Example sentences of "them by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It repeals a duty conferred on them by the existing regime to monitor the wholesomeness of water in their areas . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Even so , the refugees themselves are likely to resist any settlement unless it is forced upon them by the Syrian government itself . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Envy of the children — or over-concentration upon them by the other partner -will show itself in a dozen ways in attitudes and actions . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The part of the Wallowa Valley desired by the Nez Perce in 1873 , and the completely contradictory area allocated them by the Indian Bureau . |
| 20 | Sadly , as I shall explain , the facts do not bear out the interpretation given to them by the Foreign Secretary . |
| 21 | The Macedonian royal house was deeply involved with Persia : Gygaia , the sister of Alexander I , was given in marriage to a Persian called Boubares , and they lived off the revenues of a Phrygian city given them by the Persian king ( Hdt. viii . |
| 22 | Similarly , just as when expectations of inflation were zero actual inflation of 5 per cent might sufficiently fool workers to generate an unemployment rate of 3 per cent , now , if expectations of inflation are 5 per cent , actual inflation would need to be 10 per cent to fool them by the same amount as before and hence generate the same unemployment rate of 3 per cent . |
| 23 | Louis XIV and his admirals had , meanwhile , after the Battle of La Hogue , licensed numerous ‘ corsairs ’ to make a nuisance of themselves in the Channel and North Sea , some of whom , actually held naval rank and had guns — up to 50 or 60 in the larger ships — lent them by the French navy . |
| 24 | And the final tribute was paid them by the Ferrarese organist Luzzasco Luzzaschi ( 1545 ? -1607 ) , a pupil of Rore , in his Madrigali … per cantare et sonare a uno , e doi , e tre soprani ( Rome , 1601 ) in which the lower parts of the madrigal were played on a harpsichord . |
| 25 | For rather than being the locus of action , choice , etc. , the individual is to be seen as a ‘ conjuncture ’ of social practices ; each person 's intentional properties can be ‘ explained away ’ as the result of constraints imposed upon them by the structured whole . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , you seem to have them by the wrong end , but , seeing as no amount of protestations will make you change your mind , I sha n't bother . |
| 27 | How- ever , the first instalment of the kingdom would soon be sent them by the ascended King himself . |
| 28 | The family who had owned and operated the mill continued to live in the imposing nearby mill house , but were unable to fund a restoration of the redundant mill , so that when a Repairs Notice was served on them by the local authority , they were obliged to sell the building . |
| 29 | Dazedly he saw them by the sagging chaise-longue . |
| 30 | In the first place , becoming a housewife impresses them by the very openness of the role [ ? ] and by the freedom they now have from constraining supervision … |