Example sentences of "be [verb] by a [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A further 60 seats would be filled by a second vote in which electors would express their preference for political parties rather than individual candidates , with the seats being distributed in accordance with the proportion of the vote achieved by each party .
2 As security it was agreed that Mr. O'Brien would guarantee the payment by the company of its indebtedness and that his liability under the guarantee would be secured by a second charge over the house which was believed to have an equity of about £100,000 .
3 The parties therefore need to have agreed that , where they can not agree on the identity of an expert , the appointment may be made by a third party .
4 Their experience shows that military facilities may be conceded by a Third World state to the USSR when there exists a coincidence of interests but that such concessions provide leverage on Soviet policy as often as they act as levers for Soviet policy in bilateral relations with the Third World party .
5 First , through registration , the terms and conditions of the asset sale agreement and all related agreements can be inspected by a third party as they appear on the public register .
6 The tired and weak Fourth Republic had finally collapsed in 1958 , to be replaced by a Fifth Republic headed by Charles de Gaulle , whose nationalist prejudices were already well-known .
7 Then there 's her book — a series of short stories and reflections entitled Memoirs Of A Pretty Lady — that is due to be followed by a second volume next summer , ‘ if I finish it on time , which I 'd better ’ .
8 To sum up this section , we can say that the first phrase of a theme may be followed by a second phrase to make a complete sentence , either through exact repetition , or by various degrees of change which can extend to the introduction of completely new material .
9 The expert may be appointed by a third party , such as a company secretary instructing auditors to value shares , which is what happened in Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 .
10 Presently they will be discovered by a third player .
11 However , in patients with hyperglobulinaemia and low optical readings ( signal:control cut off ratio <2 ) a positive result should be confirmed by a second generation recombinant immunoblot assay , which uses four antigens ( 5–1–1 , c-100–3 , c33c , and c22–3 ) .
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