Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 2 | A dot is placed in the appropriate column opposite each criterion and the dots are joined up by a line . |
| 3 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 4 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 5 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 6 | The Government may be the paymaster , but the actual negotiations are carried out by a team of health authority representatives who might be industrial relations experts but usually are not . |
| 7 | While the majority are carried out by a person known to the victim , random attacks on strangers are on the increase . |
| 8 | This should not include VAT , as this is only payable when the repairs are carried out by a contractor/repairer who is VAT registered . |
| 9 | The defendant had produced a program called " Oscar " , a job scheduling program for controlling the order in which tasks are carried out by a computer . |
| 10 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 11 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 12 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 13 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 14 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 15 | The beautiful Thamesside setting of the Cottons Centre , where CCG run customer catering for Citibank , was put to the test this summer with an exclusive dinner for 15 chairmen and chief executives , who have been booked in by a public relations consultancy . |
| 16 | A survey of these structures on the line has been carried out by a firm of consulting engineers , showing that only one minor bridge requires any structural repairs . |
| 17 | A review of the constitutional position of the police and the ‘ arrangements for their control and administration ’ , had been carried out by a Royal Commission under the chairmanship of Sir Henry Willink whose final report had been published as early as May 1962 . |
| 18 | This work has been carried out by a small group of volunteers ( three to four persons ) . |
| 19 | The inquiry also heard that the actual tests had been carried out by a then 18-year-old trainee , who refused to give evidence at the hearings . |
| 20 | Many databases which use SQL provide a QBE interface so that inexperienced users can formulate queries quickly ( the data definition will usually have been carried out by a more experienced user using SQL and complex queries will also use SQL ) . |
| 21 | Detectives believe most of the UDA/UFF killings have been carried out by a unit from the Shankill district . |
| 22 | He said the raid had been carried out by a ‘ commando group armed with heavy weapons ’ which had attacked ‘ precise targets ’ . |
| 23 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 25 | It could be argued that such a system is valuable in all high risk operations : it provides reassurance not only for the surgical teams but also for patients who are operated on by a surgeon in whom seroconversion subsequently occurs . |
| 26 | The reputation of this division has been built up by a dedicated management team , many of which have been involved in contractual cleaning operations as well as in-house posts . |
| 27 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 28 | The new conventional wisdom which divides the young old from the old old at 75 marks a boundary for entry into the last stage of life which has now been pushed back by a dozen years . |
| 29 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 30 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |