Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dirt and moisture are brushed off by the Coral Clean-off-Zone as people walk over it . |
| 2 | While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase . |
| 3 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 4 | As a member of the National Trust for Scotland for nearly 58 years , and having from time to time been involved in its affairs , I want to add my personal support to Douglas Connell 's proposition ( Points of View , 15 March ) that the functions of the National Heritage Memorial Fund ( in so far as they relate to Scotland ) should in future be carried out by a new body established in Scotland . |
| 5 | We thus ask the following question : what would happen if a competitive industry were taken over by a single firm which then operated as a multi-plant monopolist ? |
| 6 | Responsible for heavy cleaning work , the movement of stores and for odd maintenance jobs ( e.g. the replacement of light bulbs etc. ) , major maintenance being carried out by the Polytechnic 's Building Division . |
| 7 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 8 | Most of the forms of publicity through print discussed in the first section of this chapter were taken up by the West Indians . |
| 9 | Shriver 's recent long term absence from the tour , following shoulder surgery , and her lack of match practice were shown up by an opponent who was playing the women 's game of today , powerful and merciless . |
| 10 | Therefore , it needs to be rapidly regenerated if exercise is to continue , and this regeneration is brought about by a substance called Creatine Phosphate ( C.P. ) . |
| 11 | Search costs are reasonable , provided the search is carried out by a trained librarian using appropriate professional skills in search strategy formulation . |
| 12 | The width of standard film is 35mm ; part of the width is taken up by the sprocket holes , and the picture or ‘ frame ’ size is 24mm X 36mm . |
| 13 | Therefore , the less this inner consciousness or Life Force is hemmed in by an instinctive mind structure , then the greater is the capacity for caring feeling and the more an offspring is capable of learning . |
| 14 | It is possible that Minton chose this subject , in which the relevance of the Crucifixion is cancelled out by the attention given to a game of chance , as an expression of his own despair at the malignancy of fate . |
| 15 | When you 're beating it does n't matter because the boom is held down by the mainsheet . |
| 16 | When the industry is taken over by a monopolist , the monopolist recognizes that marginal revenue MR is less than price at each output . |
| 17 | US regulation of the futures industry is carried out by the CFTC which sanctions new contracts or changes in trading practices . |
| 18 | During an eclipse , however , when most of the sun 's light is blocked off by the moon , one can observe the light from those stars . |
| 19 | In the former , it is perhaps the inadequacy of Earendel that is more prominent than his partial success ; at the end of the poem his light is blotted out by the greater light of dawn . |
| 20 | The pulsing light is picked up by a sensor at the distant end , converted into on-off electrical signals , amplified , fed to an digital-to-analogue converter and the information used to operate an earpiece , loudspeaker or other output device . |
| 21 | He says : ‘ I think that number will increase once the promised summer tax review is carried out by the new Conservative government . |
| 22 | The wife and the bachelor in the above cases should have been entitled to insist that the confusion be cleared up by a published clarification , but they should not have been able to obtain an award of damages against a newspaper which was not at fault . |
| 23 | Up in the gallery a careful watch is being kept on sound levels to ensure the noise from the fan is drowned out by the radiophonic wind effect now carrying through the studio 's talkback system and being picked up by the microphones . |
| 24 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |
| 25 | Its administration is carried out by a staff of several hundred who work under the direction of the general council . |
| 26 | After Zarathustra 's death his religion was taken up by the old priestly class known as the Magi and eventually became the faith of the Achaemenid dynasty . |
| 27 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 28 | At the Apollo 17 site an experiment was carried out by the astronauts which gave the seismic wave speeds down to a few kilometres depth in the vicinity of the site . |
| 29 | They remained in occupation until 16 October 1979 , immediately after the coup against Romero , when the factory warehouse was burnt down by the company and the women dislodged by armed members of the Treasury Police . |
| 30 | But the recommendation was thrown out by an overwhelming majority , with only Coun Orwig and education committee chairman , Coun Handel Morgan , voting to close the three schools . |