Example sentences of "to [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a totalizing view of society , and implies a certain anti-pluralism : freedom of belief and action within certain parameters , which are to be decided either by those who appear righteous in the sight of God or by those who , at least , conform in their lawmaking to the advice given to them by the righteous . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both players responded alertly to the capricious nature of the Wilfred Josephs Sonata No3 , a work dedicated to them by the composer , displaying no lack of brilliance to meet its formidable technical demands . |
| 4 | Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , and Lord Lane , Lord Chief Justice , two of the four senior judges with a veto , criticised the role given to them by the bill . |
| 5 | Dependent on relief helicoptered to them by the American armed forces , the mountain refugees are still losing their young and their old to malnutrition , cold and disease . |
| 6 | Where the defence arises our courts will act upon the so-called ‘ M'Naghten ’ rules , propounded by the judges in response to questions addressed to them by the House of Lords . |
| 7 | In this chapter we shall be looking at how this particular group of people might view and understand what is being offered to them by the church at the time of a major bereavement . |
| 8 | Despite recognising the power of the advertising world , Jo does feel that there is some possibility for girls to pick and choose between what is offered to them by the media , and how they want to look themselves . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Smiths began to relish the success given to them by the lyrically obscure ‘ This Charming Man ’ . |
| 11 | These pleats give the lava a ropy appearance , and the flows are called by a name given to them by the Polynesian islanders — pahoehoe flows . |
| 12 | Although , in principle , the communities of interest are allowed to raise in ‘ contributions ’ only the amounts agreed by the delegates from their member ‘ organizations or associated labour ’ , in practice , such organizations have little option but to agree with proposals presented to them by the community managers . |
| 13 | With its incredible wealth — about £6 million estimated annual income has been suggested — and ownership of about nine thousand manors came inevitable corruption as the Templars took advantage of the privileges granted to them by the Pope . |
| 14 | Until the 1930s , for example , it was a routine practice of the London police to record thefts reported to them by the public as ‘ lost property ’ . |
| 15 | Volunteers kept diaries , answered regular questionnaires , and generally responded to points put to them by the directors of the study , Tom Harrisson and Charles Madge . |
| 16 | Their convictions are sometimes the result of their intimate knowledge of the degenerating influences of Native amusements , but often have their source in a narrow conception of recreation imported to them by the missionaries . ' |
| 17 | St Andrews caddies are reputedly such notorious drinkers that the Rules and Advice for Caddies , a five-page document issued to them by the Links Trust , begins with a stark injunction : ‘ Caddies must be sober … |
| 18 | Noble argues that the technical performance of the two systems in their development phase was similar but that the NC system was adopted in preference to the record-playback system because managements preferred the tighter control given to them by the NC system ( Noble 1977 ) . |
| 19 | Doubts have already been raised about the cost of the proposals , about possible legal difficulties and about shareholders ' willingness to play the role assigned to them by the APB . |
| 20 | They said that they were members of the MRF and that the Thompson had been issued to them by the RUC 's own Special Branch at Castlereagh , Belfast . |
| 21 | They now carry deeper theological meanings , which were probably given to them by the Church in the period of the oral tradition . |
| 22 | The Protestant churches are keen to take maximum advantage of the free air-time granted to them by the government television network , especially since the NCCSL and the Roman Catholic Church are the only two Christian groups in Sri Lanka which have access to national radio and TV . |
| 23 | But , putting to use the superior education unwittingly handed to them by the state or paid for by their parents , they soon displaced the handfuls of old faithfuls . |
| 24 | 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 ) . |
| 25 | Decisions are issued by either the Commission or the Council of Ministers : they derive directly from the authority given to them by the Treaty of Rome or from previously issued directives or regulations , and they too are binding upon the governments to which they are addressed . |
| 26 | Throughout this time , prison staff and managers passed the various ‘ crisis ’ totals , got on with the task , absorbed everyone sent to them by the courts and , somehow , despite a crumbling prison estate , avoided total chaos . |
| 27 | Lemert suggested that this cuts off access to conventional settings , activities and identities and in time leads to the ‘ deviants ’ acquiring a different conception of themselves : they live up to the deviant identity given to them by the labellers and indulge in more ( ‘ secondary ’ ) deviance . |
| 28 | An efficiently organised reception office should always have an up-to-date set of reference books in order to be able to answer the innumerable and varied questions that could be put to them by the guests . |
| 29 | Even the popular teenager who rebels against parental values and goals is likely to return to them by the age of thirty or so . |
| 30 | The ultra vires doctrine was used by the courts to keep corporate bodies within the narrowly defined powers granted to them by the statute or charter of incorporation conferring corporate identity upon them . |