Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision to proceed was taken by the Slovak authorities immediately after the breakdown of EC-sponsored talks ( earlier bilateral talks having ended without agreement on Oct. 13 ) . |
| 2 | The cAMP produced was measured by radioassay . |
| 3 | Since local councils borrowed to finance virtually all their capital expenditure , permission to borrow was used by central departments to set the total capital spending limits for local authorities , determine national service priorities for capital spending , and set common design standards and cost yardsticks which ensured a tight degree of economy in capital projects . |
| 4 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 5 | The bromodeoxyuridine immunohistochemical technique has overcome many of the problems associated with the tritiated thymidine technique and the accuracy of this technique has been verified by Lacy et al . |
| 6 | This technique has been copied by insects , including ladybirds and certain moths and butterflies . |
| 7 | That technique has been considered by many interested in waste management , because it achieves considerably higher volumes of reduction than incineration , and seems to offer good prospects for even better pollution control standards . |
| 8 | This technique has been used by salespeople for many years and consequently should be used with care , especially with professional buyers who are likely to have experienced its use many times and know exactly what the salesperson is doing . |
| 9 | However , the importance of such protection has been recognized by U.K. legislators and the judiciary and , as a result , computers and computer software are reasonably well protected from counterfeiting and piracy . |
| 10 | Public sector housing , housing associations , building has been cut by two thirds . |
| 11 | Now the museum has moved to a new incarnation to accommodate its popularity — a former estate nearby , where a $9.2 million , 27,000-square-foot building has been constructed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects , seeking to replicate the mythical New England town hall , as does everything in the landscape from ice cream parlours to petrol stations . |
| 12 | The new building has been designed by Jeremy Dixon and Edward Jones and will occupy 20,000 square feet of space on four floors , created out of three early Victorian wool merchants ' houses in Cookridge Street adjacent to Leeds City Art Gallery . |
| 13 | A ‘ substantial ’ three-year grant has been given by the DoH to the National Association for the Protection from Sexual Abuse of Adults and Children with Learning Disabilities . |
| 14 | Another change in local government finance is that the rate support grant has been replaced by the revenue support grant . |
| 15 | In recent years , moreover , a growing proportion of total grant has been contributed by specific grants ( 17.6 per cent in England , 1981 /2 ; 25.6 per cent in 1987/8 ) , which — being tied , unlike block grant , to specific services — leave authorities with less discretion to determine spending priorities . |
| 16 | A £1,000 grant has been recommended by Langbaurgh 's finance committee towards the provision of a ramp for disabled people to have access to Scaling Dam sailing club which has a specially adapted dinghy for them to enjoy the sport . |
| 17 | Restructuring grant has been paid by the Government since 1987 . |
| 18 | IBM Corp has been hit by the backwash of Amdahl Corp 's warning , and Moody 's Investors Service Inc has downgraded the long-term debt and related securities of IBM and its financially supported IBM Credit Corp , IBM International Finance NV and IBM Japan Ltd by two notched to single-A-1 from double-A-2 . |
| 19 | Santa Clara , California-based Software Publishing Corp has been hit by a shareholder class action lawsuit alleging securities violations between January 21 1993 and April 2 1993 , which also names two of the company 's officers as defendants : the company says the suit has no merit and will fight it vigorously . |
| 20 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 21 | IBM Corp has been sued by E-Systems Inc , which alleges that it broke a contract for electronics work on an Air Force aircraft : according to the Dallas Morning News , E-Systems is seeking $65m in damages from IBM ; the dispute involves the Talon Combat II aircraft , which IBM is building with Lockheed Corp ; E-Systems signed a 1988 agreement to integrate and install equipment on the plane as an IBM subcontractor . |
| 22 | It is further true that some degree of heritability has been indicated by twin and pedigree analysis , of varying degrees of sophistication and reliability , in virtually every measurable category of cognitive ability and personality trait thus far studied . |
| 23 | Bird-watching has been used by many researchers to study children 's behaviour . |
| 24 | THE first Anglo-Scottish electronic trade payment link has been introduced by the Bank of Scotland . |
| 25 | A NEW audio-visual show highlighting the loss of the county 's woodland has been launched by the Council for the Protection of Rural Essex . |
| 26 | Michael Smith writes : Radical plans to privatise parts of the European railway system and help switch freight to rail has been proposed by the European Commission . |
| 27 | In the Erz Gebirge mountain range spanning the Czech/East German border , a substantial acreage has been decimated by acidification , both from direct exposure to sulphur dioxide and from acid rain . |
| 28 | Exhibition space , stand design and trade support has been supplied by the county council to help smaller companies to trade in Europe . |
| 29 | Naturally curly hair has been styled by Tim at The Hair Collections , Cobham |
| 30 | ‘ Her hair has been admired by everybody who 's seen her . |