Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv prt] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Administrative assistant — the accuracy of the checking procedure , ie the number of errors undetected at this stage that could be referred back by the personnel section or the finance department . |
| 2 | Nature has , of course , tremendous resilience in coping with abuse ; even great quantities of waste can be broken down by the bacteria in the water . |
| 3 | Erm , I like it there to be filled in by the managers older by about two years or so . |
| 4 | This serial number will be filled in by the lexicographers and will represent the order in which the Project Director requires the forms to be actioned . |
| 5 | Key technical issues are : whether the operational systems such as payroll can be developed quickly , despite application backlogs , and changed easily as requirements inevitably change ; whether personal computing software is available to set up your Personnel Information System quickly and flexibly without direct recourse to computer professionals , allowing flexible ad hoc reporting and rapid response to continually changing requirements ; whether summaries of this information can be extracted to enable planning , monitoring , controlling and modelling applications to be carried out by the personnel planners . |
| 6 | Even the policy-making functions will generally be carried out by the executives rather than the board itself . |
| 7 | The Constitution is put into enforcement , and then the supreme People 's Council shall be established with the representatives who will be elected by general election which shall be carried out by the provisions of the Constitution . |
| 8 | ‘ The Project ’ shall mean the programme of work to be carried out by the Parties to the Agreement in accordance with the terms and conditions of the IEATP ‘ Grant Offer Letter ’ which shall mean the letter from the Secretary of State dated 10 July 1990 and attached as Addendum C. |
| 9 | It was hard to be torn up by the roots , to have his books , easels , prints and materials of study dragged from their places . |
| 10 | The whole must be torn out by the roots . |
| 11 | But her remarks in America would subsequently be picked up by the papers here — so she would have two platforms . |
| 12 | If you are on your GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 13 | If you are on GP 's books , then you 'll be picked up by the schemes . |
| 14 | Am I going to some strange hospital with him to see his dad , or am I going to wander around Bristol all day waiting to be picked up by the police or my poor darling anxious parents ? |
| 15 | She was a singer in a band which was on the verge of big pop success when the group started to be messed around by the men in suits . |
| 16 | Absurd of him , because at the end of the following week the annual staff assessments were due to be drawn up by the Superintendents . |
| 17 | Many children are quite happy to run , push , pull , ride and climb , but when an adult is standing by , ready to help , she is sure to be drawn in by the children as in the following example . |
| 18 | Even so , such crowds gathered that in parts of Lower Bavaria and the upper Palatinate halls reserved for the ceremonies were overfilled and had to be closed off by the police . |
| 19 | They 're the only people who can keep anything open out in the sand , and not be closed down by the gangcults . |
| 20 | The League had already declared that it would boycott the investiture and , when he stood up to speak , a hundred or so extremists began shouting and jeering , and dozens had to be dragged off by the police before he could be heard . |
| 21 | This is a very appealing theory but scarcely seems to be borne out by the facts ; after all , we dream about all sorts of things which in no way do we wish to experience in real life . |
| 22 | It was generally agreed that republics were now much more likely than monarchies to use them ; and this belief seems to be borne out by the facts . |
| 23 | If people are working in groups , anyone who spends too long recording or drawing will either be hurried up by the others or excluded from the group 's progress . |
| 24 | The Spanish laws against drug use in those days were exceptionally severe , and I was terrified in case you should be found out by the police or the drug squad . |
| 25 | However , a very restrictive express term which tries to prevent an ex-employee making use of mundane skills will be likely to be struck down by the courts as being in restraint of trade . |
| 26 | All contracts could be described quite properly as being in restraint of trade , but this was not a term of abuse , and only those contracts which were in unreasonable restraint of trade would be struck down by the courts . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not going to be mucked about by the likes of you , mate . |
| 28 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 29 | Unfortunately it is very likely that among the men and women best qualified by talent , temperament and experience to become MPs many would be put off by the conditions imposed by the STV on the winning and the retention of a seat . |
| 30 | Manville refused to be put off by the objections . |