Example sentences of "be [verb] by [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hours can be calculated by totalling all the man hours expended as a result of the false report , e.g. a false report is made by a driver , involved in a hit and run accident , that his car had been stolen and at the time of the accident it must have been driven by the thief and not himself . |
| 2 | Without a thesaurus , the records would need to be searched by naming all the metals individually , but without knowing which metals have actually been recorded in the records . |
| 3 | Significant improvements in efficiency would be obtained by upgrading all machines used for data input and data query . |
| 4 | This could be achieved by removing all " deadening and mechanical influences " thereby inducing " a hope that the movement [ centred upon the English Association ] would penetrate the homes of the future " . |
| 5 | The extent to which the first proposition is true could only be determined by interviewing all of the successful Ph D students , and all of their supervisors , and attempting to reconcile two , possibly conflicting , sets of answers . |
| 6 | It could be improved by including all the results of excavations since 1961 , but this has not been possible for various reasons , the most important of which is that it is no longer the intention to study the results of 367 , but to turn to another event recorded by Ammianus which can be illuminated by this old study and by more recent work . |
| 7 | ‘ A night out with John Minton , ’ Lehmann recorded in his diary in October 1951 , ‘ for which he arrived with a bunch of carnations in the wildest , gayest form , having been on a jag for three nights — and continued it that night in spite of my attempts at restraint ( which were spoiled by laughing all the time ) , flinging his arms about , shouting shrilly with highly risqué asseverations at the White Tower ( at which Tennessee [ Williams ] appeared for a hallucinatory moment ) , becoming embarrassingly affectionate and enthusiastic about me , and pouring money out for champagne in the Caribbean and another unidentified night club . ’ |
| 8 | Wordsworth 's achievement has also been devalued by attributing all his ideas to Coleridge . |
| 9 | A pooled estimate of the treatment difference was calculated by averaging all the treatment differences , weighting each by the inverse of the individual squared standard errors . |
| 10 | Because of the known heterogeneity of DNA aneuploidy in oesophageal carcinomas tumour blocks were analysed until DNA aneuploidy was detected in at least one block or was excluded by measuring all available tumour blocks in one patient . |
| 11 | This was confirmed by asking all patients with adenomas or carcinomas ( n=33 ) included in the prospective study for their drug history . |