Example sentences of "be [verb] to [pron] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In its simplest form hearsay is evidence of facts which are not within the knowledge of a witness but have been communicated to him by another . |
| 2 | It was delivered very secretly by a student of the Convitto Maria Luigia who travelled on the tram , and it had been given to him by another boy at the same school , a boarder whom I knew well and who lived in Fontenallato . |
| 3 | ‘ And we 've been recommended to you by one of your staff , I believe . |
| 4 | This has happened to us and has been reported to us by many other couples . |
| 5 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 6 | Outdoor shops are just sports shops , but instead of a seedy man with a moustache selling you nylon football strips and tennis balls , outdoor shops stock only merchandise connected with hill-walking , climbing , skiing and sometimes canoeing , all of which will be offered to you by rosy-cheeked young sales people in fleecy tops . |
| 7 | The group relief position between the various members of the vendor group , including Target , needs to be considered by both Newco and the vendor , because it will have a bearing on : ( a ) what the parties to the buy-out agree should be paid by Target for group relief to be surrendered to it by other members of the vendor group or , conversely , what payment Target should receive for losses and other group relief items which are available for surrender from Target to other members of the vendor group ; ( b ) whether adjustments need to be made to inter-company loan accounts ; for example if it has been assumed that in the accounting period of Target in which the buy-out occurs it will achieve a certain level of profitability which will enable it to claim group relief from other group companies and that those other companies will accordingly be able to write off £x of inter-company debt due to Target , the fact that Target leaves the vendor group , say , half-way through that accounting period , will prima facie reduce the amount of group relief it can claim to half of £x ; furthermore Newco may not be willing to pay as much as half of £x out of Target unless this represents a discount on the amount of corporation tax Target would otherwise have to pay on such profits ; additionally , the notional disposals which Target makes under s179 TCGA when it leaves the group may either increase its profits ( if a gain arises ) or decrease them ( if a loss arises ) ; ( c ) what the parties agree in terms of indemnity cover for Newco for tax charges crystallising in Target ; for example , the vendor goup may agree to surrender sufficient group relief to Target free of charge to preclude any charge to corporation tax arising from the operation of s179 when Target leaves the group . |
| 8 | Entries should be sent to him by 1 June at the Office of Public Service and Science , Cabinet Office , . |
| 9 | The upset and damage which has been caused to us by these articles is an extremely serious matter . |
| 10 | The argument for separating judgments of quality from the funding have been put to him by some people in higher education who are afraid that quality judgments might have a practical effect on the universities . |
| 11 | Early workers with X-rays , who were exposed to what by modern standards are horrifying doses , developed cancers at an alarming rate . |
| 12 | Mr and Mrs Crump , who until that moment had reigned serene in their social supremacy at the Swan , moved swiftly from slight disgruntlement to genuine delight as details of the new arrival 's pedigree , accoutrements , speech and manner were relayed to them by one or other of the scampering servants . |
| 13 | People are active , conscious , and choose to behave as they do , rather than being driven to it by social forces outside their control . |
| 14 | There were great privations in post-war England , of course , and parcels of groceries and other rationed foods were dispatched to him by American friends well into the early Fifties . |
| 15 | Both these opinions were repeated to me by many people and both seemed likely to be true . |
| 16 | It was found among a collection of magazines , news-sheets and leaflets which were sent to us by one of the researchers for our archives on feminism in the 20th century . |
| 17 | If a little girl can not feel herself able to win the heart of her father , her own father who has known her so well and so long , and is tied to her by mutual blood-ties , I reasoned , then how can the young woman who comes later have any deep confidence in the power of her womanliness . |
| 18 | What Pausanias actually says is that Hegetorides , the xenos in question , ‘ is bound to me by closer ties of friendship than anyone else in that part of the world ’ . |
| 19 | E. McTaggart , in The Nature of Existence , refers to Russell as having led him ‘ to accept the view that the self is known to itself by direct perception ’ . |
| 20 | It affects children of both sexes and is passed to them by both parents . |
| 21 | A Mary Queen of Scots coin was given to her by well-wisher Jessie Brown , 40 , of South Carntyne , Glasgow . |
| 22 | Its name was given to it by Jesuit missionaries in South America who saw the flowers as a representation of the Crucifixion — the corona is the crown of thorns , the anthers the five wounds in the hands , feet and side of Christ , the three styles , the nails , the five petals and five sepals 10 of the disciples , less Peter and Judas , the hand-shaped leaves and tendrils the hands and whips of Christ 's torturers . |
| 23 | The ownership which the sellers were thus given in the handbags was not , however , reserved to the sellers but was granted to them by those who would otherwise have been the owners , namely the buyers of the leather . |
| 24 | A rough-coated collie called Tip , he was offered to me by some relatives down the dale whilst I still had Chip . |
| 25 | MI6 never appreciated the amount of opposition that existed within Germany to Hitler and the Nazi party in its early days and as a result failed to exploit the very considerable amount of information that was offered to it by well-placed anti-Nazi groups . |
| 26 | A story was told to me by one of these old beer runners . |