Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to avoid placing an impossible burden on the shoulders of my young colleague , it has been decided that the investigation of the events whose tragic outcome was discovered this morning with be directed by Dottor Rosella Foria . ’ |
| 2 | Well then if you 're just paying that money into a building society and you 're paying , obviously you ca n't write out as many cheques as what you would normally d do in a bank and have a standing order so therefore it 's got ta be paid by cash . |
| 3 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
| 4 | Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium . |
| 5 | But the statutory formula does not seek to value the benefit to the employee as such , but requires the quantum of the benefit to be fixed by reference to the cost to the employer in providing it . |
| 6 | Even if a moderately large number ( N ) of individuals is used , mutations are likely to be fixed by chance if they reduce fitness by less than s1/N . |
| 7 | The fee for John Byrne has n't been disclosed … and the fee for goalkeeper Phil Whitehead who 's been on loan at the Manor for the past month will have to be fixed by tribunal … |
| 8 | The description of the course ‘ Bodies of Experience ’ to be taught by Mark Cousins on Fridays at 10.30 in the Lecture Hall of the Architectural Association , London , during this autumn term |
| 9 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
| 10 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
| 11 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
| 12 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 13 | Cadmium is a very volatile metal that has to be prepared by distillation ; as this was not achieved until 1818 , solders containing cadmium can not be ancient . |
| 14 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
| 15 | St Pancras typifies on the grandest scale the tendency for big city stations to be fronted by hotels . |
| 16 | The need to store and maintain specialised equipment in good condition is a problem that has to be faced by schools accepting pupils who need to use these in order to fulfil their special educational needs . |
| 17 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
| 18 | The Michael Stoute-trained colt , who will retire to stud at the end of the season , is likely to be joined by Dick Hern 's improving colt Gold Seam in the seven-furlong event . |
| 19 | Now it 's important that we come up with some interesting things because , as you know , as the course goes on we 're going to be joined by professionals from the media , in the form of Bob Satchwell later on this afternoon , and other gentlemen from the local radio and so forth tomorrow , and they 're actually going to , as it were , confirm , or not , as the case may be , the sort of things we 've been talking about . |
| 20 | The secret consistory decided to send Guido , cardinal bishop of Preneste , who was to be joined by Octavian , cardinal bishop of Ostia ( described as " holding the first place in the Roman Church after us " ) , at present acting as legate in France , and the pope 's own emissary , Master Philip the notary , to be present at a council to decide the imperial succession . |
| 21 | Baberton Crescent is in the process of inaugurating a scheme and hope to be joined by Foulis Crescent . |
| 22 | Baberton Crescent is in the process of inaugurating a scheme and hope to be joined by Foulis Crescent . |
| 23 | Miles and Martin are likely to be joined by Grandmaster Ian Rogers of Australia , who holds a clear advantage in his adjourned game against Martin . |
| 24 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Where invert levels are not suitable for the site to be drained by gravity , the additional cost of a rising main and pumps will need to be quantified . |
| 27 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 28 | Engles stresses another point also later to be emphasized by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard in African Political Systems . |
| 29 | There are four in particular that have significant educational implications : ( 1 ) the emphasis on individualisation , ( 2 ) the encouragement of the ‘ exercise ’ disposition or mode of behaviour , ( 3 ) the widening of activities to be embraced by drama , and ( 4 ) the importance of intuition , which I shall discuss under the section heading ‘ Dorothy Heathcote ’ . |
| 30 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |