Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only doubt about this was raised by the Court of Appeal in Faccenda Chicken Ltd v Fowler [ 1985 ] 1 All ER 724 where the court specifically left open the question whether additional protection should be afforded to an employer where the former employee is not seeking to earn his living by making use of the body of skill , knowledge and experience which he has acquired but is merely selling the knowledge to a third party ( see p79 above ) . |
| 2 | In the early 1980s the process went one stage further with the Bank buying commercial bills as a means of providing assistance in the money market ; the need for this was exacerbated by the policy of overfunding the PSBR to reduce broad money growth . |
| 3 | Time and time again the need for this was stressed by the audience focus groups : ‘ explain things to us ’ we were told . |
| 4 | But er all of that was negated by the fact with the amount of fire and smoke that was on the platform , nobody could get to the lifeboats . |
| 5 | The end of this was indicated by the appearance of a table of numbers ; this was a record of the average response time for both Yes and No responses for all 6 memory set sizes . |
| 6 | He said the only explanation of this was given by the boy to his five year old brother . |
| 7 | All of this was matched by the immensity of the great train concourse behind , 860 ft. long , which provided access through gates to the tracks . |
| 8 | ‘ The folly of this was illustrated by the controversial sale of the assets of the Mentmore estate in 1977 which exposed the need for a fund which could exercise similar powers to those of the secretary of state , with sufficient resources , and without excessive central government control ’ . |
| 9 | This was for £208 : 35. : 0d. ( a considerable sum of money for the times ) yet all of this was restituted by the end of 1633 suggesting , if nothing else , a degree of integrity . |
| 10 | Further evidence of this was provided by the escape from prison of Lt.-Cdr . |
| 11 | The members of the Legislative Commission of 1767 received from the areas which elected them both instructions and statements of grievances : digests of these were studied by the empress and had considerable influence on her later activities , notably on the reform of provincial administration in 1775 . |
| 12 | The majority of these were made by the London firm which , after various legal problems and takeovers , became Edison-Bell . |
| 13 | None of these were received by the nine children isolated by the events . |
| 14 | Over a quarter of these were handled by the Big Four , who dominated the top end of the market , being responsible for over 50% of searches for the $100 000 + positions . |
| 15 | ‘ Every one of these was rejected by the army , ’ he says . |
| 16 | Not all off these were powered by the Twyver . |
| 17 | The view from this was dominated by the Cathedral only six hundred yards away . |
| 18 | It was n't you who helped Mr get some trousers on that was done by the C I D when they arrived ? |
| 19 | I mean when Rutherford did his experiments years and years ago he produced his planetary model of the nucleus , of the atom where the nucleus plays the role of the sun and the electrons play the role of the planets , and people said well why do n't they just spiral in an erm Rutherford had actually no answer to this , but the answer to this was produced by the Danish physicist Nils Bore , who said ‘ Well they do n't spiral in because erm electrons can not just take up any orbit , they can take up certain specified orbits which he called stationary states , and there is a lowest one of these , and when the electron gets down there it can not go any further . |