Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 2 | This project was the first to be overseen by the new Clerk to the Governors , Mr. T. R. Ellis , an Old Stopfordian who had been appointed when the previous Clerk retired in 1942 . |
| 3 | The reform of the legal system ( 1864 ) was explicitly modelled on advanced western practice , and laid down that the law was to be overseen by an independent judiciary . |
| 4 | A new electoral law , passed by the National Assembly on April 18 , 1989 , and signed by Ortega on April 22 , provided for elections to be overseen by a new Supreme Electoral Council comprising five members elected by the National Assembly from among candidates proposed by the President , including two from opposition parties . |
| 5 | In 1973 the Fair Trading Act brought these together within the purview of a single body , the newly created Office of Fair Trading , to be overseen by a civil servant , the Director General of Fair Trading . |
| 6 | And tomorrow night we 'll be hearing reactions to the possibility of VAT being added to books and newspapers , another area thought likely to be targetted by the Chancellor . |
| 7 | ‘ I expect you to be gone by the time I get back . ’ |
| 8 | Sometimes they are supposed to be said by characters in the illustrations , but there is nothing to indicate who is speaking . |
| 9 | Lawyers will not be able to take an American-style slice of the damages if successful , but they will be able to ask for an extra percentage on top of their normal costs , with a maximum to be fixed by the Lord Chancellor . |
| 10 | Opposition groups are preparing to take on the Communist Party in Bulgaria 's first free elections for more than 40 years which are to be fixed by next May , but dissident leaders have called for a postponement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A licensing board has to hold quarterly meetings in January , March , June and October each year , the precise date to be fixed by the board at least eight weeks before the meeting . |
| 15 | Undoubtedly , if two persons enter into an arrangement for the sale of any particular property , and try to settle the terms , but can not agree , and after dispute and discussion respecting the price , they say , " We will refer this question of price to AB , he shall settle it " , and thereupon they agree that the matter shall be referred to his arbitration , that would appear to be an " arbitration " , in the proper sense of the term … ; but if they agree to a price to be fixed by another , that does not appear to me to be an arbitration . |
| 16 | 9 – ( 1 ) Where there is an agreement to sell goods on the terms that the price is to be fixed by the valuation of a third party , and he can not or does not make the valuation , the agreement is avoided ; but if the goods or any part of them have been delivered to and appropriated by the buyer he must pay a reasonable price for them . |
| 17 | It it has to be fixed by either us or the national party . |
| 18 | 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 … |
| 19 | Mr Lawrie said the recommendation that he should pay a sum to the council to be fixed by the Scottish Secretary is unreasonable . |
| 20 | Literary theory , he says , should not just be one more academic subject , to be taught by a ‘ theory-specialist ’ , but should inform the way in which an English Department organizes itself . |
| 21 | This basically is how oracy grows : it is to be taught by the creation of many and varied circumstances to which both speech and listening are the natural responses . ’ |
| 22 | Diet used to be taught by personal interview and printed diet sheet . |
| 23 | These exercises need to be taught by a continence adviser , a community nurse or physiotherapist . |
| 24 | Just go and allow yourself to be taught by the site . |
| 25 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | There is too much archaeology to be contained in any undergraduate degree or to be taught by any group of teachers . |
| 29 | But he was old and tired ; he 's had youngsters falling over themselves to be taught by him . |
| 30 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |