Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] by the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The third defendant denies the plaintiffs ' claim against him but if contrary to his contentions he is held liable to the plaintiffs , he claims against you to be indemnified against the plaintiffs ' claims and the costs of this action , alternatively contribution to such extent of the plaintiffs ' claims as the court may think fit , on the grounds that ( 1 ) at all material times , you were the accountants retained by and advising the plaintiffs and each of them in respect of the proposed transaction ( and in particular the financial aspects thereof ) in relation to which the said alleged liability of the plaintiffs and each of them to [ B.M.T. ] was incurred ; ( 2 ) in about the period from January to September 1983 , you acted in breach of contract and negligently towards the plaintiffs and each of them in that you failed to advise them properly or at all with regard to the said proposed transaction and the financial aspects thereof and in particular failed to explain the full nature and extent thereof to the plaintiffs and each of them and/or failed to advise the plaintiffs as to the commercial prudence of the same and/or the risks inherent in proceeding with the same and/or failed to warn them not to enter into the same ; ( 3 ) that in so far as any financial information was or may have been communicated by the third defendant he did so in reliance upon information supplied by you . |
| 2 | In the twenties , both in England and in America , we have a situation in which the infant and child mortality rates are fast declining , mainly owing to new advances in medical knowledge ; at the same time , the world 's values have been shaken by the First World War , writers and journalists have both more freedom and more inclination than ever before to discuss religion from an agnostic point of view , and the vengeful God of heaven and hell no longer impresses in quite the old way . |
| 3 | The charities to benefit have been nominated by the first three teams competing for the Clayton Trophy . |
| 4 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 5 | The first Abba/E systems running under Unitree are expected by the fourth quarter of 1993 . |
| 6 | The Pennsylvania law had been considered by the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia in October 1991 . |
| 7 | The earlier phases of his career had been dominated by the Second World War , the Cold War and the threat of a Third World War , and the Algerian War . |
| 8 | Will it be possible to finish the 12 — 2 guinea plates the 2nd thirty small ones and the thirty of which the first ground has been done by the first of April next — or the end of March — give opinion on this … ? ’ |
| 9 | However in all of these fields there was a still older tradition of the free market and elements of this were present in early strands of competition in both telecoms and radio ; these , however had often been eradicated by the mid-twentieth century . |
| 10 | His ‘ fascist ’ ideas had first been shaped by the First World War , which he felt Britain should not have entered . |
| 11 | The Rueff plan , which was presented to de Gaulle in mid-November , had three main planks : a substantial devaluation of the franc ( accompanied by the creation of a new franc equivalent to 100 old francs ) ; action to control the budget deficit , both through increased taxes and cuts in governmental expenditure ; and a decision to remove many restrictions on foreign trade and to reduce tariffs on trade with the other five Common Market countries ( in line with a commitment that had been made by the Fourth Republic the year before ) . |
| 12 | Since 1979 , after the changes in party policies had been accepted by the Third Plenum of the CCP , a number of important measures had been taken . |
| 13 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 14 | Most products simply called gin or dry gin will have been produced by the third cheaper method . |
| 15 | Besides the First Century cave , the archaeologists have discovered a group of other man-made caverns believed to have been used by the Second Century anti-Roman Jewish rebel , Bar-Kokhba . |
| 16 | This armour had been worn by the first Phoenix King during the ancient wars with Chaos . |
| 17 | boundary changes that we would like to have the full panoply of o o of inquiry a as the honourable gentleman knows , the the timetable was short here and what we had to do was to follow the model , er that had been provided by the last Labour government in seventy eight when it had a similarly tight timetable , took a similarly er er period , similarly short period of time er for the reviews and where erm the normal enquiries had to be dispensed with . |
| 18 | A Greenpeace report published in Warsaw reveals that toxic waste which has been refused by the third world is now being exported to Poland . |
| 19 | On the basis of largely commonsense reasoning , the following argument could be proposed , where the second and third sentences are predicated by the first : Again , it should be stressed that the relationship between the propositions is implicit , the absence of formal connectives forcing readers to infer cause-and-effect relations . |
| 20 | One of these was the Argyll , said to have been invented by the 4th Duke of Argyll , who died in 1770 . |
| 21 | Although a statement of intent has been signed , confirmation is needed from the boards of both companies and the acquisition is expected to be completed by the second quarter of this year . |
| 22 | The disarming process was due to begin from the moment of Senora Chamorro 's inauguration and be completed by the tenth of June . |
| 23 | ( After their first mention candidates will be designated by the first letter(s) of their surnames . ) |
| 24 | In finance , the crude picture in Herodotus ' list of the Tributes ( iii.89ff. ) and depicted on the reliefs at Persepolis — huge quantities of bullion brought by subject peoples — must be modified by the fourth century . |
| 25 | It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item . |
| 26 | If a photon is not caught by the first membrane , it may be caught by the second , and so on . |
| 27 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT is to be added by the second quarter of next year . |
| 28 | Support for Microsoft Corp 's Windows NT will be added by the second quarter of next year . |
| 29 | The output produced by the pattern recogniser becomes the data that must be accepted by the first stage of this system . |
| 30 | ULSTER hockey 's senior league title will be decided by the last game of the programme on Saturday … and it wo n't involve Lisnagarvey , the team which has had a four-year reign as champions . |