Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adj] [prep] [be] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | That sort of short-lived , but expensive and frustrating delay , could soon become a thing of the past if ambitious plans due to be revealed by the Scottish Office today are given the go-ahead by the public and private sectors . |
| 2 | At the same time I was working on a small English-Burmese dictionary with about 3,500 of the most common words likely to be needed by government workers going back into Burma when liberation should come . |
| 3 | Maria made the decision to sacrifice a certain amount of advertising revenue and turn the radio station into a temporary community service , as other stations and television channels were doing , monitoring the situation and providing updates , broadcasting official government warnings and advice to those districts likely to be affected by after-shocks and urging their local listenership to donate blood against a possible depletion of existing supplies . |
| 4 | Two of 249 Squadron 's Hurricanes ablaze after being strafed by Müncheberg and his pilots at Takali on 25 May 1941 . |
| 5 | It is important for the patient to be aware of the limitations likely to be caused by his spasticity . |
| 6 | A less arbitrary and more realistic basis for limitation of volume would perhaps be provided by the areas able to be covered by each type of installation of protective system , or multiples of such systems . |
| 7 | The longer a party has a majority in the Commons , the greater the number of local authorities likely to be captured by its opponents . |
| 8 | This correlation is not of course self-explanatory but three plausible connections can be identified : the differential formation of ‘ class self-image ’ in the presence or absence of property-owning ; the rational calculation of self-interest on the part of the occupants of the different forms of housing , with regard to the tax and rent policies likely to be pursued by the parties ; and the flow of political information within the cultural milieu of the residential area . |
| 9 | Naturally , the standards and norms likely to be developed by the police in employing a verification procedure are not going to be pure and objective scientific generalisations . |
| 10 | Conceived by Cristiana Romalli of Sotheby 's , the show will include a predominance of drawings from private collections unlikely to be seen by the public under other circumstances . |
| 11 | It is then up to the Minister to defeat the defence by proving that he had taken reasonable steps to bring the purport of the instrument to the notice of the public or of persons likely to be affected by it , or of the person charged . |
| 12 | The district judge can order a trial instead of arbitration , if satisfied that a difficult question of law or exceptionally difficult questions of fact are involved , that fraud is alleged , that both parties agree to trial , or that it would be unreasonable to order arbitration in the particular case having regard to the subject matter , the size of any counterclaim , the circumstances of the parties or the interests of other persons likely to be affected by the claim . |
| 13 | They include in the case of land held by trustees for sale , all interests and powers capable of being overridden by the trustees for sale . |
| 14 | In the case of settled land , all interests and powers capable of being overridden by the tenant for life or the statutory owner . |
| 15 | We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it . |
| 16 | If we knew all the pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action , and could assign a degree of intensity , a duration , and a probability ( represented as a fraction of one ) to each , then the multiplication of these by each other , treating pleasure as a positive and pain as a negative quantity , would give the total positive or negative value of the action 's consequences , and it would be a good or right act if the result was positive , bad or wrong if it was negative . |
| 17 | We are not only to include pleasures and pains liable to be produced by an action in estimating its rightness or wrongness , but pleasures and pains liable to be prevented by it . |
| 18 | The second of these two factors is likely to be the more important constraint in the long run , for even at the end of the 1980s it is rare to find a graduate in geography who is first of all aware of the wide-ranging scope of the subject and secondly is familiar with the operations capable of being performed by a modern computer system . |
| 19 | PRO — proposed : Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment . |
| 20 | Endorsement is the process by which all users likely to be affected by an SSR are informed of its existence and permitted to accept or reject it according to their usage of it . |
| 21 | PRO — proposed Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an optional comment . |
| 22 | Other users likely to be affected by the change have been shown the DC and may agree or reject it , with an appropriate comment . |
| 23 | Practically all routes likely to be used by visitors pass along or cross Princes Street . |
| 24 | In order to provide effective compiler generate code from high level languages it was decided that VAX should have a very regular and consistent treatment of operators , avoid instructions unlikely to be generated by a compiler , include several forms of common operators , and replace common instruction sequences with single instructions . |
| 25 | However , a German vet has now started an international aid project , and the UK division of Hills Pet Products has already sent 20 tons of food , making a total of 49 tons ready to be distributed by the city 's three main dog clubs . |
| 26 | Examples from everyday experience arise in the " tackiness ' of rubber solution , or the ability of polystyrene , for instance , to form threads when softened by solvents such as are used by model makers . |
| 27 | a Scottish sailor marooned on the island of Juan Fernandez from 1704 until he was picked up by Captain Woodes Rogers 52 months later ; Woodes 's account of him gave Defoe the idea of Robinson Crusoe , and Cowper wrote a poem entitled ‘ Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk ’ , beginning ‘ I am monarch of all I survey ’ . |
| 28 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 29 | He said : ’ Sterling looks set to be masticated by EMUs , ERMs and ECUs before being made fodder for that monetary successor to the Panzer , the Deutsches Bundesbank . ’ |
| 30 | Information collected within operational systems , such as payroll , can feed into decision support systems such as are provided by a personnel data base , which in turn can be summarised for use in planning and modelling systems . |