Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] by an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 2 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 3 | Like Simpkin , Wood was let down by an erratic serve . |
| 4 | And er guys started to go down that to the twenty foot level where they were picked up by an inflatable off the standby boat . |
| 5 | Lieutenant Davis was caught ashore next night and his paddler , Able Seaman McGuire , was picked up by an armed fishing boat . |
| 6 | Four more S.79s were sent out from Sicily to search for it but one ran out of fuel and had to ditch , the crew being picked up by an Italian hospital ship . |
| 7 | Police fear the instrument may have been dumped and could be picked up by an unsuspecting member of the public . |
| 8 | It is high time the variable quality of international referees and the anomalies that abound in interpretation were sorted out by an International Board Survey . |
| 9 | Assessment , however , would be carried out by an external assessor who would look at testimonies from the line manager and company director , and a portfolio of documentary evidence and reports . |
| 10 | Pure tone audiometry was carried out by an audiological technician or scientist under sound proof conditions unless , according to age , free field audiometric assessment was required . |
| 11 | The initial research is generally a one-man job ; the production is often best carried out by an established firm . |
| 12 | For example , the assembly of a set of components will be carried out by an experienced operator without thinking about it . |
| 13 | On Nov. 24 , 1989 , the Sejm abolished the Office for Religious Affairs , its tasks to be carried out by an organizational cell headed by a general director within the Council of Ministers ' Office . |
| 14 | Recommendations arising from assessments carried out by an educational psychologist , or from medical records containing information from ophthalmological examination , or from an ophthalmic optician prescribing low vision aids , will need to be translated into practice in the day-to-day classroom situation , and specialist help from an advisory teacher is invaluable here . |
| 15 | Maintenance of information in verbal memory is based on sub-vocal rehearsal of material held in a fading phonological store and it has been suggested that maintenance of spatial information in memory over short periods is also carried out by an active control process based on a response system . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ It will be carried out by an independent group of midwives from outside the area . ’ |
| 17 | She had bought Martyr 's Cottage before his appointment as Director of the power station and he had moved in by an unspoken agreement that this was a temporary expedient while he decided what to do , keep on the Barbican flat as his main home or sell the flat and buy a house in Norwich and a smaller pied à terre in London . |
| 18 | Four Italian soldiers and a Frenchman acting as European Community peace monitors in Yugoslavia were killed when their helicopter was shot down by an air-to-air missile north-east of Zagreb . |
| 19 | On his way through the underground roads , he met a miner who told him of having seen heavy machinery being moved along by an unknown force . |
| 20 | Men who were turned on by a pretty face were turned off by an absolute show of disdain — and if double meanings were n't her strength , turning a cold shoulder was . |
| 21 | The Ambrose Orchestra played at the Mayfair Hotel until it was closed down by an unexploded bomb . |
| 22 | Tom Berenger 's ‘ Sgt Barnes ’ symbolised the brutalising effects of the war , but in this sequence Stone 's script was honest enough to show how unintended atrocity may be sparked off by an accidental chain of events . |
| 23 | But Regan wilfully distorts this into the implication that we can never say in advance that a given proposal has been drawn up by an incompetent researcher who does n't know what he is looking for … |
| 24 | As with all the best competitions the rules are entirely arbitrary and drawn up by an impartial judging commmittee consisting of the proprietor of this column and nobody else . |
| 25 | The proposal , drawn up by an advisory group of industrialists and academics known as the DTI 's aviation committee , was originally put to the department last November , but has only just been made public . |
| 26 | ‘ British Energy Policy and the Market for Coal ’ , drawn up by an all-party House of Commons select committee on trade and industry , includes a recommendation to the House of Commons that in determining a licensing policy for gas-fired generating capacity , priority should be given to the construction of power stations which use sour gas as the main fuel . |
| 27 | Local housing programmes drawn up by an intercommunal co-operation body and covering at least five years were to be established in the 13 cities with more than 350,000 inhabitants . |
| 28 | Although under-assessment was nowhere more flagrant than among rich Londoners , it was always possible for a fortune to be wiped out by an unsuccessful business venture , as in the case of Alderman Aylmer , draper , who was assessed at £40 net , his debts paid' , when others of this rank were normally worth a thousand or more . |
| 29 | Instead they are normally closed out by an offsetting sale or purchase beforehand . |
| 30 | He was called out by an offended patriot of the town , but killed his opponent in the consequent duel , one of the few duels that can ever have been fought for the sake of a marginal note in a book . |