Example sentences of "to be [verb] by [art] [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 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 4 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 5 | Mr Lawrie said the recommendation that he should pay a sum to the council to be fixed by the Scottish Secretary is unreasonable . |
| 6 | Her work also began to be recognized by the male-dominated science community , although attempts to join their establishments did not go unopposed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Parts of R.5 are rules to be observed by the recognised body itself ; other parts are rules to be observed by the individual shareholders . |
| 10 | Parts of R.5 are rules to be observed by the recognised body itself ; other parts are rules to be observed by the individual shareholders . |
| 11 | THE FIRST national index of ‘ grasses ’ is to be compiled by the National Criminal Intelligence Service which went into operation last week . |
| 12 | This callousness was repeated later when she cruelly promoted the young Krishnamurti as the new ‘ Lord Maitreya ’ , allowing him first to be abused by the theosophical pederast Charles Leadbeater and later sent to Harrow . |
| 13 | In particular , the European Court did not answer the second question posed for its consideration by this House , which was concerned with the criteria to be applied by the national court in deciding whether or not to grant interim protection of the rights claimed . |
| 14 | They were Jonathan 's children , sleeping in the workhouse , waiting to be killed by the tragic compulsion of their father . |
| 15 | At the meeting , Luigi Zanda , a leading Italian campaigner for Venice and President of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova , made a plea , published here in place of the usual editorial ( see p.1 ) , for the future of Venice to be treated by the Italian government with a new sense of responsibility and morality free from the political factionism which stalemates so much of the country 's public life . |
| 16 | The only person there not doing this is the cat-hater , who looks away and keeps very still , trying to be ignored by the feared animal . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The intention was for them to be escorted by the combined fleets from Brest and Toulon and the combination of the two , to outnumber any force likely to be brought against them , was a vital part of the French plan . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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) . |
| 21 | Most of these claims were to be heard by the International Arbitral Tribunal ( the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal ) to be set up under Article 2 of the Agreement . |
| 22 | Afterwards he will raise his voice and holler loud enough to be heard by the whole roomful of guests milling around chatting , perhaps talking excitedly with drinks in their hands , ‘ LADIES and GENTLEMEN ! |
| 23 | ‘ Following the failure of the stabiliser rear spar top chord , the structure could not sustain the flight loads imposed upon it long enough to enable the failure to be detected by the then existing inspection schedule . |
| 24 | A cuckoo 's egg is conspicuously larger than the host 's eggs to our eyes but the egg is sufficiently similar in pattern and colour not to be detected by the foster parents . |
| 25 | It had to be cast by the unsuitable technique of melting the metal in separate crucibles . |
| 26 | Care proceedings can only follow , however , at the instigation of the local authority or the NSPCC. ( b ) The child protection register Each area covered by a social services authority must have a child protection register to be maintained by the social services department . |
| 27 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 28 | He was sent back to be shot by the Red Army . ’ |
| 29 | However , in a special supplement on the impact of the Gulf crisis , published in September 1990 , the IMF suggested that if the price of oil stabilized at $25 a barrel , the industrialized countries could expect growth to be cut by a further 0.25 per cent to 2.5 per cent for 1990 . |
| 30 | BUSINESS rates in Scotland are to be cut by an extra £32 million , Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , announced yesterday , writes David Scott . |