Example sentences of "[noun] be [vb pp] by [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | IN the freezer at Tesco , 4lb packs of frozen petit pois are reduced by 80p to £1.69 and 2lb packs of frozen pommes noisettes are 65p , from £1.15 . |
| 2 | The author seems more at home with that part of the study in which behavioural activities are interpreted by reference to models . |
| 3 | These forms are returned by mail to the Registration Officer for the Constituency . |
| 4 | Similarly , where rules are incorporated by reference to some other document , there should be adequate reference to draw them to members ' attention . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Palaces are designed by architects to be looked at rather than lived in . |
| 7 | A Fat Bloke who supports Man U informs us at length about some 5-year rule under which English Welshmen called Speed are deemed by UEFA to be Not Foreign , a rule which the management of Stuttgart Internazionale are strangely ignorant of . |
| 8 | Under the system , C-Series supercomputer servers are connected by FDDI to the HP 9000 Series 700 workstation clusters , running under Hewlett-Packard 's HP-UX or BSD Unix 4.3 . |
| 9 | Incomers do not understand why , when public attention turns to acres of unused or underused pasture or park , the needs of sheep or the needs of agriculture in the distant future are felt by Shetlanders to be greater than the incomers ' here-and-now needs for housing , shops or recreational facilities . |
| 10 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 11 | Viruses can also spread if computers are linked by modems to the outside world . |
| 12 | Concentrations were derived by reference to a standard curve ( Behring Diagnostics ) . |
| 13 | In part , these relationships were secured by appeal to the historical method . |
| 14 | Disaffected Cantarero supporters were considered by observers to be a danger to future constitutional order . |
| 15 | The following memorandum was presented by Vial , and read by the secretary : ‘ When the Members of the Veterinary College were occupied by objects to which I was in no wise competent I was absolutely silent — but now that it is a question to chuse [ sic ] a convenient situation for the establishment of the College , I think it a duty incumbent on me to give my advice on this important point . |
| 16 | The programme is prefaced by tributes to Arlott from Richie Benaud and Ian Botham , but is otherwise unchanged from the original , as reviewed in WCM Oct 1988 . |
| 17 | The problem here is that unless some attempt is made by sociolinguists to ‘ unpack ’ the pertinent variables for which social class stands proxy , progress in formulating a satisfying explanation of the relationships between linguistic and social structure is likely to be slow . |
| 18 | This practice is justified by reference to the fact that those permanent staff members performing notionally the same job take on a quasi-supervisory function during the peak period . |
| 19 | The valuation date will usually be the rent review date ; and the court will lean in favour of a construction which produces the result that the rent is valued by reference to values prevailing at the start of the period for which it is payable ( Glofield Properties v Morley ( No 2 ) [ 1989 ] 2 EGLR 118 ) . |
| 20 | The change of allegiance on the part of individual scientists from one paradigm to an incompatible alternative is likened by Kuhn to a ‘ gestalt switch ’ or a ‘ religious conversion ’ . |
| 21 | When the rabbit stock was reduced by myxomatosis to less than one per cent of what it had been , a number of warren systems inevitably became untenanted . |
| 22 | Other prelates were to repeat his experience before our period ended , but significantly in each case , as in his , the murder was occasioned by service to the crown and not by defence of the church . |
| 23 | One seat was lost by UUUC to an independent in Fermanagh and South Tyrone as a consequence of an arrangement by which the anti-Unionist vote was not split between SDLP and Unity . |
| 24 | The now complete wagon underframe was taken by traverser to the southern side of the New Body Shop , where its body was fitted in four stages . |
| 25 | The last is usually to be regretted but there have been occasions when long-standing marital unhappiness was resolved by admission to residential care in the last years . |
| 26 | This submission was supported by reference to various decisions of the court to the effect that it is a strict test . |
| 27 | ( 3 ) I remarked above that epistemic appearances are identified by reference to a thought from which we wisely refrain , a ‘ would-be ’ thought . |
| 28 | No less a masterwork though , as the military complexes of America and Russia are reduced by circumstances to mere personal bickering while the countdown to global destruction ( and a life of harem-shagging in coal mines for the ‘ lucky ’ survivors ) ticks relentlessly away . |
| 29 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 30 | In getting the bombs to where they can be used , air crews are helped by extensions to their senses — infra-red vision , light amplification and radar for night flight — all of which rely on electronics . |