Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | The ayatollah had to be flown by helicopter to his chosen head quarters-symbolically , a school in the poor part of South Teheran , far from the villas and the palaces of the northern sector , which had till now dominated the lives of the masses . |
| 11 | Moreover , the reference to Jewish patients who have died — ‘ the body not to be touched by hospital staff . |
| 12 | There was an other-world stillness about the place , despite the previous night , and even the castle seemed to be touched by magic . |
| 13 | A beating system is employed so that some rabbits , especially those that escape behind the beaters , are shot while others are flushed forward to be killed by carefully-positioned waiting guns . |
| 14 | One hundred and one patients were randomised into two groups : patients to be treated by heater probe ( n=50 ) . |
| 15 | Take care when handling the artwork as the rub-down dry transfers of the artwork are liable to be damaged by scratching . |
| 16 | ‘ Home for the kings of Northumberland and the first English castle ever to be damaged by gunfire . |
| 17 | What is surprising is the extent to which it seems continually to be ignored by business information providers . ) |
| 18 | This led to blows on the set and they had to be separated by actor Alan Hale . |
| 19 | The GEF is likely to handle most of the funds which are expected to be pledged by donor countries under conventions on climate change and the protection of biological diversity due to be agreed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil , in June . |
| 20 | The infant is held to be beset by anxiety which is believed to be related both to the notion of the death instinct , and to its confrontation with the complexity and contradictory nature of its environment . |
| 21 | But if the two ca n't agree over planning permission , the peace of wildlife here is unlikely to be disturbed by development work in the near future . |
| 22 | Prior to 1932 the courts refused to allow the chain of contracts to be disturbed by tort actions . |
| 23 | ‘ Change skins , ’ he said , quietly yet clearly enough to be heard by Ace and the Marines . |
| 24 | HBcAg was usually the first viral antigen to be detected by immunohistochemistry ( Fig 1B ) . |
| 25 | However , parietal cell homeostasis seems to be maintained by modulation of three other acid base transport systems , all localised on the basolateral membrane : Cl - /HCO 3 - exchange , which lowers pH i by HCO 3 - extrusion and Na + /H + exchange . |
| 26 | No walker who visits Pembrokeshire can fail to be tempted by part of the 180 mile coastal path . |
| 27 | Facets tend to be cut by sand abrasion at right angles to the wind , the facets being curved as on this microscale wind abrasion increases upwards . |
| 28 | This is not surprising since all geared wheels had to be cut by hand . |
| 29 | As can be seen from the photographs the housing joints between the top rail and curved members are not 45 degrees so these had to be cut by hand and not routered , this also applied to the tops of the glazing bars . |
| 30 | And then we had to cut those out , by hands hand , that er of course entailed quite a lot of work er for er for the mortices to be cleaned out , and the tenons to be cut by hand , so that they fit in the proper places . |