Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] by a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 2 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 3 | Under the terms of the Constitution the PCT was the sole legal political organization ; appropriate amendments and draft legislation on the creation of political parties were to be prepared by a presidential commission . |
| 4 | His passport carries the word ‘ courtier ’ in the space set aside for occupation — a joke he came to regret when arriving at Darwin airport to be faced by a massive , bronzed Australian immigration official who looked down and told him ‘ that 's not the way you spell courier , mate . ’ |
| 5 | They say that a weak , non-fighting force can be effective when the combatants want an excuse to stop shooting at each other and are glad to be separated by a symbolic line of bright blue berets . |
| 6 | She heard a madwoman howling — herself — but on market day , in St Jude 's , with the taverns serving gin and strong beer from five o'clock in the morning , who was likely to be disturbed by a little howling ? |
| 7 | An application for , i transfer does not require to be heard by a quarterly meeting of a board but can be heard by a meeting convened under s.5(1) . |
| 8 | The inauguration had to be authorised by a Special General Meeting or at an Annual General Meeting . |
| 9 | Preston 's father had decided to vary the tradition by volunteering , whilst in the Royal Navy , to be bombed by a low-flying aircraft with bags containing radioactive dust . |
| 10 | With effect from March 7 , small businesses with up to 20 staff could operate within a largely free-enterprise regime , precise rules for which were to be formulated by a new National Committee for Small Enterprises . |
| 11 | There is nothing to be gained by a hasty and wrong decision . ’ |
| 12 | In this film the Klingons come to be led by a progressive pacifist called Gorkon ( sounds like Gorbachev ) , who ends the futility of the Cold War with the Federation . |
| 13 | The interim coalition was to be led by a Prime Minister drawn from outside the main parties , and Lukanov 's government was to stay in office until the new government was formed . |
| 14 | Each was to be led by a Soviet Deputy Premier . |
| 15 | Hence his proposal of a ‘ non-nuclear club ’ , to be led by a disarmed Britain , to confine the danger within limits . |
| 16 | The Management Information Base semantics have been clarified so that MIB I and MIB II extensions , which typically reside at different locations in the MIB tree , can be given private parameters and object associations , allowing them to be recognised by a single Management Information Base browser . |
| 17 | He is quickly shipped off to San Francisco to be studied by a German scientist ( Jon Voight ) , and found to be the last survivor of a tribe massacred by the White Man . |
| 18 | If a favourable free energy change is to be obtained for crystallite formation , the entropy term has to be offset by a large negative energy contribution . |
| 19 | Alliance compounded its problems by allowing its production policies to be influenced by a consultative literary committee , on which theatrical big-wigs such as Arthur Wing Pinero played a leading role . |
| 20 | They can not risk their freedom by authorizing a standard of value to define what is to be maximized by a teleological principle of justice . |
| 21 | Later still , if his own health began to fail , the farm would have to be run by a competent manager . |
| 22 | Canoe 95 , the World Championships in slalom and WWR , is likely to be run by a separate limited company to avoid subjecting the BCU to financial risk . |
| 23 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 24 | The general election of 1992 also had to be called by a Conservative government at a time of unfavourable economic circumstances because of the approaching legal time-limit before which an election had to be called . |
| 25 | In practice the proposed social measures — the right of every worker to be covered by a collective agreement , the right of workers to lifelong educational opportunities , and so on — seem modest enough , but have provoked vigorous opposition in right-wing economic circles in the UK . |
| 26 | Areas to be covered by a common foreign security policy would be decided by consensus by the European Council but thereafter decisions on these issues could be decided by a weighted majority . |
| 27 | Economic matters including interest and exchange rates , monetary and fiscal policy , budgetary policy , are all at the heart of Government and all are to be decided by a central bank , which will be the most important institution . |
| 28 | He had reaffirmed , he said , Pakistan 's long-established position that Kashmir was a disputed territory , the future of which had to be decided by a free plebiscite under UN supervision . |
| 29 | The big prize looks sure to be decided by a special scoring table which will gauge which man performs best on the night at Crystal Palace and Christie insisted : ‘ Colin 's got a very good chance I reckon only Zelezny and Morceli will challenge him . ’ |
| 30 | Areas including social security and protection of social rights of the workers and protection of workers when their contract has been terminated , are left to be decided by a unanimous vote . |