Example sentences of "[noun sg] be [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The prime question is whether the gains in efficiency from having a more competitive financial system that involves a degree of consumer protection are outweighed by the costs of setting up and maintaining that regulatory system . |
| 2 | Broadly speaking , the courts have taken the view that the bounds of parliamentary privilege are fixed by the common law which they have the right to declare . |
| 3 | Measures and sacrifices which the bourgeois-liberal mind contemplates with horror are vindicated by the country 's transformed position in the world and the protection afforded future generations against similar tragedies : in the scheme of history , timely , resolute action has been the greatest kindness . |
| 4 | For example , in the Amerindian language Cubeo , the main protagonists and their actions in a story are tagged by a particle in such a systematic way that a concise and accurate precis is obtained if just those sentences containing the particle are extracted ( see Longacre , 1976a for many such cases in this and other Amerindian languages ; and Anderson & Keenan , in press , re the so-called fourth person category in Algonquian languages , really a discourse-deictic category ) . |
| 5 | Letters of admission are issued by the Committee . |
| 6 | But remember that not all the errors in one category are caused by the same underlying problem . |
| 7 | In too few cases has the reduction been accompanied by an admission that the new base will be more sustainable in future . |
| 8 | Minority shareholdings of [ ] % in ABC GmbH and [ ] % of ABC Corp are held by the local managers . |
| 9 | Elsewhere I argue that transactions among the Buid are dominated by a principle not recognized by Polanyi , and that Sahlins ' reduction of Polanyi 's three categories to a single continuum is even more misleading . |
| 10 | Each Gospel begins with a richly ornamented page in which the opening words of the text are submerged by the decoration . |
| 11 | And in An Ideal Husband ( Globe Theatre ) their marriage and his livelihood are threatened by the appearance of the Cruella de Ville-like Mrs Cheveley who has blackmail and greed on her mind . |
| 12 | In addition , attempts to interpret rural social change are hampered by the myths surrounding rural life , especially those that portray all rural communities as settings in which mutual aid and harmony of interests abound . |
| 13 | Miscommunication is widespread between peasants and outsiders , whether developers or government officials , and the research will focus on how processes of change are interpreted by the parties concerned . |
| 14 | Appointments to the Court of Appeal , to the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , and to the offices of Lord Chief Justice and President of the Family Division are made by the Prime Minister after consultation with the Lord Chancellor , who himself consults with senior members of the judiciary before making his choice or consulting with the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | Taking the above example , the effect of ( a ) would be to increase the £13,000 transfer value to £16,000 ( assuming pensions in payment are increased by the maximum of 5 per cent a year ) ; while the effect of ( b ) would be to increase the transfer value to £22,000 ( assuming male and female pension age , are equalised at age 60 with full retrospection of benefits ) . |
| 16 | The size and complexity of that framework are dictated by the interplay of national policies on education , local authority implementations , HMI monitorings , whole school policies , practices in evaluation and individual teacher input . |
| 17 | Grants specifically for heritage are provided by the small Historic Monuments and Site Fund run by DGX . |
| 18 | Explanations of the contrast are framed by the tradition of group loyalty and consensus formation . |
| 19 | JOE HARRIOTT Memories of the great altoist are evoked by a quintet featuring three members of his band : trumpeter Shake Keane , bassist Coleridge Goode , and drummer Bobby Orr . |
| 20 | The sale of a majority interest but not an outright sale is not a favoured path unless clear strategic reasons to favour this route are demonstrated by the potential purchaser . |
| 21 | They receive grants from the government and the majority are overseen by the National Advisory Board for Local Authority Higher Education . |
| 22 | Marketing any new product is fraught with dangers — the vast majority are defeated by a lack of consumer awareness . |
| 23 | The majority are deterred by the garden 's high altitude and exposure to winds , whilst ladybirds or resident blue tits feeding their young devour the remainder . |
| 24 | The attempt to demonstrate how a close linguistic analysis can explain a text 's meaning and effect only partially succeeds in this case , since the thoroughness and precision of the description are undermined by a failure to discriminate between features of different significance within the poem , and by a general neglect of the socio-cultural context in which the text is embedded . |
| 25 | Two years ago , such farms were told to be self-sustaining , self- financing , many state subsidies were withdrawn , yet here today they 're still working to a central plan which dictates how much they produce and how much they 're paid for it , so decades of mismanagement are compounded by a lack of funds . |
| 26 | I know it could be something to do with regime er banks of course are supervised by the Bank of England at the moment and er the financial services er regime is supervised by the S I B and it could be that is the reason why it is not explicitly stated er that the accountant has to be acting in his capacity as erm as auditor . |
| 27 | All these qualities provided by the academic course are valued by the gate-keepers of the foreign language-teaching profession — PGCE tutors , advisers to L.E.A.s headteachers — but especially in recent times the degree of spoken language fluency is stressed . |
| 28 | At the same time the rural interest had for the most part been neglected by the political powers-that-be . |
| 29 | But both Dr Kohl and Mr Modrow , aware that the hopes of many for reunification are growing by the day , and more quickly than the politicians can accommodate , tried to cool expectations . |
| 30 | Ministerial contacts of this kind are supplemented by the activities of the junior Ministers , the Parliamentary Private Secretaries , and the Government Whips . |