Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 're all fascinated by the dark side , ’ said Oscar-winner Anthony Hopkins , 54 . |
| 2 | What and they 're all supplied by the Norwegian government ? |
| 3 | Worse still , of course , is the prospect of recording progress within ‘ the Record of Achievement ’ which all schools , at least at the secondary level , are likely to have by the early 1990s as a result of government policy and local initiative . |
| 4 | Members are all recognised by the Royal Yachting Association and use the latest technology combined with traditional skills to help students achieve their aim . |
| 5 | These are all justified by the dramatic context Orpheus 's happiness as he sings to the shepherds , his effort to impress Charon , his triumph as he marches off to fetch Eurydice — but they also gave the audience music to remember . |
| 6 | Engineering is a professional subject and the BEng and MEng degrees offered in the School are all accredited by the appropriate Professional Engineering Institution as acceptable for leading to the status of Chartered Engineer . |
| 7 | It is excellent news for the area , building on the success of the business and creating natural resource-based jobs in areas which are all affected by the current decline in oil industry fabrication work , ’ said Dr Cantley . |
| 8 | Railways , airlines , banks , and insurance companies are all controlled by the central regime . |
| 9 | The codes used for PC compatible computers are those defined by the American Standard Code for Information Interchange ( ASCII ) . |
| 10 | The negotiation of the contractual terms of such relationships is all too often regarded as a contest in which the supplier attempts to exclude the maximum possible liability to the customer , and the customer to impose the maximum possible liability on the supplier ; the only rules are those imposed by the Unfair Contract Terms Act , and the contest is finally decided by the relative bargaining power of the two parties . |
| 11 | Of the non-QTS qualifications , the best known are those developed by the Royal Society of Arts and now administered by the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate . |
| 12 | Some transactions costs differ between traders , and the relevant transactions costs in each case are those faced by the marginal trader , for instance market makers in shares . |
| 13 | Our proposals for attainment targets and programmes of study are those recommended by the Working Group . |
| 14 | The novels considered are those read by the undiscriminating crowd . |
| 15 | Projects least vulnerable to the accusation that they are dealing with non-problems are those initiated by the International Chamber of Commerce , the membership of whose Com-missions is drawn preponderantly from the world of industry and commerce , banking , shipping , and arbitration . |
| 16 | The most informative are those published by the Financial Times , ( Fig. 8.1 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ The only neighbourhood committees here are those controlled by the political party in government . |
| 18 | The only computers in many villages are those owned by the teenage boys of the affluent to play their wham-bam games . |
| 19 | If this argument sticks — and it looks like it might — the only innovations that will remain unprotected will be those made by the rural poor in Africa , Asia and Latin America . |
| 20 | seven works of art or architecture which were each held by the ancient world to be supreme in their own way : 1 . |
| 21 | When we arrived at Papillote , which had advertised itself as being ‘ in the rainforest ’ , we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest . |
| 22 | The law of vortical movement in primordial matter is one of the oldest conceptions of Greek-philosophers , whose great minds were all nourished by the arcane Vedic wisdom and taken up 2000 years later by Copernicus , Galileo , Descartes and Swedenborg . |
| 23 | Can my right hon. and learned Friend confirm reports in The Guardian earlier this year that the 12 local authorities with the worst record in English , mathematics and modern language results were all controlled by the Liberal Democrats or the Labour party ? |
| 24 | The soil conservation efforts ( in Lesotho ) were no more successful in increasing agricultural output than were those installed by the British during the pre-independence period . |
| 25 | The Falkland Isles were first occupied by the British in March 1765 , but a Spanish expedition from Buenos Aires , in 1770 , initially expelled the British , but Spain surrendered the Isles back to Britain , in January 1771 , after the threat of war . |
| 26 | He and Maclean were next glimpsed by the Western Press in the National Hotel , Moscow , in 1956 . |
| 27 | The servatons at last emerged from the off-world ships , whose airlocks had been remote controlled by the overseeing Intelloids . |
| 28 | The most frequently quoted definition of non-natural user is that given by the Judicial Committee in Rickards v. Lothian , ‘ It must be some special use bringing with it increased danger to others and must not merely be the ordinary use of the land or such a use as is proper for the general benefit of the community . ’ |
| 29 | The most graphic statement of the dual role , though some would call it an overstatement ( e.g. Pearce , 1982 ) , is that given by the National Association of Head Teachers ( NAHT ) in response to a document on the role of the advisory service issued by the Society of Education Officers and the National Association of Inspectors and Educational Advisers : |
| 30 | The only text of the whole legend which exists is that written by the Greek author Plutarch in the first century AD , De Iside et Osiride . |