Example sentences of "on him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his role as the world 's Central Banker , a position bestowed on him by the dollar 's reserve currency status , he can not please all of the people all of the time . |
| 2 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 3 | It was a move forced on him by the weakness of the rest and seemed certain to end in failure when Ludwig started his chase with 10 miles left . |
| 4 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
| 5 | The ombudsman claims that the jurisdiction and duty to investigate conferred and imposed on him by the scheme enables and requires him to investigate and determine complaints in relation to valuations made by employees of a building society of properties to be charged to the building society to secure further advances to an existing borrower from that society . |
| 6 | He did n't much approve of animal experimentation in the first place , so I 'd guess that it was forced on him by the sponsor . ’ |
| 7 | He became mayor for the first time in October 1261 and was reappointed in October 1262 , years in which the king dominated London , having thrown off the restrictions imposed on him by the Provisions of Oxford in 1258 . |
| 8 | He has just lost his farm — in a sale forced on him by the Kenya Government ( ‘ Kenyatta 's Chief Bodyguard wanted it for himself ’ ) . |
| 9 | According to Washington , the president regrets the decision , and says it was forced on him by the intransigence of the Russians . |
| 10 | They were rather unpleasantly self-satisfied for a start — and this was not incompatible with the impression made on him by the man himself at their meeting . |
| 11 | The pace of Norman McGladdery , eligible to play having appealed a seven-game ban imposed on him by the Ulster Branch , Colin Allister and Lee Tumilty caused problems throughout whereas the skills of Jimmy Kirkwood and Daniel Clarke at the other end were stifled by a resolute defence . |
| 12 | He complained of increased media attacks on him by the Moldavian Communist Party under its new first secretary Grigory Yeremey [ for whose appointment see above ] , featuring allegations that his administration was failing to protect party property ; of " back-stage scheming " against him in Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet ; and of his inability to work with republican Prime Minister Mircha Druk . |
| 13 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 14 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 15 | There is no doubt that in the 19th century the courts did consider the adequacy of consideration in restraint of trade cases , but more recently in M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Hodson LJ said " … although the position of the employee has to be considered , the court will not inquire into the adequacy of the consideration or weigh the advantages accruing to the covenantor under the contract against the disadvantages imposed on him by the restraint " . |