Example sentences of "[conj] [vb base] [be] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fyodor Kuzmin , the commander of the Baltic Military District , ordered Lithuanian deserters from the Red Army to return to their units within four days or face being returned by force . |
| 2 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 3 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 4 | It is difficult to know what of the next few seconds I remember , or have pieced together , or have been told by Nathan . |
| 5 | We have only looked , in this chapter , at a small subset of the parameter values that have been examined by researchers in recent years . |
| 6 | For this reason it is important to use the best models and computer codes that have been validated by experiments such as those carried out in the loss of fluid test ( LOFT ) facility in Idaho ( New Scientist , vol 93 p 521 ) . |
| 7 | This Fact Sheet will be followed by a series of Briefing Papers for MPs , which will go beyond the facts to a description of the types of arguments that have been employed by researchers to study the causes of unemployment , including the possible effects so far as they are known of various remedies that have been proposed . |
| 8 | So Miss 's point is very appropriate to bring a report back to a future committee in the near future , er , that covers the queries that have been raised by members , and the Government 's new policies or new proposals , I will take instructions from the Chief Executive on that , and will , er subject to the Chief Executive 's review , also cover matters such as structure plan , and the co-ordination of this er , within , within the local authority . |
| 9 | Er taking some of the points that have been raised by Mr Steel . |
| 10 | Interbedded with these are glacier-derived muds containing the skeletons of small pelagic organisms , and mounds of sediments that have been accumulated by currents flowing along the continental slope . |
| 11 | Of the many curves that have been explored by mathematicians , the roulettes are formed by a curve rolling along another , fixed curve and are fundamental to mechanics . |
| 12 | The reason is that it is based , not on discernible facts , but on stories and writings that have been created by man himself in an era of his history obtaining long before he had learned that , if he were so minded , he could use his intellectual power to establish facts on which to build the structure , not only of his religion , but of the whole of his society . |
| 13 | Does he agree that that is in stark contrast to the contributions that have been made by Opposition Members , who have nothing to offer the NHS but smears and attacks on staff and patients , and on the care that patients receive ? |
| 14 | What we have tried to show here is that in this respect linguistic behaviour conforms to the same principles as the other patterns of social behaviour that have been studied by anthropologists . |
| 15 | They have the sort of qualities that have been recognised by gardeners since the beginning of the Victorian era — a good show should never be despised . |
| 16 | Rather than only training women to take on roles that have been shaped by men over the centuries , would it not be far more interesting , more expansive , to look into the questions of priestesshood , to find out what mystery it is that women can touch on , and how they can communicate it to the human world ? |
| 17 | Trees in burial grounds , near tanks , at points where roads cross and in close proximity to anthills and ponds are carefully avoided , as are trees that have been eaten by worms or struck by lightning or are barren , old and worn out . |
| 18 | Central to his strategy was impoundment , a procedure whereby the chief executive chooses not to spend funds that have been appropriated by Congress . |
| 19 | This week local Nature Trusts are asking volunteers to visit woods to search for hazlenuts that have been nibbled by dormice . |
| 20 | any other stock items that have been returned by customers ; |
| 21 | Are there differences in the experience of handling and owning materials that have been processed by hand and those processed by machines , tools and computers ? |
| 22 | Both types of explanation are rejected as inadequate by the sociologist : the individualistic because it does not recognise the importance of wider social forces acting on the individual which he or she can not control ; the naturalistic because it fails to recognise that behaviour patterns are not primarily biologically determined but rather reflect social conventions that have been learned by individuals as members of social groups or , more generally , society . |
| 23 | There was a new pattern of industrial relations , a new range of religious and social agencies , a new democratic politics , and a whole host of leisure-time activities and preoccupations that have been identified by historians as constituting a ‘ popular culture ’ . |
| 24 | er we learnt from America that er a lot of birds that have been caught by cats , die , and everybody 's always assumed it 's shock but the Americans were doing some tests and they found it 's septicaemia from the cat 's teeth . |
| 25 | The components of the Weyl tensor inside region IV can be derived using ( 11.10 ) and have been evaluated by Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos . |
| 26 | Mr , Mr , Mrs , Mr , Mr , and have been replaced by Mr , Mr , Mrs , Mr , Mrs . |
| 27 | Two components of necessary grief work have been identified , and have been summarised by Parkes ( 1982b ) . |
| 28 | Like the Zande they live in the southern Sudan and have been studied by Evans-Pritchard , so that at least the personal equation can be held constant in comparisons between these two cultures . |
| 29 | These grants have encouraged changes in hill farming which have led to a loss of semi-natural vegetation , traditional farm woodland and field boundaries , and have been offset by increases in commercial forestry , and cultivated crops and grass . |
| 30 | Self-evidently these texts are strikingly different from original materials issued by the SI in the sense that they have the status of copyrighted property and have been funded by organisations which in the past may have supported progressive art but which do not sound like the champions of revolutionary causes . |