to them by the state and the courts ensure through the ultra vires or jurisdictional principle that they do not act outside their powers . |