Example sentences of "to be [verb] by [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
2 | Hamilton argued that , because selection is stronger on earlier ages , alleles with advantageous effects early in life would be more likely to be fixed by selection than those with a later age of action , an argument that implies that populations are continually adapting , and so are not in equilibrium . |
3 | But the statutory formula does not seek to value the benefit to the employee as such , but requires the quantum of the benefit to be fixed by reference to the cost to the employer in providing it . |
4 | Even if a moderately large number ( N ) of individuals is used , mutations are likely to be fixed by chance if they reduce fitness by less than s1/N . |
5 | The fee for John Byrne has n't been disclosed … and the fee for goalkeeper Phil Whitehead who 's been on loan at the Manor for the past month will have to be fixed by tribunal … |
6 | The description of the course ‘ Bodies of Experience ’ to be taught by Mark Cousins on Fridays at 10.30 in the Lecture Hall of the Architectural Association , London , during this autumn term |
7 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
8 | He took the part with manifest reluctance ; he did not want to be recognized by Ghorbanifar . |
9 | Ward ( 1979 ) noted with alarm the signs of what he called ‘ Frontier man 's fright ’ whereby after working in an area for some time without apparent response from professional colleagues in related disciplines there is a tendency to desert it just as its true worth is to be recognized by others : |
10 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
11 | Cadmium is a very volatile metal that has to be prepared by distillation ; as this was not achieved until 1818 , solders containing cadmium can not be ancient . |
12 | The agreed price of the three acres of land was £180 and a proper conveyance was to be prepared by Theed Pearse the solicitor , who was also owner of the adjoining land on which the County Hospital was to be built nearly a century later . |
13 | St Pancras typifies on the grandest scale the tendency for big city stations to be fronted by hotels . |
14 | The need to store and maintain specialised equipment in good condition is a problem that has to be faced by schools accepting pupils who need to use these in order to fulfil their special educational needs . |
15 | Had all four defendants committed the brutal crimes , or had just two of the brother perpetrated these heinous events , later to be joined by William who had done his best to abet them after the event ? |
16 | The Michael Stoute-trained colt , who will retire to stud at the end of the season , is likely to be joined by Dick Hern 's improving colt Gold Seam in the seven-furlong event . |
17 | Now it 's important that we come up with some interesting things because , as you know , as the course goes on we 're going to be joined by professionals from the media , in the form of Bob Satchwell later on this afternoon , and other gentlemen from the local radio and so forth tomorrow , and they 're actually going to , as it were , confirm , or not , as the case may be , the sort of things we 've been talking about . |
18 | The secret consistory decided to send Guido , cardinal bishop of Preneste , who was to be joined by Octavian , cardinal bishop of Ostia ( described as " holding the first place in the Roman Church after us " ) , at present acting as legate in France , and the pope 's own emissary , Master Philip the notary , to be present at a council to decide the imperial succession . |
19 | Baberton Crescent is in the process of inaugurating a scheme and hope to be joined by Foulis Crescent . |
20 | Baberton Crescent is in the process of inaugurating a scheme and hope to be joined by Foulis Crescent . |
21 | Miles and Martin are likely to be joined by Grandmaster Ian Rogers of Australia , who holds a clear advantage in his adjourned game against Martin . |
22 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
23 | During the seven-year period 1642 to 1649 , parliament also designated the last Wednesday of each month as a solemn day of ‘ fasting and humiliation ’ , which was to be observed by abstinence from food and drink and attendance at a day-long round of religious exercises aimed at producing both personal and national reformation . |
24 | Where invert levels are not suitable for the site to be drained by gravity , the additional cost of a rising main and pumps will need to be quantified . |
25 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
26 | Engles stresses another point also later to be emphasized by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard in African Political Systems . |
27 | There are four in particular that have significant educational implications : ( 1 ) the emphasis on individualisation , ( 2 ) the encouragement of the ‘ exercise ’ disposition or mode of behaviour , ( 3 ) the widening of activities to be embraced by drama , and ( 4 ) the importance of intuition , which I shall discuss under the section heading ‘ Dorothy Heathcote ’ . |
28 | The degree of reflation ‘ required ’ will therefore tend to be overestimated by governments in a synchronized upswing , if they rely on past experience derived from periods of less international synchronization of business cycles . |
29 | The ayatollah had to be flown by helicopter to his chosen head quarters-symbolically , a school in the poor part of South Teheran , far from the villas and the palaces of the northern sector , which had till now dominated the lives of the masses . |
30 | Apart from such feudal anomalies most people in the South — the urban poor and the peasants in the countryside — appear hardly to be touched by taxes . |