Example sentences of "be [verb] by [indef pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 2 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 3 | ‘ According to present arrangements , he will not be considered by anyone outside the prison service or the Home Office until 1991 . |
| 4 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 5 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
| 6 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 7 | ‘ We think it will be supported by everybody in the town . |
| 8 | But now , with the campaign against Famagusta looming over him , and the palace full of the wild exhilaration of a conquering army , Nicholas was too occupied to be haunted by anything of the past . |