Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pers pn] [modal v] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Textiles workers , Greater London Staff Association , Apex , tailor and garment workers , they were all wooed by other unions but they all had the good sense to merge into the G M B. In the next few months we 'll be joined by members of E F T A T. I am delighted that the Special E F T A T Conference voted in favour of the G M B. I welcome that decision and I pay tribute to the many colleagues who worked so hard to achieve that victory . |
| 2 | In trying to understand its other functions we shall be helped by looking at the Bank 's balance sheet as set out in Table 3.2 . |
| 3 | It 's helpful in the context of the dollar preference shares we want to issue because one of the factors of this very small , and as you say cheap er , historic issue of preference shares is that , er no preference shares other than those can be repaid prior to that and the dollar shares we wish to issue which are permanent shares , can be er , can be erm repaid at our option and we do want to keep that flexibility in the context of either if interest rates get very high or if the tax treaty between the U S and the U K changes to make them more onerous on the company and in those circumstances we would be inhibited by the existence of this small historic issue of preference shares and therefore it is on balance , although you 're quite right there , a cheap er , source of capital in themselves it is helpful to the company in the wider sense I believe if they are repaid . |
| 4 | On these visits they would be joined by multiple cousins , and together ‘ we used to love to listen to stories about the past of the family : ’ stories which frame the opening of this granddaughter 's own life . |
| 5 | In the next few days you will be briefed by your managers who will be picking up issues specific to your particular part of the organisation and who will act as feedback channels for your questions and concerns . |
| 6 | From around six weeks you should be rewarded by an answering smile . |
| 7 | but it wo n't be read by the cons it 'll be read by the screws |
| 8 | With other feelings we may be burdened by their strength , yet still be free enough to choose whether we express them to others by word or action , indulge them or keep a tight rein on them . |
| 9 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 10 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 11 | Because they copy their neighbours they will be affected by the results of these units ' psychology tests , break tests , and so on . |
| 12 | When other ships were sunk by icebergs he would be telephoned by newsmen eager for him to imagine the fate of the victims . |
| 13 | If a company publishes any of its statutory accounts they must be accompanied by the auditors ' report and if it is required to prepare statutory group accounts it may not publish its ( statutory ) individual accounts unless they are accompanied by its statutory group accounts . |
| 14 | Where the English partners of these enterprises are carrying on their practice as English solicitors they will be bound by the Overseas Practice Rules 1990 as well as by the local laws of the countries in which they operate . |
| 15 | The statement of the relevant facts and evidence are commonly set out at the beginning of the judgment , but in appellate courts they may be incorporated by reference to the judgments of lower courts and may be in the middle of the report of the case if that is where the principal judgment appears . |
| 16 | Occasionally our local gulls will be joined by the odd glaucous gull whose summer home is farther north , in Iceland or even in Spitsbergen : the glaucous gulls superficially resemble our herring gulls in that the adults have white bodies with grey backs , and the immatures are speckled brown , but at all ages they can be distinguished by having no black markings on the wing-tips , which are uniform fawn or white , depending on the age of the bird . |
| 17 | Because the technique involves work with genes it must be approved by an independent ethical committee . |
| 18 | In some instances it may be possible to produce quantitative data to support recommendations ; in other instances it may be provided by the perceived value of a service based on a consumer survey . |
| 19 | A depressive reaction of psychotic proportion frequently occurs alone but in other cases it may be replaced by a state of mania which may also , though more rarely , be found without swings into depression . |
| 20 | There certainly is scope for such studies : documentary material survives in town archives in such forms as deeds and rentals , and in some cases it can be supplemented by archaeological work , as twentieth-century redevelopment in town centres has given opportunities to investigate the surviving material remains below . |
| 21 | And in all , in most of those cases it will be covered by the individual exemption of five thousand eight hundred per annum anyway . |
| 22 | If insects were as large as small mammals they would be killed by their own weight . |
| 23 | It was also believed by some that if they went on strike for higher wages they would be victimized by all the companies in the area . |
| 24 | If the patient reader is not surfeited by all this playing with numbers he may be entertained by a calculation of the " expenditure " of a vote originally given to Paisley with a second preference for Bill Craig and a third for some other candidate . |
| 25 | Since a digital image is simply an array of numbers it can be manipulated by computer ; the type of manipulation depends on the aims of the user . |
| 26 | ‘ When it trades in the securities markets it can be regulated by the SEC . ’ |
| 27 | In a few moments we 'll be joined by Dan Topolski , a man who did more for Oxford rowing than anyone else . |
| 28 | As public documents they can be scrutinised by anyone prepared to pay the search fee . |
| 29 | While this transformation depends fundamentally on workers ' initiatives it could be aided by a government using the financing relation ( 4 ) as a means of leverage . |
| 30 | From the top floors you can be inspired by the panoramic views across the City and from all the floors you , can look out onto a vast covered court . |