Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] by the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Independent inspections are carried out by the B.S.I. who send in experts unannounced to carry out checks . |
| 2 | There would have been an enormous panic when they realised that the Irish girl had been picked up by the Bonnards . |
| 3 | Dr James Swire , who had lost a daughter at Lockerbie and was the leading spokesman for the British families , told The Times that he still believed the atrocity had been carried out by the PFLP — GC , acting as mercenaries for the Iranians , although he was anxious to see the two Libyans brought to trial by any means short of force . |
| 4 | A reconnaissance stream sediment survey has been carried out by the MRP over much of the orefield ( MRP 5 ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most sustained research into speech recognition has been carried out by the IBM speech group which started work on the production of a large vocabulary continuous speech recognition system in 1972 . |
| 6 | The groundwork had been carried out by the Southampton Special Unit and Vigilant and Venturous had been deployed to cover the approaches to the Solent and Poole Harbour . |
| 7 | In Rome the work has been carried out by the Istituto Centrale del Restauro . |
| 8 | ‘ If this issue had been built up by the NFU and sufficient Tory MPs had rebelled we could have reversed the cuts but there seemed to be little fight from Edinburgh . |
| 9 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |
| 10 | The company says the trainer market 's core consumers are turned off by the Clarks name . |
| 11 | Television coverage had been scooped up by the BBC , who had realised the dramatic possibilities of the occasion . |
| 12 | Proposals for bilateral agreements , put forward by both these countries , have been turned down by the UK Department of the Environment on the grounds that Britain , along with other European Community countries , is aiming to achieve self-sufficiency in waste disposal . |
| 13 | A request from Shetland farmers to ban all imports of dairy cattle to save their stocks from BSE infection has been turned down by the Shetland Island Council . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been stitched up by the Richardson gang ’ |
| 15 | The initial measures of enforcement had been agreed on by the WEU and NATO in July [ see also pp. 39012-13 ] . |
| 16 | On March 1 King Bhumibol Adulyadej formally approved a new interim Constitution which had been drawn up by the NPKC . |
| 17 | The construction of an appropriate regulatory framework is extremely complex and this has been borne out by the US experience . |
| 18 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 19 | GLEB had been set up by the GLC in 1983 to provide venture capital to start up enterprises and provide jobs in the London area . |
| 20 | A SPECIAL hit-squad has been set up by the IRA to target top loyalists , according to the RUC . |
| 21 | These have now been laid down by the UKCC in its Code of Professional Conduct for the Nurse , Midwife and Health Visitor . |
| 22 | While his gimlet eye has been fixed upon the Institute 's accounts , it has not been free to rove over his own financial affairs and he has , accordingly , been marked up by the Woolwich Building Society with distressing ease . |
| 23 | This last index has been a boon to many UK fund managers concerned over relative performance , since it has been weighed down by the Tokyo market , which has been in sustained fall for a period of nearly three years . |
| 24 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 25 | A survey was to be carried out by the North Sea Conference to gain a clear picture of where dumping occurred , and it would be the responsibility of signatory countries to prosecute those of their own ships which transgressed the convention . |
| 26 | A survey to gain a clear picture of where the dumping occurs is to be carried out by the North Sea Conference . |
| 27 | Then , in the late afternoon , Eric would be picked up by the US postal jeep , which carried important military mail from Milan to Rome by way of Verona , Bologna and Florence , and arrive in Rome at first light the following morning . |
| 28 | Recalling that swinging ‘ 67 start , the dry Scouser said : ‘ I expected to be chucked out by the BBC any moment then . ’ |
| 29 | A surge of people had to be thrust back by the Sellswords . |
| 30 | Decree 1/90 , issued in July 1990 , formally stated that the SLORC would continue as the de facto government until a new constitution ( to be drawn up by the SLORC ) was submitted to a referendum . |