Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All pupils will be taught to swim by the age of 11 . |
| 2 | If Delius can be considered under-rated by the public at large , which I certainly believe he is , then Life 's Dance and the Piano concerto , as two of his lesser known works , have up until now , been almost completely ignored . |
| 3 | The committee was established to recommend a model of how the English language ( whether spoken or written ) works , which would form a basis for teacher training and professional discussion of English teaching ; to recommend how and how far this model should be made explicit to pupils ; and to recommend what pupils should be taught and be expected to understand by the ages of 7 , 11 and 16 . |
| 4 | Among the many reasons for this are , first , a belief that the spread of the secondary comprehensive school has led to a fall in standards or has failed to lead to the heralded improvement in quality ; and secondly , a raising of expectations , among politicians , parents , employers and young people , about what young people , in the light of growing youth unemployment , should be expected to achieve by the end of the period of compulsory education , especially in preparation for life , work and further/higher education . |
| 5 | Example 4:7 Side by side rent sharing SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule : ( a ) " rental income " means the aggregate of : ( i ) any yearly or other periodical sums payable under an occupational lease including sums payable by virtue of any enactment ; ( ii ) any sums payable by way of interest under an occupational lease ; ( iii ) any sums payable by way of damages or compensation for any breach of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease ; ( iv ) any sum payable by a guarantor of a tenant 's obligation under an occupational lease pursuant to his guarantee ; ( v ) any premium paid or other capital payment made by a tenant under an occupational lease in connection with the grant assignment variation or surrender of an occupational lease ; ( vi ) any sum payable under a policy of insurance in respect of loss of rent or other income ( b ) " permitted deductions " means the aggregate of : ( i ) expenses reasonably incurred by the tenant in order to comply with its obligations as landlord under an occupational lease ; ( ii ) legal costs incurred by the tenant in enforcing obligations under occupational leases except to the extent that the tenant recovers those costs from a party to an occupational lease ; ( iii ) the amount of any compensation or damages which the tenant is liable by statute or ordered to pay to any party to an occupational lease whether for non-renewal of a tenancy breach of covenant breach of obligation compensation for improvements or otherwise ; ( iv ) the cost of management and rent collection not exceeding … per cent of rental income ( c ) " notional rental income " means the rack rental value of any lettable unit which is either unlet or vacant or occupied by the tenant or by a group company the value to be determined as at the date on which the unit in question ceased to be let or occupied or as the case may be become occupied by the tenant or a group company and redetermined every year ( d ) " lettable unit " means a part of the property which is designed constructed or adapted for letting to an occupying retail trader ( e ) " occupational lease " means a lease under which physical possession of a lettable unit was granted by the tenant ( f ) " rack rental value " of any lettable unit at any time means the rent at which that unit might reasonably be expected to be let in the open market for a term of not less than ten years with an upwards only rent review on every fifth anniversary of the beginning of the term and on such other terms as would be expected to be negotiated in the open market ( including such financial inducements and concessions as are usual in the market at that time ) ( g ) " group company " means a company which would be treated as a member of the same group of companies as the tenant for the purposes of the Landlord and Tenant Act 1954 ( h ) " divisible income " means the difference between : ( i ) rental income plus notional rental income ; and ( ii ) permitted deductions but divisible income shall never be less than nil ( i ) " the first slice " means such part of divisible income as does not exceed £ ( j ) " the second slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ but does not exceed £ ( k ) " the top slice " means such part of divisible income as exceeds £ ( 2 ) The rent payable by the tenant is the aggregate of : ( a ) … per cent of the first slice ; ( b ) … per cent of the second slice ; and ( c ) … per cent of the top slice to be paid by equal quarterly payments on the usual quarter days |
| 6 | Twenty years ago the Watergate crisis proved that even the most powerful man in the world could be brought to account by the people and their representatives in the Press and courts . |
| 7 | She sits down in a quiet room , provided at public expense , and begins to lecture a man who is shortly to be found dying by the dustbins . |
| 8 | But on day-to-day issues or on detailed matters where the minister would not be authorized to intervene by the relevant act , however much he might discuss these points on an informal basis and influence the actions of the board , Parliament can do nothing . |
| 9 | He hastily ordered large amounts of red ochre to be brought from Elephantine and to be ground to powder by the High Priest of Heliopolis and stirred into seven thousand jugs of beer . |
| 10 | A LIFESPAN user name should be specified followed by the user name which is to be used in the relational database i.e. the mapped ‘ user name ’ . |
| 11 | However , under a series of major constitutional amendments introduced in April 1991 , all " senior parliamentarians " would be forced to retire by the end of the year [ see p. 38146 ] . |
| 12 | Lying idle in impregnable harbours , the German fleet could not be enticed to battle by the British , while on land the trench line — now being hastily dug and fortified ran without interruption along the entire battlefront . |
| 13 | Premises might be allowed to deteriorate by the proposed assignee . |
| 14 | This means that the process of totalization must be kept moving by the critical investigation itself on which it comes to depend but which by the same token it can never subsume . |
| 15 | There must always be good communications and liaison between the reception office and housekeeping department , because in order to sell accommodation efficiently the receptionist must be kept informed by the housekeeping department of the exact status of all rooms at all times . |
| 16 | For a minimum annual subscription of £5 anyone can become a member of St Theresa 's Hospice and be kept informed by the quarterly newsletter . |
| 17 | Once the feeling arises that a strict law and order has to be maintained defined by the Government , deviant and oppositional groups become no longer worthy of fair trial and due procedures of justice . |
| 18 | Yet a disgruntled secretary , or one left unemployed by dismissal or the death or recall of his master , might easily be tempted to profit by the information he had acquired in his work . |
| 19 | At dusk you will be warned to leave by the ringing of a handbell around the tombstones . |
| 20 | 7.2 Should you use any personnel to execute work on our premises they shall be required to abide by the safety rules and other relevant regulations laid down by us from time to time . |