Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women suffer a dual burden of work inside and outside the home and the strains experienced by working mothers have not been eased by offers of help either from male partners or the wider community and the state . |
| 2 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime . |
| 3 | He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime . |
| 4 | The Smith family are everywhere , of course , so it is no surprise that over the years more Smiths have been dismissed by Smiths in Test cricket than any other self-destructing name . |
| 5 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 6 | The site has already been examined by planners from Stroud District Council , one of the most environmentally conscious authorities in the country . |
| 7 | They have been examined by experts in many different parts of the world . |
| 8 | Wear on square-headed brooches has been examined by Leigh as a means of understanding how they were used to fasten clothing ( 1980 , p. 487ff. ; 1985 ) . |
| 9 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 10 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 11 | These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses . |
| 12 | Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group . |
| 13 | Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate . |
| 14 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 15 | My ‘ dream-girl ’ was still there , but had now been joined by members of her family . |
| 16 | Furthermore they had been joined by universities in commercial and industrial cities , beginning with London , and including Manchester , Birmingham , Leeds , Liverpool , Newcastle and Bristol . |
| 17 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 18 | And God have split from their former record label Beggars Banquet in protest at the poor quality level of the new Charlatans LP and appear to have been joined by Neil from LOOP , who 's playing second bass for them . |
| 19 | But now the charges against Koons of dubious taste have been joined by accusations of sensationalism and obscenity . |
| 20 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 21 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 22 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 23 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |
| 24 | In a nation where rank is everything , and everything is ranked , these ‘ yuppiewhites ’ are placed by Japanese at the top of the gaijin pecking order . |
| 25 | About 1,000 Czechoslovaks gathered to watch and applaud the departure , which had been delayed by crowds of would-be emigrants in East Germany who had jammed railway stations in the hope of hitching rides as the trains passed through . |
| 26 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 27 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 28 | The other semi-final has been delayed by difficulties in arranging the quarter-final between Charles Outred and K MacDonald of Stornoway . |
| 29 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 30 | Many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards . |