Example sentences of "be [verb] by a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And now these fears have been compounded by a sixth profitability study by accountants Spicer & Oppenheim whose gloomy conclusions may well prolong the sector 's agonies further . |
| 2 | One can still see this triumph of Brindley 's engineering skill , though it is now disused , having been superseded by a second tunnel , parallel with the first , which was constructed by Telford in 1827 . |
| 3 | TVS , which loses its south of England television franchise at end of year , said it had been approached by a third party , which may lead to an alternative take-over offer to the one already proposed . |
| 4 | However , an arrangement where the trader 's losses are met by a third party , not for commercial reasons but solely to encourage the trader to keep trading , is not legitimate . |
| 5 | By the time the customer walked into the shop , the joint had been wrapped by a second assistant whilst a third would fill the empty space in the window . |
| 6 | Particular care should be exercised when instructions are offered by a third party on behalf of either , for example , an aged parent , or where a husband offers instructions on behalf of himself and his wife . |
| 7 | Each lamella consists of a pair of membranes which at certain points are interspaced by a third membrane , the GRANAL REGION of the chloroplast . |
| 8 | Since the trial , the Code had been replaced by a second edition . |
| 9 | By driving his own cars when he was past his peak as a driver , he lost out on the development that could have been contributed by a second opinion . |
| 10 | And the London-based scientist said he believed it was more than a coincidence that the same colony seemed to have been affected by a second strain of the gizzard worm infection which killed 137 birds last year . |
| 11 | To equip this fish for its incredible journey across thousands of kilometres of ocean to its spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea , the eel 's eyes grow larger and their red pigments are replaced by a second type of blue pigments . |
| 12 | A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party . |
| 13 | As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 . |
| 14 | The parties therefore need to have agreed that , where they can not agree on the identity of an expert , the appointment may be made by a third party . |
| 15 | Their experience shows that military facilities may be conceded by a Third World state to the USSR when there exists a coincidence of interests but that such concessions provide leverage on Soviet policy as often as they act as levers for Soviet policy in bilateral relations with the Third World party . |
| 16 | First , through registration , the terms and conditions of the asset sale agreement and all related agreements can be inspected by a third party as they appear on the public register . |
| 17 | The tired and weak Fourth Republic had finally collapsed in 1958 , to be replaced by a Fifth Republic headed by Charles de Gaulle , whose nationalist prejudices were already well-known . |
| 18 | Then there 's her book — a series of short stories and reflections entitled Memoirs Of A Pretty Lady — that is due to be followed by a second volume next summer , ‘ if I finish it on time , which I 'd better ’ . |
| 19 | To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material . |
| 20 | The expert may be appointed by a third party , such as a company secretary instructing auditors to value shares , which is what happened in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 . |
| 21 | Presently they will be discovered by a third player . |
| 22 | However , in patients with hyperglobulinaemia and low optical readings ( signal:control cut off ratio <2 ) a positive result should be confirmed by a second generation recombinant immunoblot assay , which uses four antigens ( 5–1–1 , c-100–3 , c33c , and c22–3 ) . |
| 23 | Two zipped and flapped lower pockets are complemented by a third map-pocket over the left chest . |
| 24 | The three of them ran downstairs to the debtor 's room where they were joined by a fourth helper , Mrs Bangham , charwoman and messenger who volunteered her services as flycatcher and general attendant , and fanned the patient with a cabbage leaf throughout her delivery . |
| 25 | Stephen 's feisty Yorkshire wife Sally ( Jan Francis ) thereafter is harried by the accountant 's heavies , while the accountant ( James Grout ) is being hounded by a second set of heavies on the track of a very expensive painting . |
| 26 | Rather as in the case of the warranty given for defective goods , both buyer and seller find it advantageous to set out the procedure and remedies to be followed in the event of any claim of infringement being made by a third party . |
| 27 | But , according to Moore ( 1938a ) , " occasional specimens are taken in which the presence of a second set of teeth within the marginal ones indicates that the original stoppage of growth was followed by a second slight growing period , this in turn being replaced by a second period of thickening and growth stoppage , but such specimens are too rare to be a serious source of error " . |
| 28 | The ace of diamonds and another club ruff were followed by a second heart ruff in dummy , leaving the following position : |
| 29 | These were followed by a fourth sortie of around one hour ten minutes , involving a display . |
| 30 | This is compounded by a second problem . |