Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors . |
| 2 | During the long night , the car would have been joined silently by another . |
| 3 | The domes are constructed on high drums but are hidden externally by steep conical , stone roofs . |
| 4 | Suppose that the current par yields on bonds that will mature in one , two and three years ' time are given respectively by 10,10.25 and 10.75 per cent . |
| 5 | This is always the case unless the purchase of equipment and other costs are undertaken privately by one or more members of the band . |
| 6 | The plaque was unadorned , the letters deeply carved in an elegant script reminiscent of Eric Gill , and Dalgliesh remembered his aunt telling him that it had been placed there by previous owners in the late twenties , when the cottage was originally extended . |
| 7 | The existence of powerless groups has been highlighted even by those who extol the virtues of the Japanese commitment to consensus . |
| 8 | Various derivatives of the BCG matrix have been developed both by other consultancy firms and by large companies such as Shell , but a description of just one of these will suffice . |
| 9 | A LASER-BASED technique that can produce extreme ultraviolet radiation hits been developed independently by two American research groups . |
| 10 | Support for Indian influence has been given also by certain Aboriginal elders and initiates with whom I have conversed , and my explorations in India into serpent worship have strongly indicated that the concept of the Rainbow Serpent could be a direct transposition from Indian serpent lore . |
| 11 | The section has been amended recently by new section 62A , which , by virtue of secondary legislation , makes clear that s.62 is intended , inter alia , to cover insider dealing . |
| 12 | While the proposal was known to have been received enthusiastically by some EC countries , including Portugal and Greece , others like France opposed a CSCM which would include the Middle East , preferring to limit it to the western Mediterranean . |
| 13 | Elected as President in 1987 amid controversy over his war record while serving in the German Army , Waldheim had not been received officially by any Western country , and the World Jewish Congress criticized Kohl for his " shocking lack of moral sensitivity " in breaching this de facto Western diplomatic boycott . |
| 14 | As a result , output has been revised upwards by 0.2 per cent in the first two quarters and 0.3 per cent in the third , and the trend throughout 1992 now looks even flatter than before . |
| 15 | Ray Parlour , having been caught heavily by former Gunner Kevin Richardson , did not return for the second half . |
| 16 | ARMY spy Brian Nelson has been interviewed again by top cop John Stevens , who headed an investigation into alleged collusion between members of the security forces and loyalist paramilitaries . |
| 17 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 18 | One theory police are working on is that the women fell victim to bandits from Mozambique which , until recently , had been torn apart by civil war . |
| 19 | For years , the region has been torn apart by armed conflicts . |
| 20 | India has been torn apart by religious strife after Hindus tore down a mosque in Northern India on Sunday . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , this was short-lived and it folded in 1884 having been torn asunder by internal dissensions , but before its collapse it inaugurated two important undertakings , the Stockton-on-Tees Mission and the Ayrshire Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 22 | Consortium banks are banks which are owned jointly by other financial institutions . |
| 23 | Young women may be reluctant to join long-established organizations which are patronized chiefly by older women , because they fear it will somehow drown their own up-to-date and dynamic image . |
| 24 | In recent years this ‘ hymn explosion ’ has been detonated more by new words than by new music . |
| 25 | These secondary substances would not ( not at first , anyway ) have had their own lineages of ancestry and descent , but would have been manufactured anew by each generation of primary replicators . |
| 26 | the social and economic disadvantages which are suffered particularly by black residents , especially young blacks . |
| 27 | Given the claims that many alternative therapies make for the treatment of ‘ incurable ’ conditions , many of which are suffered mainly by older people , it is perhaps time for those responsible for the care of older people to investigate the potential of such treatments as homoeopathy , acupuncture , chiropractic , osteopathy , herbalism and many others . |
| 28 | Four valves-per-cylinder are operated directly by double overhead camshafts which are driven by a toothed belt . |
| 29 | Some work had been done there by 1372 , but in 1375 inquiry was made into allegations that Lewyn had received money for the work but had failed to carry out the repairs . |
| 30 | There is , however , one notable exception to the general rule that conflicts of interest are regulated solely by civil law : where the abuse involves the misuse of inside information , known as insider trading or insider dealing . |