Example sentences of "was [prep] [be] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
| 2 | For example , market attractiveness was to be captured by factors such as long-run and short-run growth rates and the stage of the product life-cycle , whereas competitive strength was to be assessed by market share ( both absolute and relative ) relative product quality and breadth of product line , relative costs , and so on ( for more details see McNamee , 1985 ) . |
| 3 | In Andalusia little was to be gained by resistance at a time when French power looked invincibly stable : the intellectuals of Seville went over en bloc and acceptance of the inevitable became active collaboration in those groups where hatred of Godoy 's ‘ tyranny ’ had been combined with a qualified admiration for the French Revolution and enthusiastic regalism . |
| 4 | Here the discussion paper proposed a very strict rule : the assessment was to be made by reference to the contractual maturity of the debt , and no consideration was to be given to facilities which would permit it to be re-financed . |
| 5 | In what was seen as a model for similar deals with the other Soviet republics , payment was to be made by barter or by cash settlements in both hard and national currencies . |
| 6 | IBM Corp was scheduled to make an ‘ operational announcement ’ on its Adstar storage business in San Jose just after we closed on Friday , but we have to assume that it was not anything sufficiently dramatic that it would move the share price , otherwise the company would have had to announce it on the New York Stock Exchange before the market opened to prevent a false market operating in the shares ; the announcement was to be made by vice-chairman Jack Kuehler , and was also to include some personnel news ; IBM has been studying ways to separate Adstar from the rest of the company , Dow Jones & Co notes , and earlier this year , it hired Morgan Stanley & Co and the Boston Consulting Group to recommend ways to speed up the process , which could involve outside investors or a new class of IBM share — and those advisors were scheduled to be done with the preliminary work by now ; a first step would likely be the creation of Adstar as a wholly-owned subsidiary — it has kept separate books since last year ; but the IBM spokesman said some observers might be surprised by the announcement , which was to be concerned with Adstar 's ‘ operations as an IBM business unit and its future direction . ’ |
| 7 | One-half of this was to be sold by auction , and the profits above the official price of $ 42.2 an ounce were then to be used to promote aid to the less developed countries , whereas the other half was to be sold back to members at the prevailing official price . |
| 8 | His return to England seems to have been accompanied by Bishop Gerbrand of Roskilde , who was to be consecrated by Archbishop Æthelnoth of Canterbury , and is among the witnesses of the charter S 958 . |
| 9 | International trade was to be encouraged by member countries maintaining par values for their currencies so that stable rates of exchange would prevail . |
| 10 | It was to be financed by advertising revenue , but was it best described as ‘ commercial ’ or as ‘ independent ’ , as complementary to the BBC or as competitor ? |
| 11 | The exact electoral procedure was to be approved by Parliament on Feb. 17 , with a first round of voting due on Feb. 23 . |
| 12 | In the result , Co-operation seen as an exclusive alternative to Capitalism as the means of organising society for the production of wealth was , for all practical purposes , abandoned ; and abandoned with it was trade unionism seen as the means by which capitalism was to be displaced by Co-operation . |
| 13 | The L'Isle Jourdain were an ancient family , which had produced the twelfth-century bishop of Comminges , St Bertrand , whose cult was to be promoted by pope Clement V between 1290 and 1314 . |
| 14 | Safety cover was to be provided by combat support boats from the Support Squadron . |
| 15 | Encouragement in this direction was to be provided by tax incentives and state-subsidized research and development . |
| 16 | In the Christmas issue of NME the Record News section mentioned a new single by RESPECT with PHILIP OAKEY called ‘ What Comes After Goodbye ’ which was to be released by Chrysalis . |