Example sentences of "[adv] [modal v] be [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manner in which the offensive trade is carried on may be controlled by byelaws made by the local authority under s.108(2) . |
| 2 | Provided that the government acted efficiently , the result would be that the aggregate demand curve would not shift down : the tendency for it to do so would be offset by government action . |
| 3 | Sometimes there is no coherent pattern in a time series and not much can be done by way of analysis other than elementary smoothing . |
| 4 | The information included in can be exploited by agents to tighten up their subjective prediction for . |
| 5 | Although some of these community norms that we have mentioned above may be recognized by outsiders as regional or social markers , many others are better described as internal : they mark social differences inside the community . |
| 6 | Several of the offences discussed above may be committed by omission . |
| 7 | The examples that have been quoted above could be multiplied by case-studies from all over England and from widely-separated periods of time . |
| 8 | Like all the other uses of see + to infinitive denoting inference , the sentence above can be paraphrased by means of a that- clause : ( 53 ) It might be soon , for I can see that Mrs Bonner is breaking visibly . |
| 9 | Using highly mobile soldiers to avoid battle , Bruce used the physical geography of Scotland to make conditions as difficult as he could for the English who , risking starvation and ambush , had to be very careful not to overstretch themselves and to keep open their lines of communication as best they could through the control of castles , in particular the vital one at Stirling , which dominated the lowest point at which the river Forth could be crossed by bridge . |
| 10 | The intra-hemispheric competition model predicts that since two tasks compete with each other both should be affected by interference ( Bowers , Heilman , Satz and Altman , 1978 ) . |
| 11 | Although other structures are needed in the fertilized egg , only DNA has heredity , and hence can be programmed by selection . |
| 12 | Parts of the wildscape and of the marginal fringe have been planted as forests which also can be used by tourists . |
| 13 | Any readers ' letters that panellists are unable to reply to here will be answered by GH Family Matters staff and our consultants . |
| 14 | The match at 2.45 pm will be preceded by lunch and a training session for the pupils , who have won nine and drawn two of their 12 games this season . |
| 15 | It is one of the most prestigious events in the equestrian calendar and once again will be sponsored by Toyota ( GB ) Ltd . |
| 16 | Indeed , it has been shown recently that the carboxy-terminal domain ( CTD ) of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II lacks Ser/Thr-Gln motifs and yet can be phosphorylated by DNA-PK in vitro ( 37 ) . |
| 17 | That argument certainly would be supported by evidence about migration to Britain , where brothers already settled are an important source of work contacts and economic support for new migrants ( Oakley , 1979 ; Anwar , 1985 ) . |
| 18 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 19 | There is a similar presumption of equality in relation to shareholders ' liabilities but it too can be altered by provisions in the memorandum and articles . |
| 20 | You will find that it too can be eliminated by re-phrasing . |
| 21 | The integration between road and bus certainly can be met by park and ride interchanges . |