Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb base] [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most recipients who contacted The Northern Echo have been sickened by the views expressed . |
| 2 | The soft clay cliffs on this coast have been eroded by the sea since Roman times and 29 villages have been lost to the sea . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many directives under the single market programme have been implemented by the United Kingdom ; and what percentage have been implemented by the other EC members . |
| 4 | To take just two examples : in Nuremberg junctions have been remodelled to accommodate cafés and pedestrian-friendly squares ( Figure 6.49 ) , whilst in Freiburg narrow , calmed streets with insufficient space for extensive tree-planting have been greened by the simple expedient of growing climbing plants to mask the canyon-like street walls ( Figure 6.50 ) . |
| 5 | Number twos tend therefore to be passed over ( except for the top job in America , for which agreeably relaxed standards of industry have been set by a recent incumbent ) . |
| 6 | His essay , ‘ Of Parents and Children ’ , still makes salutary reading , and by no means sings the praises of paternity ; it suggests that most of the ‘ noblest works ’ of civilisation have been accomplished by the childless . |
| 7 | Two sisters sentenced to life in prison for murder have been freed by the Appeal Court after it was revealed that the Police deliberately withheld crucial evidence . |
| 8 | The administrative arrangements and rules adopted for the experiment have been endorsed by the House for the permanent coverage , and so , for the time being , the House is televised and reported on television today in much the same way as during the experiment . |
| 9 | Two codes of practice have been promulgated by the Law Society relating to Publicity and to Introductions and Referrals . |
| 10 | How can History be a unity if it is also conflictual , if each action is aimed at destroying the other and results in a double negation in which the original aims of each action have been destroyed by the other ? |
| 11 | The discovery of mistakes and the taking of remedial action have been propelled by a powerful correcting mechanism . |
| 12 | An accolade for Felix Schofield and Mrs Swan — I hear that photographs of posters done by them for Christian Aid have been used by the Church of Scotland 's Publicity Department as illustrations of an effective means of poster-design for communication . |
| 13 | Since 1937 , the uniforms worn by the British Army , Navy and Air Force have been made by the Gloucester firm of J Compton Sons and Webb . |
| 14 | Meanwhile , Exeter manager Alan Ball and his Second Division club have been charged by the FA over last month 's end-of-season uproar . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry how many directives under the single market programme have been implemented by the United Kingdom ; and what percentage have been implemented by the other EC members . |
| 16 | Potentially large resources of chromite and olivine sand have been discovered by the MRP on the sea bed to the south of Rhum ( MRP 106 ) . |
| 17 | Such payments to a spouse will normally end if he or she remarries , but the original provisions in the 1938 Act excluding a child from further benefit on attaining the age of majority or on marriage have been repealed by the 1975 Act . |
| 18 | The Senior Forrester reports that no trees in the Village have been infected by the Dutch Elm Disease , and he will inspect them again in the Spring . |
| 19 | And the only marks of their passage have been obliterated by the next generation . |
| 20 | And the only marks of their passage have been obliterated by the next generation . |
| 21 | Veterinary postgraduate studies for the PhD degree have been funded by the Wellcome Trust , the AFRC and the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 22 | The older though continuing tensions between cultural authority and cultural independence have been transformed by the increasingly dominant social relations of the new means of production and reproduction . |
| 23 | In a year when all other parts of the charitable sector have been hit by the drop in disposable income , environmental charities have gone from strength to strength . |
| 24 | The desire to own property has been advanced by the Conservative government 's ‘ Right to Buy ’ scheme , but the moves towards home ownership have been accelerated by the benefits of mortgage interest tax relief and the absence of capital gains tax ( as discussed earlier in the chapter ) which mean that house purchase is perceived as being an attractive subsidised investment . |
| 25 | Those that vacate the burrow first should be reintroduced via other unferreted holes and this work sequence continues until all known sections of the burrow have been investigated by the animals . |
| 26 | Since 1990 excavations on the site have been sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania with a team of archaeologists from the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . |
| 27 | The manufacturers for this months article have been preselected by the magazine . |
| 28 | The manufacturers for this months article have been preselected by the magazine . |
| 29 | The search for characteristics which are common to all services has floundered and attempts to treat the services as a homogeneous group have been plagued by the differences between services , in the kinds of labour involved , the type of work performed and the nature of the product . |
| 30 | In past years events of the meeting have been covered by the media . |