Example sentences of "it be [verb] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big question is — can it be given back by design ? |
| 2 | They may , for example , be an adjunct to the use of Taylorism , where fragmented work leads t o the use of particular types of organisation structure , whereas co-ordination of the same overall task , if it were carried out by craft workers on an integrated basis , might be carried out by means of a much simpler organisation structure . |
| 3 | The third earl designed this house himself with a view to it being lived in by his eldest son and subsequent heirs . |
| 4 | The car had been parked outside their home for only a few minutes before neighbours saw it being driven off by teenage youths . |
| 5 | The best way to " lock up " the caesium , to prevent it being taken up by plants and into the food chain , is by spreading the affected areas with certain minerals , most successfully ammonium ferric hexacyanoferrate , or Prussian blue , which turns the hills blue . |
| 6 | It 's hanging on by a thread |
| 7 | It 's brought on by exercise and excitement . ’ |
| 8 | It 's brought on by repetitive typing on a computer or word processor keyboard . |
| 9 | It 's brought about by confusing situations , conflicts and problems . |
| 10 | Asthma kills two thousand people a year , but the new research shows that the gene which can cause it is only active when it 's passed on by the mother . |
| 11 | Well , if you sent your money fairly recently , it 's probably still sitting in their offices unopened — Turbosoft still hold the lease on the building , and until it 's taken over by another company the GPO have no authority to recover and redirect mail . |
| 12 | It 'll close with the loss of at least a hundred jobs if it 's taken over by the Suffolk-based brewer Greene King . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's parked down by your van . |
| 14 | Aimed at the dedicated games player with crisp graphics and rapid scaling , it 's let down by short battery life . |
| 15 | Erm , and then I just thought I 'd finally conclude a bright , cos I think it , it 's like how I see myself at work , erm with showing you where our work comes from erm and basically you 've got all these arrows coming in and er sometimes you do have a sense of feeling quite bombarded with requests for work , but the main , I mean the main formal source of our work is the local government sub committee , which is erm , like Mary was referring to earlier , every department or unit in our in the Council have to formally report and get it 's work through by a Council committee , our committee is the local government sub committee and it formally sets our work programme once a year , and I our priorities , it also comes up with other things it would like us to do by the way , during the course of the year , so erm , that includes Mary as well . . |
| 16 | But since we installed the system , it 's dropped off by about three per cent . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes ; it 's coming in by Copers Bakery . |
| 18 | In nature it 's backed up by waterproof animal oils — Nikwax use TX10i . |
| 19 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 20 | As irritable as ever ( Mark Smith 's only comment was to compare the trendy utilitarian decor of The Waterfront to that of an open prison ) , The Fall 's lip cuts more ice when it 's backed up by more than just Smith 's mouthings . |
| 21 | But a personal reassurance from me will not be acceptable unless it 's backed up by a member of the Swift family . ’ |
| 22 | But in the Arctic , summer is just past its peak , with the pack ice as far north as it is likely to be , although in a month the first skin of new ice will tinkle and shimmer as it is broken up by the morning breeze . |
| 23 | Whether the words are printed , typed or handwritten ; whether they appear on a screen or on different types and qualities of paper ; whether a ‘ text ’ occurs as a separate item , as part of an academic journal , or in a book or an encyclopaedia ; how the page is laid out , the extent to which it is broken up by illustrations , headings , and the use of different typefaces . |
| 24 | In others , such as the strongyloids , it is large , and opens into a buccal capsule , which may contain teeth ; such parasites , when feeding , draw a plug of mucosa into the buccal capsule ( Fig.3 ) , where it is broken down by the action of enzymes which are secreted into the capsule from adjacent glands . |
| 25 | Then begins the arduous task of checking the weight of each sack before it is sewn up by hand to eliminate cheating — and there is no chance of chucking out the odd lump or two en route ! |
| 26 | The connection between poststructuralist conviction and political radicalism is both arbitrary and tenuous , but it is insisted on by some contemporary theorists , with their readiness to invoke analogies between cultural processes , however disparate . |
| 27 | It is made up by adding together the profiles corresponding to bullets which have gone through slit I and bullets which have gone through slit 2 : |
| 28 | However , the contractual commitment stems from the first of those calls on the basis that it is followed up by the time agreed . |
| 29 | It is built in by design . |
| 30 | A minor road skirts its western base but a direct climb from it is ruled out by unremitting steepness and a barrier of rocky buttresses , the ascent usually being made over gentler ground from the north . |