Example sentences of "it [be] [verb] by [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calls made from it were traced by police to the homes of witnesses due to give evidence in trials on Tyneside . |
| 2 | First published in 1977 by W H Allen , it is said by HCP to be better than Lin Haire Sargeant 's 1992 Heathcliff ( they would ) . |
| 3 | It is supported by reference to section 10(4) , section 11(1) and section 37(1) of the Act which provide as follows : |
| 4 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 5 | A rent will be unascertainable if it is fixed by reference to facts which can not be known at the date of the lease , eg the market rental value at a future date . |
| 6 | Springfield Farm is always a pleasure to look at and I 'm sure it is appreciated by visitors to the village . |
| 7 | Water from other sources , such as streams or shallow wells , should be regarded with suspicion unless it is proved by tests to be free from organic and bacterial contamination . |
| 8 | The Roman bronze figure of Ajax seated in meditation from the first century BC is the only three-dimensional representation of the Greek hero to have survived ; it is thought by Ortiz to be the clue to the subject of the Belvedere torso in the Vatican Collection . |
| 9 | ( It was believed by Descartes to be the seat of the soul . ) |
| 10 | It was applied by Baulig to Brittany ( 1935 ) and seemed to work quite well as the basic map used was the old French 1:80 000 hachured map which had plenty of spot heights often on flattish summits or spurs . |
| 11 | It was defeated by votes to 17 . |
| 12 | It was flown by Wade to fourth place in the 1938 Thompson Trophy race . |
| 13 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |