Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nervous riders are taken on by Blue Well Riding Centre ( Tel : 0267 202274 ) at Pencader , Dyfed , limited to four guests only on the Monday to Friday courses . |
| 2 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 3 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 4 | The SAWS points to cases where outstanding women associates are passed over by younger , less experienced men sharing the same school tie . |
| 5 | The owners ' subjective opinions are borne out by objective facts . |
| 6 | Mr Fenney also has been ordered to comply with a landscaping scheme ; close the centre by 9pm every evening ; and make sure that his floodlights are switched off by that time . |
| 7 | Probably the extra words are left in by most draftsmen because of understandable caution . |
| 8 | His words were taken up by many who would not have dreamed of opening any of his more technical works , and he came to be in great demand as a speaker at rallies and at the numerous conferences and seminars on the death of images organized by the Universities , the Churches and the innumerable Humanist organizations which had mushroomed in the immediately preceding decades . |
| 9 | French Renaissance and Italian Renaissance styles were taken up by other railway architects — notably at the Michigan , Southern , and Rock Island station at Chicago ( 1871 , and reconstructed after the Great Fire of Chicago in 1872 ) , New Haven ( 1870s ) , Chicago Union ( 1881 ) , and later at Salt Lake City , Utah ( 1909 ) — but nothing could halt the headlong growth of the complications of the picturesque . |
| 10 | Remote and isolated , the quarries were remarked on by many an unbelieving traveller in this region which Defoe called ‘ the wildest , most barren and frightful of any that I have passed over in England … |
| 11 | The four vacant ministries were taken over by former state secretaries as follows : Gunter Halm of the FDP ( Economics ) , Peter Kauffold of the SPD ( Food , Agriculture and Forestry ) , Werner Skowron of the CDU ( Finance ) , and Manfred Walther of the CDU ( Justice ) . |
| 12 | In the eastern provinces , where there were well-established traditions of kingship , many surviving dedications were made up by local communities who likened the reigning emperor to a god . |
| 13 | Mrs Jackie Bowshell organised the event and cars were brought in by regular customers to a strict timetable . |
| 14 | A number of previous attempts to penetrate this male club had been unsuccessful , with the raiding parties being driven back by irate men . |
| 15 | Finally , in the twelfth century BC , the Granary Style appeared — a very meagre type of decoration in horizontal bands — and the Close Style , in which the designs were hemmed in by dense fringes , bands , and multiple borders ; the purely decorative aspect makes it difficult to identify the motifs . |
| 16 | Recordings were put out by small companies and would have limited sales compared to popular , commercial discs . |
| 17 | The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms . |
| 18 | Most successful companies are bought out by large customers who see them as a way of getting into new technologies . |
| 19 | The economics involved may mean some smaller ITV companies are taken over by larger ones or even open to takeover from Continental broadcasters . |
| 20 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 21 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 22 | Wing movements are brought about by powerful muscles , the depressor and elevator pectoral muscles . |
| 23 | Cleaning and other domestic duties are carried out by Domestic Assistants , and every EPH has cooking staff , clerical support , and help with gardening and building maintenance , generally provided by a gardener/handyman . |
| 24 | As state functions are taken over by private companies , even if made up of ex-civil servants , we will find them dropping out of the public records net . |
| 25 | Can class barriers be broken down by educational reform ? |
| 26 | The tins were dug up by hungry residents of the capital for consumption or sale . |
| 27 | New areas were opened up by speculative building programmes . |
| 28 | Towns go all out for City Challenge cash Multi-million pound City Challenge bids were sent off by hopeful Cleveland towns this week . |
| 29 | These elements were acted on by two forces : gravity , the tendency for earth and water to sink , and levity , the tendency for air and fire to rise . |
| 30 | That had resulted in 150 companies being taken on by five multiples and a 30 per cent increase in product listings . |