Example sentences of "and it be [verb] by [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This Government is bankrupt of ideas and it is motivated by one thing , the need to survive . |
| 2 | The structure of the international economy — that it is shaped by relations between national economies , each with their own dynamic , and it is characterized by one national economy in a hegemonic position . |
| 3 | I regard barbaric sport , not only perhaps as fox hunting but also such things as boxing , where two people , two individuals do their best to hit the life out of the other and it is watched by thousands of people . |
| 4 | The loft ran the length of the house from front to back , and it was lit by two unshaded forty-watt bulbs . |
| 5 | Soviet leaders knew that war with America was unthinkable : NATO had been unable to match Soviet conventional strength in Europe because of the cost , but Dulles threatened ‘ massive retaliation ’ with nuclear weapons in the event of a Soviet threat to US vital interests and it was understood by 1955 that an atomic exchange in Europe would devastate the continent . |
| 6 | The rewriting of the syllabus began when Mary arrived and it was completed by 1980 . |