Example sentences of "be [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are interactions by age in figure 13.10 , it is likely that we are dealing with a generation effect . |
| 2 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 3 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 4 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 5 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 6 | In addition to the significant changes which have taken place in local taxation , there have also been attempts by government to modify the tax structure in order to make it more equitable , while at the same time encouraging savings and increasing the base of UK share ownership . |
| 7 | This is an important question since ( a ) dictionaries are attempts by people to represent externally what they know about language ; and ( b ) they are an existing source of information that has evolved over hundreds of years . |
| 8 | That Hubbard and Lewontin are biologists by profession shows up in several ways . |
| 9 | With Hartie mortally wounded by the vengeful NZRU council , Kirwan has now made himself available and the newly appointed backs coach Earle Kirton has been heard suggesting that ‘ King John ’ might be assigned a new role at centre , a position he is successfully filling for his second division Italian club Thiene who are coaches by another Kiwi , John Boe . |
| 10 | If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods , however caused , there has been damage by fire . |
| 11 | Included in the present show are views by Ruskin , Thomas Shotter Boys and William Turner of Oxford , garden pieces by Helen Allingham and Lilian Stannard and an interesting group of interiors and architectural designs including a group of designs by J. D. Crace , together with work by Joseph Nash , Birket Foster and George Pyne . |
| 12 | These are books by middle-aged semi-Scots who have chosen to publish accounts of their early lives which lay stress on the troubles they experienced , on the troubles inflicted , within their respective environments , by poverty and servitude , and on the responsibility of relatives for some of what the writers had to suffer . |
| 13 | The earliest ones I think is , are books by erm Clarendon , The History of the |
| 14 | This is conceded in respect of an offence which would once have been larceny by a trick . |
| 15 | gives two examples in order to show that theft may be committed , although the ( so-called ) appropriation is made by the offender with the consent of the owner , ( 1 ) in the case of robbery and ( 2 ) where there has been larceny by a trick . |
| 16 | There are trips by water dolmus too , and longer coach excursions to the great antiquities of Epheseus . |
| 17 | The notion that they can be judged by Libyan law wherever they are , because they are Libyans by birth and can not alter that by acts of will , seems to underlie the government 's policies of clandestine homicide towards them . |
| 18 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 19 | So on the FGM all three have been countersunk by an extra few mm , meaning that the pickup mounting rings sit flush with the body , which does n't look half as odd as you 'd imagine . |
| 20 | His office and that of Major Herriott are side by side in York . |
| 21 | When two guanine bases are side by side in the DNA chain , both can attach themselves to the same platinum atom , forming a stable complex . |
| 22 | Lovers are normally face to face , absorbed in each other ; friends are side by side , absorbed in some common interest . ’ |
| 23 | The one she invited Franck to sit in and her own are side by side against the wall of the house — backs against this wall , of course — beneath the office window . |
| 24 | If you do try to use them , the first row will knit but , as you knit the second row , where several tucked needles are side by side the yarn will come off the needles and jam the carriage . |
| 25 | They are side by side . ’ |
| 26 | The Royal Scottish National Orchestra gives weekly concerts in the Usher Hall ; Scottish Opera comes to Edinburgh regularly and there are performances by the Scottish Ensemble , the Scottish Chamber Orchestra , the Scottish Early Music Consort and other groups , many of these in the Queen 's Hall , just a few minutes ' walk from the central University area . |
| 27 | The extremes of management approach to the problem are management by discipline and management by project . |
| 28 | ‘ Mes enfants , ’ said the small Belgian person , ‘ chers collègues , I am enchanté by your successes . |
| 29 | I have agreed with the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North that there have been criticisms by the Scottish Consumer Council as to information about bus services . |
| 30 | Also Popular are visits by fado ( Portuguese ballad ) singers and by instrumentalists who play the mandolin . |