Example sentences of "[was/were] dealt [prep] by the " in BNC.

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1 In fact , petitions — which are scarcely known before 1272 — quickly became so numerous that by 1280 most were being redirected to the appropriate departments of royal government ( the exchequer and the chancery above all ) and only the remainder were dealt with by the king .
2 Evacuation was thus a constant migration of population — on Titmuss 's estimate , some 4 million people were dealt with by the government scheme over the course of the war — and in later waves many of the problems of inadequate medical inspection , inappropriate billeting , lack of schooling and so on were overcome .
3 13 other travellers were dealt with by the court for a variety of motoring offences arising out of the Castlemorton event .
4 I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well .
5 Administratively Korea was dealt with by the Colonial Ministry until 1942 when the Home Ministry assumed responsibility .
6 On the eastern side of the county , indeed , where it lay along the Bedfordshire border , one acre in every two was dealt with by the Georgian planners .
7 On this occasion he was dealt with by the juvenile court for an offence of being a passenger in a stolen car or a car taken without authority and he received a conditional discharge .
8 take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment .
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