Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] it by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The National Association of Pension Funds ( NAPF ) acts as the lobbying body on behalf of the pension industry , but has no specific regulatory powers , nor does the Occupation Pensions Board ( OPB ) which comments on pension matters that are referred to it by the Secretary of State ( and also has responsibility for issuing contracting out certificates ) . |
| 2 | So much of its beauty had been stripped from it by the whipping winds . |
| 3 | Later it was found that its policies in relation to Polish territorial claims had been formulated for it by the Comintern as a way of weakening Poland . |
| 4 | The court only intervenes when the tribunal is outside the ‘ scope ’ which has been assigned to it by the legislature ; the judiciary will not intervene if the tribunal has simply made an error within its assigned area since this would eradicate the distinction between review of legality and appeal . |
| 5 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 6 | Always you are separated from it by an expanse of one thing or another : docks or roads . |
| 7 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 8 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |
| 9 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |
| 10 | In the case of sliced veneers a baulk of timber is clamped and slices are peeled off it by a machine very like a large plane . |
| 11 | The past is still a foreign country , but we have been shown round it by the most genial and expert of guides . |
| 12 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 13 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 14 | A. borealis is similar to A. fragilis but may be distinguished from it by the following characters : the shape of the modified arm spines which are flattened often with an axe shaped tip in borealis , while those of fragilis have a serrated edge ; the number of arm spines ; borealis has 3–4 , fragilis has 5–7 arm spines ; the distal oral papillae , which in borealis are small and low , often two on each side of the jaw , in fragilis they are slightly larger and more spine-like , with usually only one on each side of the jaw . |
| 15 | Now , at Pac Bo , under Ho 's chairmanship , the Party cleared its ideological decks and prepared to take advantage of the even more extraordinary opportunities that would be presented to it by the Second World War . |
| 16 | And though , of the two , the first is no longer available to support the judgment , the second — whether the Socialism perceived is dogmatic or diffident , Marxist or empirical — is operative still to provide , for better or for worse , assumptions about the form of industrial democracy and about the roles , contrasted or opposed , to be played in it by an industrial co-operative sector and the trade unions . |
| 17 | With a bit of luck , she would be begging for it by the time he came back . |
| 18 | Ostensibly it was to prosper from a mono-poly of trade with Spanish America , which would be bestowed upon it by the government in return for taking over the entire £9 million worth of unsecured national debt . |
| 19 | An ingenious Yamaha employee suggested a hoist for the drum , so that the jug could simply be held under it by the sprayman , or woman ( women undertake almost any job in the factory ) , making life easier , ensuring less waste and almost certainly fewer days off work due to back injuries ! |
| 20 | The vendor will also be concerned to know how quickly the cash will be returned to it by the purchaser . |
| 21 | A fairly narrow meaning has been ascribed to it by the Court of Appeal : |
| 22 | Above all , he had been led to it by the discovery that story , myth , could not only carry truth , but also be truth . |
| 23 | It also need have no privileges , since those required are passed to it by the initiator ( ie. the LIFESPAN Manager ) . |
| 24 | The Leeds said the plan to close 60 of its 481 branches across the country was part of its long-term strategy and had not been forced on it by the housing recession . |
| 25 | Great holes were torn in it by the German machine guns and shrapnel , but with a discipline that would have honoured the Old Guard , it closed ranks . |
| 26 | Because the cat was seen as evil , all kinds of frightening powers were attributed to it by the writers of the day . |
| 27 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 28 | It is now fairly clear , moreover , that political considerations , of not wishing to be seen as having ‘ destroyed the value of the pound sterling ’ , were of major importance in the Labour government 's initial resistance to devaluation in 1967 quite apart from powerful pressures against devaluation being exerted on it by the Bank of England [ Tomlinson , 1985 ] . |
| 29 | Unisys has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |
| 30 | To cover the glitch Intel Corp has created with Pentium — see front page — Unisys Corp has created the marketing rationale of the customer selecting the timing of its jump to the next generation rather than being forced to it by the vendor 's phasing out existing technology . |