Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 2 | But without that pride the Spaniard would not be Spanish , as Harvey writes : ‘ It is profoundly to be hoped that he will never allow these sharp angles to be smoothed off by the modern cult of ‘ all things to all men' ’ , and a false catholicity of taste which is no taste at all . |
| 3 | In all these cases catalogues can be amended simply by a general notice explaining that the groups of materials have been moved to remote storage . |
| 4 | The difference between the two countries is that the formal wording of the United States Constitution can be amended only by an extraordinary process , i.e. , one that goes beyond the provisions employed for amending the ordinary law . |
| 5 | They may be aroused sexually by the naked bodies they wash and care for . |
| 6 | Pasture improvement can be undertaken either by the individual crofter , after obtaining the ‘ apportionment , , of his share of the common grazing , or on a township basis . |
| 7 | But bear in mind that interest rate hedging should not be undertaken lightly by the inexperienced , and then only to hedge an underlying cash position and not for speculation |
| 8 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 9 | This can be explained largely by the industrial and occupational distribution of the jobs which they have and by the overlap between part-time working and temporary working . |
| 10 | In the case of France , also at the foot of the table , the low level of union membership may be explained partly by the deep-rooted ideological divisions within the fragmented trade union movement but more importantly , according to Clegg , because of the late development and lack of depth of collective bargaining whose regulatory effect has been relatively limited . |
| 11 | Mr. Gilpin said ‘ picturesque ideas are all cloathed in bodily forms and may often be explained better by a few strokes of the pencil than by a volume of the most laboured description . ’ |
| 12 | The notice can be given either by the Central Authority or , to save time , directly by the competent authority . |
| 13 | Fibre is a specialized form of complex carbohydrate , which can not be broken down by the normal human digestive system . |
| 14 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |
| 15 | Fibre is the indigestible component of our diet , almost always derived from vegetable produce , and it is those components of the diet that can not be broken down by the digestive system which in turn pass into the large bowel and contribute to the bulk of faecal waste matter . |
| 16 | The building of the Berlin Wall seemed to show that Germany 's division could not be broken down by the forceful anti-communist line which he favoured . |
| 17 | He immediately took to his heels with is case of cigarettes and led me a merry dance away from the docks , through a council estate , finally finishing up on the perimeter track of Ipswich Airport where I was rescued in the nick of time by a squad car full of policemen just as I was about to be filled in by the burly seaman . |
| 18 | The most important deserted villages and other abandoned medieval settlements will probably be listed already by the Medieval Village Research Group and there may well be surveys and air photographs available . |
| 19 | The appeal court decided that the case should be heard tomorrow by a single judge . |
| 20 | An entity MALE and an entity FEMALE may be joined together by the optional relationship married to . |
| 21 | The food will then be heated up by the elderly and disabled clients themselves . |
| 22 | If at the time of the first Red Flag Act anyone had prophesied that within 100 years horseless carriages would be careering around by the million , they would have been thought dangerously deluded ; no one would have believed that society would survive such an onslaught . |
| 23 | arguments , all of which can be developed only by a long mental soak in the subject . |
| 24 | The practical accuracy of this result , which is central to the determination of the fine structure , constant , is believed to be limited only by the residual dissipative current due to hopping through localised states . |
| 25 | The final design and location of the junction between the Outer City Bypass and the trunk road section of the Musselburgh Bypass are matters to be considered jointly by the Regional Council and the Scottish Development Department when finalising proposals for these schemes . |
| 26 | So though these remarks are addressed to beginners , I believe that some of the formal ideas could well be considered anew by the great number of talented young composers who are either clambering up the rungs of the ladder of fame or jostling for a foothold . |
| 27 | It could stop the erosion of rights catalogued throughout this book , and for this reason such a document needs to be considered seriously by the socialist opposition in Britain , and not written off as mere attempts at electoral reform when instead it should be developing a radical heart along democratic socialist lines . |
| 28 | This assumption can be made explicit by making literal use of an " existence predicate " , and sometimes any residual doubts about what is assumed on a particular occasion can be resolved only by a repeated and emphatic use of such predicates ; but , as is clear from what has been said so far , the use of such predicates is not analogous to acts of property ascription , especially if " properties " are understood in the sense of " accidental properties " . |
| 29 | ‘ I would prefer the portfolio of the shadow Scottish secretary to be voted on by the Scottish group and the Scottish party . ’ |
| 30 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |