Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A PLAN to draw up registers of land which may be polluted has been abandoned by the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , writes Auslan Cramb . |
| 2 | The desire to diversify has been prompted by a need to boost dwindling profit margins in an increasingly competitive traditional banking sector . |
| 3 | The courtyard thus formed has been adopted by the Manx government who intent to develop it as a garden area . |
| 4 | The hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that each of the two cases to which he has referred was decided by the trial judge on the basis of medical evidence , including independent medical evidence . |
| 5 | The deterioration to be expected has been analysed by the author , and results for the 80/20 case are given here . |
| 6 | A Brigade statement said : ‘ The decision to disband has been taken by the leadership and will prevent any members reforming under any other name . ’ |
| 7 | Submissive gestures are used to try to avoid being attacked by a more dominant animal . |
| 8 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science how much money has to date been contributed by the private sector to city technology colleges . |
| 9 | She used to repeat the expression on attend pas mieux , through tight lips , in relation to any misdemeanour reported to have been committed by a Jew . |
| 10 | The first of these was the Greek tanker Filikon L , reported to have been attacked by an Iraqi aircraft . |
| 11 | A civilization that never invented the wheel was automatically precluded from inventing the mechanical clock , but in fact neither the sundial nor the water-clock appear to have been developed by the Maya for measuring the passage of time . |
| 12 | The principal aim of this study will be to assess the extent to which police conduct and decision making in a number of areas appear to have been influenced by the Police and Criminal Evidence Act ( 1984 ) . |
| 13 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 14 | As far as is known , very few people in Islay kept a diary at that time and in those which have survived the entries are short and appear to have been inspired by the prospect of emigration or a return to their native heath by one who had spent many years abroad . |
| 15 | The riots appear to have been precipitated by an apparently casual incident when a Meskhetian angrily tipped over a table of strawberries being sold by an Uzbek girl . |
| 16 | But in the meantime , in a week when Irish singles appear to have been released by the crateload , the ‘ Uncertain ’ EP is the real trophy . |
| 17 | SCIENTISTS have launched an investigation into the fate of partridges which appear to have been harmed by the increasing amount of land being set aside by farmers and allowed to lie fallow . |
| 18 | The army absorbed most of the Scottish gentry who hoped to make their living from the sword , but there were also many Scots in the Royal Navy and Royal Marines , and those who entered the senior service appear to have been attracted by the substantial advantages which the navy had over the army for a gentleman of limited means . |
| 19 | Both Lower and Upper Mills appear to have been worked by a single miller , both presumably owned by the Prouts . |
| 20 | They appear to have been initiated by the head of the Party Chancellery , Martin Bormann , probably under pressure from anti-Christian activists at Gau level , for whom the apparent strengthening of the Church 's hold over the population during the war was a notable provocation . |
| 21 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 22 | The fire was reported to have been caused by a wiring short circuit . |
| 23 | Slimly-built Gilbey resigned from Holbein in February last year when the firm was reported to have been hit by the recession with large debts . |
| 24 | It is a measure of the grim recalcitrance of the region 's problems that Schultz 's message was reported to have been saluted by a strike called in protest among the Palestinians of the occupied territories . |
| 25 | The final assault on Bijeljina was reported to have been led by a Serbian guerrilla leader known as Arkan , whose units fought in some of the most ferocious battles in Croatia . |
| 26 | A total of 49 people are reported to have been killed by the Maoist Sendero Luminoso in attacks on villages in the central Andes . |
| 27 | Mehmed II is reported to have been hurt by the fact that Hocazade appeared to prefer high rank to his company . |
| 28 | Sica met with police chiefs and magistrates to discuss the clan warfare among members of the local " ndragheta — the Calabrian version of the Mafia — which was reported to have been triggered by the police break-up of drug , kidnapping and money-laundering rackets . |
| 29 | The attacks coincided with an official visit by President Pierre Buyoya to France , and were widely reported to have been instigated by the exiled Palipehutu movement ( Parti pour la libération du peuple Hutu ) . |
| 30 | Gustavo Adolfo Stroessner , the son of the exiled former president Alfredo Stroessner , was reported to have been arrested by the Brazilian police on Aug. 9 in response to an extradition request by the Paraguayan government . |