Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus output might be altered by a technological breakthrough , or by changes in the structure of taxation which affected the choice between work and leisure , or by changes in other real variables , but should not be affected by a change in nominal spending : such changes should affect the price at which the available output is sold and not the quantity of output itself . |
| 2 | If there is a steady downward drift in the average temperature in the area , a drift that persists over centuries , successive generations of animals will be propelled by a steady selection ‘ pressure ’ in the direction , say , of growing longer coats of hair . |
| 3 | Each of these can be recognized by a common pattern of internal structure , all the individual species within a type being but variations on the same basic pattern . |
| 4 | A peer review of the outcomes of the enquiry will be undertaken by a working conference of informed critics whose observations will be incorporated into the final presentation of results early in 1990 |
| 5 | The struggle to end capitalist wage labour can not be helped by women opting out and can only be undertaken by a working class that is less divided by male domination than the present one . |
| 6 | With limited exceptions , it proposed that all functions of local government be undertaken by a single authority in each area . |
| 7 | These arrangements for review of the procedures were strongly condemned by the Opposition which argued that the monitoring function should be undertaken by a Select Committee of the House of Commons which would ‘ oversee the work of any person responsible for , or making use of , the interception of communications ’ . |
| 8 | It is clear that the role need not always be undertaken by a social worker , but it also seems clear that in situations of family complexity , or personal loss of morale , social workers have particular skills to offer . |
| 9 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 10 | As the eager spectators applauded , and their cheers echoed around the field at Louis Paulhan 's success , how could anyone imagine that in just nine years time the Atlantic Ocean would be conquered by a young man in the crowd . |
| 11 | The problem is that impressions and attitudes are very vague things , and can not be explained by a traditional approach to communication , which assumes that the hearer 's task in utterance interpretation is to identify a proposition or set of propositions specifically intended by the speaker together with the speaker 's attitude towards those propositions . |
| 12 | Secondly , although the integral values of the Hall resistivity at the plateaux can be explained by a simple theory that glosses over many of the complications of real inversion layers , nobody expects such outstandingly good agreement , better than 1 part per million , with a theory so coarse . |
| 13 | Such questions as these receive quite disparate answers , ranging from claims that all these legal practices can be explained by a new principle , such as the protection of reliance , through to denials that anything significant has happened . |
| 14 | The repeated blindnesses of critics can only be explained by a deep dissatisfaction in them with the very data of ‘ fairy-story ’ , an inhibition against accepting the conventions of romance . |
| 15 | The high prices for such things could only be explained by a separate blurb which claimed meat from ‘ English rare breeds ’ and a lot of stuff about natural rearing and hand finishing ( a bonus , I pointed out to my guest , a Texan with special interests in T.S . |
| 16 | These observations can be explained by a modest increase of temperature with depth , the material becoming very plastic , perhaps partially molten , beyond about 800 km . |
| 17 | This effect can not merely be explained by a conceivable depletion of TBP , because transcription of the classical pol III genes requires only a very low amount of TBP ( 6 ; and our own unpublished results ) , the presence of which could be verified by western-blot analysis of hTFIIIB and hTFIIIC containing fractions used for the assay ( our unpublished results ) . |
| 18 | He asks if the redshift of distant galaxies could not be explained by a universal contraction towards a point which is , as yet , beyond our observational limits . |
| 19 | The Royal College of Physicians has gone on record as stating that ‘ there are reasonable grounds for the statement that , in genetically susceptible persons , large bowel cancer could be favoured by a fibre-depleted diet ’ . |
| 20 | The dog had a metallic collar which could be traced by a hand-held detector , operated by the men on the surface . |
| 21 | For example , questions of relevance only to married women can be prefaced by a general question about marital status followed by an instruction for those who have answered in a particular way to move to the relevant subset . |
| 22 | He became mayor again after the war only to be dismissed by a British officer of the occupying forces , who found him as awkward to deal with as the Nazis had . |
| 23 | The alternative is to say that assimilation causes a phoneme to be realised by a different allophone ; this would mean that , in the case of and , the phoneme of ‘ good ’ has velar and bilabial allophones . |
| 24 | Carried to their logical conclusion his theories meant that ( if he were right ) the attaque à outrance could be broken by a well-organised defence long before it reached the enemy . |
| 25 | There had been conflicting opinions by individual judges on whether injuries must be sustained by a living person before next-of-kin could sue . |
| 26 | The new system is to be sustained by a single super-power which , even if officially bankrupt , can still call on the financial resources of its wealthy clients and allies to support its global security activities . |
| 27 | Water from deep wells may be sufficiently pure for employment in these circumstances , but before use the water should be examined by a qualified person to make certain that it is uncontaminated . |
| 28 | A yawning gap exists in the supposed overlap of services between the home help and the nurse , which needs to be filled by a small army of ‘ hands-on ’ carers . |
| 29 | THAT HORRIBLE gap at the weekend when the world 's financial markets close and the investor suffers withdrawal symptoms , is to be filled by a gilt-edged scheme from stockbrokers Wise Speke . |
| 30 | Rebecca Jenkins , Diocese press officer for Durham , said : ‘ From now on whenever a parish loses its vicar or rector the vacancy will be filled by a temporary minister . ’ |