Example sentences of "put to [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The committee declined to accept the view put to them by the Joint Permanent Secretary to the Treasury that tribunals ought to be regarded as part of the machinery of public administration for which the Government should retain a close and continuing responsibility . |
| 4 | In order to consider the proposal put to them by the management , the prospective providers of equity finance , and/or the providers of debt , and indeed the management in a management buy-in , will wish to see as much information as possible about the target . |
| 5 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |
| 6 | By section 434(5) an answer given by a person to a question put to him by the inspectors may be used in evidence against him . |
| 7 | Reagan gave replies which were videotaped to 159 questions put to him by the lawyers of his former National Security Adviser , Rear Admiral John Poindexter , whose trial was due to open in Washington DC on March 5 . |
| 8 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 9 | The point to make here is that the logic of adversary adjudication is that the decision of the court should be based on the case put to it by the parties in dispute and not on material or information supplied by third parties ; and rules of evidence are designed to achieve this result . |
| 10 | First , while parliament has to vote the annual Estimates , the party system in the House of Commons is such that it is virtually unknown for Parliament to amend the Estimates put to it by the government . |
| 11 | We welcome the general thrust of the report of the Edwards panel and the recommendations for the future of the national parks put to us by the Countryside Commission and the Countryside Council for Wales . |