Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 2 | 1.16 Much has been written on ‘ English across the curriculum ’ , a phrase which , for some , conjures up an unacceptable vision of English reduced to a service subject , and for others an equally unacceptable vision of subject specialists burdened with responsibilities that should rightly be carried by teachers of English . |
| 3 | In the first place , as knowledge of the syntax , phonology and semantics of various languages has increased , it has become clear that there are specific phenomena that can only naturally be described by recourse to contextual concepts . |
| 4 | The biggest savings will obviously be made by people who use most water now , either by being wasteful , by having several people in the household , and/or by using appliances like dishwashers . |
| 5 | The Soviet Union 's representative at the UN , Yuli Vorontsev , became Russia 's representative on Dec. 24 , after delivering a letter from Yeltsin to the Secretary-General informing UN members that the Soviet Union would henceforth be represented by Russia . |
| 6 | The Commissariat will henceforth be administered by Mr Simmons , and Mr Rayne will take up his duties at the ramparts ; his bearers , however , will remain to assist in the Commissariat . |
| 7 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |
| 8 | If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built . |
| 9 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 10 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 11 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , experience is the best guide to fabric interpretation , and this can only be obtained by study of many different sediment types . |
| 13 | Conclusive evidence for the occurrence of arrested larval development can only be obtained by examination of the worm population in the host . |
| 14 | for him to determine as a preliminary issue whether the county court had jurisdiction to deal with the matter , or whether , as the council claim , the question whether they had discharged their statutory duty under section 69 could only be raised by way of proceedings for judicial review in the High Court . |
| 15 | But suppose now we require that adequate grammatical descriptions include specifications of the meaning of every word in a language , and such a requirement has normally been assumed , then we find words whose meaning-specifications can only be given by reference to contexts of usage . |
| 16 | Remember that cases which have apparently recovered , can remain as carriers for a considerable time and can only be detected by laboratory isolation from nasal swabs . |
| 17 | We hope each hydra might escape detection during the period while it grows to maturity — or only be detected by riff-raff , whom no-one in power will heed . |
| 18 | Influence is the process by which one person in an organisation , A , directs or modifies the behaviour or attitudes of another person , B. Influence can only be exerted by A on B if A has some kind of power from which the influence emanates . |
| 19 | The conclusion to be derived from the above is that the overdevelopment of the bureaucracy in the post-colonial state can only be explained by reference to factors which render other political institutions impotent . |
| 20 | The overall effect is visually complicated and inelegant , and could only be explained by recourse to arcane ritual references , which at this distance of time we have little hope of tracing . |
| 21 | Whether a particular exercise of discretion is within the scope intended by the legislation can only be determined by consideration of purpose and relevancy , and this interpretive process is masked by usage of the omnibus phrase illegality . |
| 22 | But the consequences in law of the agreement , once concluded , can only be determined by consideration of the effect of the agreement . |
| 23 | Roman remains , including tesserae have also been found in Chedworth village ( c. 140 yds south of the ‘ villa ’ ) , but whether these sites were associated with the temple could only be determined by excavation . |
| 24 | The ARC/INFO programmer 's guide ( Aronson 1985 ) give some clues as to what to expect , but the actual file structure can only be determined by inspection . |
| 25 | The reasons could perhaps only be determined by interview , as supervisor pressure may well be the factor operating here . |
| 26 | The reasons could perhaps only be determined by interview , as supervisor pressure may well be the factor operating here . |
| 27 | The correct pitch for any model can only be determined by experiment , which is why experienced contest flyers prefer to have too much negative and ‘ fly the pitch ’ on the way down . |
| 28 | Amendments to the ROLES.DAT file should only be performed by the LIFESPAN Manager and roles may only be assigned by users with project administrator privilege using option 7.2.2 — Update User . |
| 29 | Thus as was reaffirmed recently in Crago v Julian [ 1992 ] 1 WLR 373 CA leases for a term of less than three years , although they may be created orally , can only be assigned by deed . |
| 30 | Radicalism can only be maintained by separation from the world and yet , where this outer world is still of interest to the inner group , whether as object of study or object of practice , it must also be constantly admitted , a process which continually threatens either the faith of the practitioner or the rigour of the analyst . |