Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advantages that skill and intelligence once gave me are nullified by shop bought electronics and an ’ Ever Ready ’ Power Pack . |
| 2 | The Law Society acts through its Council which is composed of 70 solicitors , 56 of whom are elected by members of the Society with the remaining 14 being elected by the Council itself . |
| 3 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 4 | Just four of the top names M & S , Sainsbury 's , Safeway and Tesco take half of its output and sales to them are rising by 10pc a year . |
| 5 | For example , in 1980 the British government consulted no fewer than 500 groups in drafting its legislation based upon the Finniston Report on Engineering , even though many of these groups had a negligible impact upon the government , sixteen of them are regarded by Richardson and Jordan as key' groups . |
| 6 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 7 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 8 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 9 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 10 | Both of them are captivated by what I shall call ‘ the myth of the sense behind the sentence ‘ . |
| 11 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
| 12 | Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge . |
| 13 | Most of them are performed by women , and most women continue to perform them into their old age , whether or not they have formerly had paid employment . |
| 14 | Nearly all of them are bought by adults for themselves . |
| 15 | Any amino acids in the nectar are probably of little importance and nectars high in them are avoided by the birds . |
| 16 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 17 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 18 | Some of them are taken by instrumentation but others are eye observations . |
| 19 | Most of them are produced by women , who provide insights that come from relating female experience to a body of writing ; logically , there is no reason why these insights should not be available to male critics with the right sympathies and sensibility , but in practice most of this criticism is by women . |
| 20 | The Commission accept that both the 1968 and 1978 Theft Acts and the case law on them are thought by some to be " seriously defective " , but the draft Code was a restatement not a Code to reform the substance of the law . |
| 21 | Some of them are described by Tusser in his Husbandly Furniture : |
| 22 | Well dey are known by dere fruits |
| 23 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 24 | Even if the T test is made , WS , BS and I are lowered by -5 each . |
| 25 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 26 | This means , I am defined by not being my opposite : not a man , not walking in from outside . |
| 27 | I am struck by the image of ‘ fire ’ in ‘ Paterson . ’ |
| 28 | I pick up the ‘ Glass Dildo ’ photo again and this time I am struck by Cicciolina 's expressiveness . |
| 29 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 30 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |