Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These exercises need to be taught by a continence adviser , a community nurse or physiotherapist . |
| 2 | a master plan for the new town is to be prepared by a consultant , working in close consultation with the local planning authority , since the bulk of the development will be carried out privately . |
| 3 | ONE OF English cricket 's most respected administrators once told me that there were three golden rules to be observed by a county recruiting an overseas player . |
| 4 | Furious staff claim they were even called in from holidays to be grilled by a specialist security firm at the MetroCentre in Gateshead , Tyne and Wear . |
| 5 | ( The last sentence of transportation to be pronounced by a Mayor of Saltash was in 1877 , upon a ‘ ticket of leave ’ man guilty of stealing a watch at the town 's regatta ) . |
| 6 | If consent makes a touching lawful , then it must follow that if a patient withholds consent , if he refuses to be touched by a doctor , any further touching will be unlawful , and will give rise to civil and criminal liability . |
| 7 | Love , which indeed hid itself , but not shyly and fearfully , rather secretly and thoughtfully , so as not to be touched by a stranger 's hand — his first love , not his strongest and certainly not his deepest , but surely his most blessed . |
| 8 | Companies should not continue to be penalised by a reference to an inherent uncertainty in the auditors ' report when the directors have given it prominent and full disclosure . |
| 9 | ‘ I was discussing a statistic I 'd heard that you 're more likely to be killed by a donkey than in an aeroplane disaster . |
| 10 | Trevor was the third person to be killed by a grizzly in Jasper Park since 1929 . |
| 11 | The animal bounced back to its feet only to be killed by a bus . |
| 12 | AN SAS hero survived daring undercover operations during the Gulf War — only to be killed by a mate 's tragic blunder on a peacetime exercise . |
| 13 | The office was to be separated by a party wall from other government departments . |
| 14 | He reportedly would sit for hours in a depressive silence , to be broken by a harangue on his pet hates , which included sherry drinkers and those by the name of Hambly . |
| 15 | Under the plan there were to be changes in public finance policy ; budget deficits were to be limited to 10 per cent of total revenue ; government bonds were to be issued on the Muscat securities market to replace dependence on foreign borrowing ; the state general reserve fund was to be strengthened by a transfer of oil revenues ; a contingency fund was to be created to " cope with any international or domestic variables " ; and privatization of selected assets was to go ahead . |
| 16 | All the same , she was n't best pleased to be disturbed by a knock on her door as she wrapped herself in a towelling robe and hid her wet hair in a turban after she stepped out of the shower . |
| 17 | There is another necessary condition and that is that a pitch difference must be perceptible ; it is possible to detect differences in the frequency of the vibration of a speaker 's voice by means of laboratory instruments , but these differences may not be great enough to be heard by a listener as differences in pitch . |
| 18 | When a particular issue is directed by the High Court to be heard by a county court , all of those documents listed above must be lodged . |
| 19 | Each section was supposed to be heated by a coke fired tortoise stove and large hot water pipes but in mid-winter it was really cold unless you were lucky enough to sit near the fire . |
| 20 | I do n't know whether there is a charge for this ; if there is , please would you let me know before sending the report as all expenditure has to be authorised by a meeting of the Parish Council . |
| 21 | It was then the custom for women 's teams to be captained by a man , which caused a degree of tension . |
| 22 | If a long hall was to be vaulted by a cross or groined vault the room would be divided by piers into square bays each of which would be covered by a cross vault . |
| 23 | However , to the CNAA 's surprise , a number of institutions has indicated that they wish to take advantage of the new procedures by proposing special arrangements which would , in effect , provide for all their courses to be validated by a method other than the normal one . |
| 24 | These charges seemed to be validated by a comparison with other contemporary courts , such as that of Russia or Austria , where a more traditional pattern of behaviour and etiquette was the fossilized norm . |
| 25 | When ‘ untreated ’ timber ( ie , wood which has not been impregnated with preservative ) is built into solid walls , it has no protection from dampness in the wall and it is common for joist-ends to be shielded by a skin of brickwork only a half-a-brick thick ( Fig 31 ) . |
| 26 | David Platt 's return from world cup stage to Wembley stage is likely to be spoilt by a knee injury . |
| 27 | Of this Rs75,000 million increase , only Rs19,000 million would be derived from new tax measures , the remainder to be gained by a reduction in tax evasion . |
| 28 | It was seen also to reflect the growing strength of the fundamentalist lobby within ANAP believed to be led by a Minister of State , Mehmet Kececiler , who had campaigned publicly for more Islam-oriented legislation . |
| 29 | For the music to be led by a worship band seems to me to be more appropriate to our culture . |
| 30 | But I , I had no idea that he then had to be that , being given his own funding , he then had to be organized by a committee . |