Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] by [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the freezer at Tesco , 4lb packs of frozen petit pois are reduced by 80p to £1.69 and 2lb packs of frozen pommes noisettes are 65p , from £1.15 . |
| 2 | A Fat Bloke who supports Man U informs us at length about some 5-year rule under which English Welshmen called Speed are deemed by UEFA to be Not Foreign , a rule which the management of Stuttgart Internazionale are strangely ignorant of . |
| 3 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 4 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 5 | The programme is prefaced by tributes to Arlott from Richie Benaud and Ian Botham , but is otherwise unchanged from the original , as reviewed in WCM Oct 1988 . |
| 6 | The problem here is that unless some attempt is made by sociolinguists to ‘ unpack ’ the pertinent variables for which social class stands proxy , progress in formulating a satisfying explanation of the relationships between linguistic and social structure is likely to be slow . |
| 7 | This practice is justified by reference to the fact that those permanent staff members performing notionally the same job take on a quasi-supervisory function during the peak period . |
| 8 | The valuation date will usually be the rent review date ; and the court will lean in favour of a construction which produces the result that the rent is valued by reference to values prevailing at the start of the period for which it is payable ( Glofield Properties v Morley ( No 2 ) [ 1989 ] 2 EGLR 118 ) . |
| 9 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 10 | When the rabbit stock was reduced by myxomatosis to less than one per cent of what it had been , a number of warren systems inevitably became untenanted . |
| 11 | Other prelates were to repeat his experience before our period ended , but significantly in each case , as in his , the murder was occasioned by service to the crown and not by defence of the church . |
| 12 | One seat was lost by UUUC to an independent in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a consequence of an arrangement by which the anti-Unionist vote was not split between SDLP and Unity . |
| 13 | The now complete wagon underframe was taken by traverser to the southern side of the New Body Shop , where its body was fitted in four stages . |
| 14 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 15 | This submission was supported by reference to various decisions of the court to the effect that it is a strict test . |
| 16 | Order 16 , r 9 ( as revised ) made important changes to the rules on transfer and requires that : ( 1 ) the grounds of an application for transfer be stated by reference to the criteria in art 7(5) ; and ( 2 ) all applications ( whether or not based on " financial substance " ) be supported by a statement of value . |
| 17 | Marriage is designed by God to be a lifetime 's commitment . |
| 18 | Outside the garden , all is delightful chaos ; inside , reflecting the central concept of Islam , spontaneity is crushed by submission to a higher order . |
| 19 | This key policy issue is addressed by reference to recent events in the engineering sector in three contrasting local labour markets within the North West of England . |
| 20 | The same insincere welcome is used by Macbeth to Macduff : ‘ The labour we delight in physics pain' ( II.iii.48f. ) , and at the news of Duncan 's murder Lady Macbeth is given one of the most brilliant pieces of hypocrisy Shakespeare ever invented : ‘ Woe , alas ! /What , in our house ? ’ |
| 21 | In these latter cases , the guaranteed payment against the countersigned bill of exchange is made by reference to a measurable and external act such as , for example , completion and authentication of shipping documents . |
| 22 | Dissolved material may subsequently be reprecipitated or be reincorporated into other minerals , but the great proportion is carried by rivers to the ocean . |
| 23 | This work was subcontracted by EEG to John Whitney Jr and his Digital Productions — John Whitney Sr was a pioneer of computer animation whose abstract films inspired Con Pederson and Douglas Trumbull to try slit-scan . |
| 24 | The most important issue was considered by electors to be that of unemployment , an issue on which more preferred the Labour position to that of the Conservatives . |
| 25 | Since the Court of Appeal judgment in the Sonia Sutcliffe case , when damages of £600,000 awarded to the wife of the Yorkshire Ripper against Private Eye were reduced by consent to £60,000 , judges have been encouraged to give general guidance to juries . |
| 26 | Internally-set values based on the product were replaced by attention to the whole of the ‘ marketing mix ’ : product , price , place and promotion . |
| 27 | He and Tasker were chosen by Bonington to be members of the 1982 British Everest Expedition , and shortly before he left Leysin he wrote for the Parents ' Association Newsletter an account of his schooldays , affectionately remembered : |
| 28 | The role of the novel at this juncture is seen by Brooke-Rose to be crucial . |
| 29 | If the consideration for the takeover is calculated by reference to a formula then Appendix 2 of the Code should be consulted . |
| 30 | Gastric acid was collected continuously on to ice and the acid output during each 15 minute period was measured by titration to pH 7 with 0.1M NaOH . |