Example sentences of "to be [vb pp] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 2 | BUSINESS rates in Scotland are to be cut by an extra £32 million , Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , announced yesterday , writes David Scott . |
| 3 | The advertisement will have to be authorised by an authorised person . |
| 4 | Junod , it will be recalled , proposed that the maternal uncle 's indulgent behaviour was to be explained by an earlier matrilineal ( or ‘ matri-archal ’ ) phase which had left its mark on the now formally patriarchal BaThonga . |
| 5 | The drop to zero of the longitudinal voltage ( Figure 2 ) reflects this inability of electrons to be accelerated by an electric field , thus , researchers argued , because the number of mobile electrons in the MOSFET is changed by the gate voltage sweeping the Ferm energy , EF , through the Landau levels , the experimental features of Figure 2 reflect the critical circumstances as successive Landau levels are completely filled . |
| 6 | All of our economic life is to be decided by an unelected , unaccountable single central bank . |
| 7 | 2.3.5.1 Market purchase Authorisation The CA 1985 requires a market purchase to be sanctioned by an ordinary resolution ( s166(1) ) . |
| 8 | Instead national elites need to be supported by an underpinning structure of regional and local elites , and the policy-makers at these sub-national levels also play a major role in channelling diverse influences from external business and social elites into government ( Domhoff , 1967 , 1976 , 1978a ; Hunter , 1953 ) . |
| 9 | In the second strand these centralized activities were to be supported by an intensive in-school programme in which the implications of staff development were contextualized within the individual institution . |
| 10 | Having decided that an environmental impact study was necessary , it wanted the study to be undertaken by an independent group which would be more sympathetic to community concerns and interests , rather than have such a study conducted by a government agency such as An Foras Forbartha . |
| 11 | More radical proposals include suggestions to allow all military procurement to be undertaken by an independent civilian agency and not by the military ; all future defence and foreign policy posture statements to be decided by Congress and not the military ; and regular Congressional debate on military priorities and their socio-economic consequences . |
| 12 | In a slightly different context , that of the attitude to be adopted by an appellate court where there has been a change in the circumstances of the plaintiff since the trial at first instance , Harman LJ enunciated the principle that , " the court should never speculate where it knows " : Curwen v James [ 1963 ] 1 WLR at p753 . |
| 13 | Under an agreement ( the so-called Peshawar Accord ) reached by a majority of the mujaheddin groups in Peshawar , Pakistan , on April 24 [ see p. 38847 ] , power in the new state would rest in the hands of the 51-member Islamic Jihad Council ( IJC ) , headed by interim President Seghbatullah Mujjaddedi , but the IJC was to be replaced by an interim government ( headed by Burhanuddin Rabbani , leader of the moderate Jamiat-i Islami ) in late June . |
| 14 | The confusion between the labels ‘ race ’ and ethnicity allows an outmoded biological determinism to be replaced by an implicit cultural determinism . |
| 15 | Then in winter the wicker table and chairs are moved back into the house , to be replaced by an old formica kitchen table . |
| 16 | Here two doctors must support the application to be made by an approved social worker or nearest relative . |
| 17 | LHB have given timetables for Medical Referrals of 5 working days from receipt of referral for an employee to be seen by an Occupational Health Nurse and 10 working days for an Occupational Health Physician . |
| 18 | Roberta M. Olson Ottocento : romanticism and revolution in nineteenth-century Italian painting ( The American Federation of Arts and Centro Di , New York and Florence , 1992 ) 293pp. fully illustrated in b/w and col. $67.95 Catalogue of the first major exhibition on this topic to be seen by an American audience since 1949 ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 22 , November 1992 , p.11 ) . |
| 19 | THE OFFICIAL who led the local authority response to the Lockerbie disaster , Neil McIntosh , now chief executive of Strathclyde regional council , is to be honoured by an American university . |
| 20 | Jacobitism 's main base was in the north-east lowlands , an area where it had been difficult to insert Presbyterian ministers after the Glorious Revolution , and where Stuart loyalism continued to be nurtured by an active episcopalian clergy . |
| 21 | Any new stock will need to be constituted by an appropriate trust deed or loan stock instrument . |
| 22 | An Emergency Meeting agreed on enlarging the clubhouse , including making the ground floor of the cottage into the Ladies ' locker room — to be reached by an uncovered , external stairway ! |
| 23 | On the other hand , individual artistry is likely to be enhanced by an increased consciousness of craft . |
| 24 | What was most encouraging was the extent to which common goals and ideals were backed up by local collaboration and a significant amount of interaction at the field level ; what was most disappointing was that this continued to be overlaid by an enduring legacy of suspicion — even hostility — at more senior levels . |
| 25 | The birds squawked and flapped , and the very top of the bush seemed to be flicked by an invisible hand which knocked a few shreds of leaf out into the air . |
| 26 | Habash was placed briefly in custody while in a Paris hospital to be questioned by an investigating magistrate about an arms and explosive cache found near Paris in 1986 and about several bombings and hijackings . |
| 27 | MRS is most likely to be caused by an airborne virus , rather than a bacterium or agent like that which causes BSE . |
| 28 | The production side is assumed to be represented by an aggregate production function relating output , Y , to total ( malleable ) capital , K , and labour , L : where F is a twice differentiable increasing concave function , homogeneous of degree one . |
| 29 | The strength of the HNC/HND system of group awards needs to be reinforced by an additional form of certification to recognise success in each unit making up the group . |
| 30 | As a result , the brunt of investment pressures will have to be borne by an ever-decreasing stock of pubs ; and what good pubs we have left will be more than ever exposed to the cold winds of change . |