Example sentences of "them by [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less consciously , their desire was for a baby to be given to them by a symbolic mother ( the female doctor ) . |
| 2 | I refer in that context to the observations of Lord President Cooper in MacCormick v. The Lord Advocate in 1953 , when Lord Cooper , generally regarded as one of the foremost Scottish jurists of this century , said : ’ The principle of the unlimited sovereignty of Parliament is a distinctively English principle which has no counterpart in Scottish constitutional law Considering that the Union legislation extinguished the Parliaments of Scotland and England and replaced them by a new Parliament , I have difficulty in seeing why it should have been supposed that the new Parliament of Great Britain must inherit all the peculiar characteristics of the English Parliament but none of the Scottish Parliament , as if all that happened in 1707 was that Scottish representatives were admitted to the Parliament of England . |
| 3 | They were given tea and biscuits , invited to watch a favourite soap opera on the television , then made to listen to current hits from the charts played for them by a young man called Danny on his ghetto-blaster . |
| 4 | Staunch fans are always prepared to reanalyse their favourites in whatever blinding new light is thrown upon them by a probing music journalist . |
| 5 | The bodyguard drove , cut off from them by a sliding glass panel . |
| 6 | Kinnock fails to meet them by a huge margin . |
| 7 | She took them by a short cut to the Weinbaum Canal . |
| 8 | The common law provides quite an armoury of such principles , and new applications can be found for them by a bold judge . |
| 9 | Along with many a public body that felt pushed around by the Tories , the BBC must have gone to bed on April 8 with dreams of a quieter life on the night ; already swinging , as it were , in the hammock slung for them by a hung parliament . |
| 10 | Two loyal members of the Hunt , a hawk-faced lady and a meeker male partner , his coat a warm flame in the dark crevice where they sat , took their tickets , and money from Dada , and handed programmes , a Hunt button engraved on their backs and a tiny pencil attached to them by a red string . |
| 11 | He took them by a tortuous route to a pub called The Black Dog , which made a change from horses and pookas , until she recollected uneasily that a black dog was one of the devil 's traditional earthly disguises . |
| 12 | There are longueurs in Act I , but he skilfully deflects attention from them by a deft account of the ballet music and by letting us admire the much improved state of the Royal Opera chorus . |
| 13 | Far-reaching organisational changes were being forced upon many of them by the sheer growth of business , the sharpening of international rivalries and the accelerating pace of events . |
| 14 | The Comite de Madres y Familiares de Presos , Desaparecidos y Asesinados Politicos de El Salvador , Monsenor Oscar Arnulfo Romero was founded in 1977 by 12 mothers at a Christmas Eve supper offered to them by the late Archbishop . |
| 15 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 16 | No um Michael Fraser Associates have now started a lobbying operation which is run for them by the former Chief Executive of the Tory Party in Scotland whose name I 've forgotten but he lives down at Tiningham in East Lothian ah , now if I could get him in if Fred does n't object and again if Fred did n't object and the other guy did n't object it might be worth getting a member of Parliament in |
| 17 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 18 | The key to the achievement of a consensus lay in Hawke 's agreement to increase the financial autonomy of individual states by expanding their powers to raise taxes and by loosening controls on how they spent money transferred to them by the federal government . |
| 19 | However , the development of Australian unions has been markedly and uniquely influenced by the institutional support given to them by the federal arbitration system which has long played a fundamental role in wage-determination and the settlement of disputes ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 20 | Thereafter controversy over the issue subsided until June 1967 , when eviction proceedings were taken against eleven families who had refused accommodation offered to them by the rural district council because it was at some distance from the city . |
| 21 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 22 | The policemen on the cordon had lifted the barrier-pole to let the small convoy of police cars and vans past , ignoring with more than a little impatience the fusillade of questions thrown at them by the remaining newspeople . |
| 23 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 24 | Openness , urged on them by the hegemonic power , the United States , and the international organisations it dominated , and implicitly accepted by their own decisions to borrow heavily from foreign banks , multiplied their vulnerability . |
| 25 | She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I do n't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk |
| 26 | ENGLAND and Holland have declined to enter the sixth European Women 's Indoor Cup early next month because it has been sprung on them by the European federation . |
| 27 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 28 | Battalion after battalion decimated solely by the bombardment would be replaced in the line by others , until these too had all effectiveness as a fighting unit crushed out of them by the murderous shelling . |
| 29 | The truth is that without the assistance and support of local education authorities in helping schools manage the many drastic , rushed and ill conceived changes forced upon them by the Tory Government during the past 13 years , the education service would by now be in total disarray . |
| 30 | If those who work in the media wish to enjoy the freedom desired for them by the Royal Commission — the freedom to publish facts and opinions which are in the public interest — they may have to forgo some of the comparative freedom they enjoy to publish facts and opinions which are not . |