Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] by [det] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SWALEDALE has been called by many the most beautiful of all the dales and though I would argue with that definition , it is certainly one of the finest . |
| 2 | A great deal of evidence has been given by all the associations concerned , and the Select Committee report was published in January 1989 . |
| 3 | A ceasefire agreement for Bosnia has been signed by all the sides at talks in London . |
| 4 | Our success in attracting more investment from the United States than has been attracted by all the countries of western Europe put together is proof that we have created a more attractive climate for investment than anywhere else in Europe . |
| 5 | What has been overshadowed by all the hype about CFCs is that carbon tetrachloride ( ‘ tetra ’ ) and 1,1,1-trichloroethane ( ‘ 1,1,1 ’ ) were also included in the London revision of the protocol . |
| 6 | ‘ That assurance has been reiterated by both the chairman ( Sir Bert Millichip ) and chief executive ( Graham Kelly ) . ’ |
| 7 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 8 | The Christians in Corinth were confused ; should they withdraw from such a society ; one party in the church seems to have been saying that they must , to avoid being defiled by all the ‘ isms ’ ( paganism , hedonism , animism , polytheism , … ) around them ; the other party was saying that contact with the non-Christian society around them was all right . |
| 9 | Certainly , his intellectual position would not have been jeopardised by such an extension of his arguments . |
| 10 | In the early 1960s an American writer dubbed Karajan the conductor of ‘ mathematicians [ Bach would probably have been flattered by such an appellation ] and engineers ’ . |
| 11 | The tries , three in the first half , when the USA had the wind advantage , were well taken , leaving the USA to ponder how a game where they had parity in the scrums and very much the upper hand out of touch , winning the lines-out 16–5 , could have been lost by such a comprehensive margin . |
| 12 | This resulted in the construction of churches that could not possibly have been supported by such a small population — there were fifteen in the town centre alone — and these were maintained by the bull priests for secret ritual and ceremonial services on 13 November , the ‘ festal day ’ . |
| 13 | Caringolat and the other tutors at Por Tanssie would surely have been stupefied by such a lewd spectacle . |
| 14 | ( 2 ) Any officer , servant or agent of the Bank may , on producing if required evidence of his authority , enter any premises occupied by any person on whom a notice could be served under section 39 above for the purpose of obtaining there such information or documents as are specified in the authority , being information or documents that could have been required by such a notice ; but the Bank shall not authorise any person to act under this subsection unless it has reasonable cause to believe that if such a notice were served it would not be complied with or that any documents to which it would relate would be removed , tampered with or destroyed . |
| 15 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 16 | I 'm delighted it it 's a Conservative erm er resol er erm amendment that I think is agreed by all the council . |
| 17 | Environmentalists said that Mr MacGregor had been ill-advised , and pointed out that the Department 's environmental assessment policies had been criticized by both the EC [ which has threatened the UK with legal action over the matter — see ED no. 52 ] and the government 's Standing Committee on Trunk Road Assessment . |
| 18 | Since Ralph de Faye was a member of the house of the Viscounts of Cha tellerault this means that with the one exception of the Viscount of Thouars — who had earlier suffered badly as the result of a quarrel with Eleanor — she had been joined by all the leading barons of Poitou and the Angoumois . |
| 19 | Thereupon one of the companions of our bishop took a stone which had been blessed by all the people of God and hurled it from his sling after the manner of David . |
| 20 | Fairlie , who is widely credited with inventing the phrase ‘ the Establishment ’ during the Burgess and Maclean revelations in September 1955 , alleged that the two diplomats had been protected by such an Establishment . |
| 21 | The censor lost his job when the pious preface brought laughter down on the Church that had been duped by such an obvious pretence . |
| 22 | The police are now investigating and already trading standards officers have been contacted by half a dozen tenants and landlords who believe they 've lost out |
| 23 | has attached to it one or more Design Changes ( DCs ) which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 24 | has associated with it one or more DCs which refer to the modules to be changed and which have been agreed by all the other module managers likely to be affected . |
| 25 | Cinema , further , more than any other cultural product , has been structured around sexuality , or rather around the objectification of male desire in screen images of women — that is , film narratives themselves have been structured by such a patriarchal economy of desire . |