Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 2 | The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation . |
| 3 | GARY ‘ CAT ’ JOHNSON , the coach of the season in 1987-88 , has been dismissed by the Leicester Riders . |
| 4 | At an early stage four bishops had joined the queen in Suffolk ; six had later witnessed the proclamation of Prince Edward as keeper of the realm ; towards the end , more than a dozen prelates had been coerced by the London mob into support for the queen 's party . |
| 5 | The transport union TGWU yesterday claimed the last hope of reviving the Manchester docks had been jeopardised by the Manchester Ship Canal company 's indifference to obtaining a new shipping service which union officials valued at £1.5million annually . |
| 6 | Although some of the people who became involved had been radicalised by the Vietnam War , many others did not share that experience . |
| 7 | The Hancock in the Russell Collection ( now in Edinburgh ) has been joined by the Francis Coston an instrument that like the Tisseran has a gorgeously painted soundboard . |
| 8 | In the public sector , both Queen 's University and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland remain our staunch and indispensable friends — as they have been since the Festival started , and since last year they have been joined by the Belfast City Council . |
| 9 | With the current leases due to expire in September 1991 , talks between the two sides began in May 1990 [ see p. 37458 ] , having been delayed by the December 1989 coup attempt . |
| 10 | Useful definitions are given by the Oxford English Dictionary . |
| 11 | Regular choral and orchestral performances are given by the Edinburgh University Musical Society ( EUMS ) . |
| 12 | In another inertial frame moving with relative velocity v = βc parallel to the x axis ( x axis ) the new ( primed ) coordinates of the same event are given by the Lorentz transformation where . |
| 13 | Both the real and imaginary coefficients A and A' in the partial fraction expansion are given by the Heavyside expansion theorem . |
| 14 | Two bilateral United States-Soviet treaties , the Threshold Test Ban Treaty signed in July 1974 [ see pp. 26614-15 ] and the Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty signed in May 1976 [ see pp. 27813-14 ; 36060 ] , limiting underground explosions to 150 kilotons or less , were ratified by the USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 9 , having been ratified by the US Senate on Sept. 25 . |
| 15 | The first is the Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents of 5 October 1961 , a convention which has been ratified by the United Kingdom and implemented without the need for any legislation . |
| 16 | She was still in awe of the man , her sense of respect mellowed by a feeling of deep sympathy for the Prince whose ‘ honorary grandfather ’ , Earl Mountbatten had been assassinated by the IRA just six months previously . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been fascinated by the IBM Environment for the past 20 years and I am only too pleased to unravel its complexities to those of you attending this seminar . |
| 18 | For as long as I can remember , I have been fascinated by the U.S.A. From childhood dreams of big cars , space rockets , Pacific coast and cowboys , America seemed to have it all . |
| 19 | It has been placed by the London Implementation Group , a health department unit co-ordinating the London shake-up . |
| 20 | At Hauz Khas a beautiful tank had been excavated by the Sultan Iltutmish and the artists and intellectuals slowly collected around its banks . |
| 21 | His first plan of revenge fails but he follows them to ancient Egypt , where they are joined by the Daleks and Mavic Chen , who know their Core was a fake . |
| 22 | In sum , the power to award their own degrees would be conferred only to those institutions which had been accredited by the C.N.A.A . |
| 23 | Of course , you would expect the native breed i.e. Exmoor and they are registered by the Exmoor Pony Society ( address from editor , ‘ Today 's Horse ’ ) . |
| 24 | Lubbers had been criticized by the ANC and other opposition groups ; ANC president Nelson Mandela called his proposed visit " inopportune and ill-timed " . |
| 25 | Truly , a former astronaut , who had served in the post for two years [ for his appointment see p. 37437 ] , had been criticized by the Bush administration for his support for the shuttle programme , which was deemed insufficiently cost-effective when compared with rival launching systems . |
| 26 | Consequently , since the appearance of Circular 11/77 , it has approved a number of new courses which have been validated by the CNAA . |
| 27 | By the end of the academic year 1981–2 a total of sixteen main independent centres for the provision of two-year part-time programmes leading to the Certificate in Education ( FE ) had been validated by the CNAA . |
| 28 | The exhibition has been arranged by the Poussin scholar , Professor Richard Verdi of the Barber . |
| 29 | The project has been arranged by the Liverpool Anti-Racist and Community Arts Association . |
| 30 | The talks have been arranged by the Bradford Area Pastoral Council in response to a need expressed in parishes in the area . |