Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A horse 's more or less inherited position in the herd can be altered by unusual conditions . |
| 2 | You then whip the cream ( it is easier if you have left it an hour or two in the refrigerator after cooling ) and when it stands in peaks you can turn it in to the muslin or clean napkin with which you have lined an earthenware or metal cheese mould or drainer — which can be improvised by piercing holes in a cheap cake tin or in a tub-shaped carton — and leave it 3 or 4 hours , or overnight . |
| 3 | Scratches , cleavage shattering and other features of mechanical damage in crystals luminesce brightly and can be recognized by experienced observers . |
| 4 | William Wordsworth described the river Duddon as something which would always be recognized by succeeding generations : |
| 5 | The presence of virus could be recognized by microscopic changes in the infected cells , and means of assay were devised to detect the presence , and preferably the amount , of virus present . |
| 6 | Conversely , emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause , as was the case with the victim of the instant coffee , and this is even less likely to be recognized by orthodox practitioners . |
| 7 | Recent work has shown that the types of deposit produced by different kinds of eruption can be recognized by objective criteria such as the total volume of material erupted , the distance that it travels from the vent , the degree of fragmentation , and the range of particle sizes present at any point . |
| 8 | That autumn the EC and UN mediators drafted a peace plan for Bosnia & Hercegovina , to be policed by 60,000–75,000 peacekeepers . |
| 9 | Even the provisions of the formal document , the United States Constitution , may be amended by judicial decisions and custom usage . |
| 10 | But so long as the three conditions expressed in the speech of my noble and learned friend are understood and observed , I do not , for my part , consider that the relaxation of the rule which he has proposed will lead to any significant increase in the cost of litigation or in the burden of research required to be undertaken by legal advisers . |
| 11 | These steps into new territory were too big and too risky to be undertaken by individual merchants . |
| 12 | Some areas of branch work could best be undertaken by Working Groups or Sub Committees . |
| 13 | ( viii ) Finally , the terms under which economic development can be undertaken by new States have been radically changed , so that today the programme of economic liberation has become separated from that of political freedom . |
| 14 | The meeting had originally proposed the development of such strategies for the weakest EC economies ( i.e. Greece , Italy and Portugal ) but several ministers argued that they should be undertaken by all members . |
| 15 | I suggest that , for the next meeting of the North West London Dermatology Audit Group , local general practitioners and general practice audit facilitators should be invited to attend and a joint audit on the quality and appropriateness of outpatient service should be undertaken by all parties . |
| 16 | The walk to be described may most conveniently be undertaken by two parties , each with transport : one car should be parked at the roadside quarry at Aisgill , and the other at Birkdale Summit . |
| 17 | It is important that the day to day running of the proposed systems can be undertaken by non-technical personnel . |
| 18 | The design , costing , supervision and execution of a project may be undertaken by different individuals within the organisation but by informal agreement , not legally based demarcation . |
| 19 | A greater degree of interaction between the statutory and voluntary agencies could foster mutual education and understanding , and initiatives need to be undertaken by both sides . |
| 20 | Once out of Kathmandu we started getting long stares from villagers , laying out spring wheat on the road to be threshed by passing cars and carts . |
| 21 | The French bank is the latest in a string of financial advisers to be sacked by British groups after backing hostile takeover bids . |
| 22 | Moreover , the undoubted problems of the British economy need to be explained by other factors ranging from obsolete management and union practices within British industry to the complex influences of patterns of world trade and rising oil prices . |
| 23 | This ‘ determined hostility of the Socialist Party generally and of the Trade Union movement in particular ’ which Leo Amery later described as a ‘ curious feature ’ ( Amery , 1955 , p. 206 ) of the movement for family allowances can perhaps be explained by two factors . |
| 24 | Hydrochlorothiazide 's ineffectiveness in reducing microalbuminuria could be explained by two possibilities . |
| 25 | Greater attention will be given to the nature of the long- run solution of the models , and the degree to which inter-model differences in the long run and in dynamic adjustment can be explained by empirical differences in economic approach . |
| 26 | I do not want to get involved in the technicalities of such arguments but , for good or ill , the anthropomorphic style of sociobiological interpretation , together with its exaggerated insistence that virtually all patterns of animal behaviour ( including those found in man ) can be explained by evolutionary hypotheses , has lately served to reinforce and extend Darwin 's original Epicurean thesis that the difference between man and other animals is simply one of degree , that there is no natural discontinuity . |
| 27 | Some of the wilder fluctuations can be explained by changing patterns of party contestation . |
| 28 | In terms of plate tectonics it is easy to see how regressions can be explained by continental collisions , mountain building and the resultant displacement of water ( figure 8.2 ) . |
| 29 | For social reasons , both the degree of concentration of certain acknowledged problems and the extent to which they can be explained by internal processes of self-generation rather externally imposed processes may be grossly exaggerated . |
| 30 | This is the position known as materialism ; it is opposed to idealism which , in a broad sense , sees the basis of human existence as abstract spiritual concepts whose origin can not be explained by natural circumstances . |