Example sentences of "as they [be] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the scope for advertising is limited , as they are prohibited by the Companies Act to advertise their own shares for sale ( as are all quoted companies ) . |
| 2 | All dates will be confirmed as soon as they are finalised by the Regional Committees . |
| 3 | As they are beaten by the waves the exposed limestone skeletons are broken up , and the sand thus formed smothers yet more areas of reef . |
| 4 | This means that transactions are processed as they are entered by the operator , and not at some later date . |
| 5 | It is not that men in management — MIM s as they are labelled by the pages of popular business handbooks — are unused to talk of a corporate future marked by chaos , turmoil , and ‘ reality turned upside down ’ . |
| 6 | The only workable categorization of Elvis 's music , as we have seen , is not by historical period but by song-type — or more precisely , by apparently self-contradictory assemblages of musical elements as they are mediated by the differential demands of varied songs at various moments . |
| 7 | The better opinion is that the pre-1926 priorities of the legal over the equitable estate , and of the earlier in time over the later , still apply , except in so far as they are abrogated by the provisions of the 1925 legislation . |
| 8 | Many commentators in the United States believe that the gap between the two growth rates will actually widen as electronic markets mature and as they are enriched by the added values of multimedia . |
| 9 | Are we losing them as they 're attacked by the sea ? |
| 10 | For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man : but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost . ’ ( v. 20/21 ) . |
| 11 | If the Mandelas were feeling any strain from the trial , it was n't evident ; they smiled broadly as they were escorted by the dancing , chanting crowd to their waiting car . |
| 12 | He recalls , without explicit statement ( though their letters affirm it ) , the way in which he and Helen interwove poetry with their own voyages of mutual discovery : We treat them [ poems ] as parts written for ourselves to act , in the spirit , as they were written by the poet , in the spirit . |
| 13 | Other implied terms seen in the context of hire include an obligation to deliver the goods in substantially the same condition as they were inspected by the hirer . |
| 14 | Phrases such as striving for the setting up of a ‘ Workers ’ republic' and the establishment of ‘ public ownership ’ were excised , as they were seen by the members of an affiliated teachers ' union , and ultimately by the bishops , to counter church doctrine ( Whyte 1980 : 82–4 ; Keogh 1982 : 7 , 77 n.5 ) . |
| 15 | Carla had once met them as they were walking by the seafront . |
| 16 | This would be the case if texts could only be understood completely as long as they were accompanied by the single , correct title . |
| 17 | Signals are thought to have evolved by the gradual modification of the activities which they resemble , as they were performed by the animals ' successive ancestors . |
| 18 | He claimed he could n't properly see the dials and light indicators on the dashboard , as they were obscured by the leather Momo steering wheel . |
| 19 | A big pie was not something that could be made in a field and cooked on a bonfire , it would require skill and expertise in the use of large ovens and these were available as they were used by the local manufacturers of earthenware pipes : |
| 20 | How they were used is not generally agreed upon , for , whilst the obverse of some of these cards — ‘ shopkeepers ' bills ’ as they were known by the eighteenth-century tradesmen — were sometimes utilized as an invoice to the purchaser , the majority surviving in public and private collections were not . |
| 21 | just as they were left by the Official Receiver . |