Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , the mortgage advance will be sent by cheque and on other occasions it may be sent by telegraphic transfer . |
| 2 | Such a sub-lithospheric thermal anomaly may be generated by a mantle plume , an upwelling of hot mantle originating deep in the Earth 's interior , possibly at the core-mantle boundary ; alternatively , it may be caused by localized heating at shallower depths in the mantle . |
| 3 | Finally , there is the danger that once an organisation disbands its own workforce it may be exploited by monopolistic outside suppliers . |
| 4 | Environmentalists have attacked the plan for lacking specifics , and have warned that it may be diminished by budgetary cutbacks as a result of scrutiny by the federal Treasury . |
| 5 | If the draught is sluggish , it may be improved by fitting vents in wooden floors near to the fireplace ; or you might have to install a vent in an outside wall . |
| 6 | Soviet economist Grigory Yavlinsky , revived the Shatalin plan for a more rapid transition to a market economy ( this time proposing that it should be backed by Western aid of Marshall Plan proportions ) . |
| 7 | The solution to ‘ He was not really afraid of any landlady ’ might appear to be that we have here a masked first-person avowal , and that it is simply an indication of Dostoevsky 's boldness that it should be surrounded by authorial statements which are firmly outside and ( so to say ) on top of Raskolnikov in the classical omniscient third-person mode : for example , information about his poverty , irritable frame of mind , withdrawal from society , his ‘ not naturally timorous and abject ’ disposition . |
| 8 | The statement ‘ everyone has a right to medical care adequate to his health and well-being ’ is , in the Universal Declaration , tantamount to the highwayman 's ‘ stand and deliver ’ : if this right is not realisable within a society , it must be realised by compulsory redistribution and reorganisation as between societies , and if it is still impracticable even by compulsion on an international scale , so much the worse for the international community ! |
| 9 | Because this skill is vital to a nurse , it must be developed by clinical teachers , tutors and the ward team . |
| 10 | It has therefore become apparent that if language support for bilingual students is to succeed it must be accompanied by planned staff development for the subject specialists . |
| 11 | Whatever reward is delivered it must be accompanied by lavish amounts of praise and attention . |
| 12 | Peace was clearly desired , and if it could not be arranged on these agreed terms , it must be found by other means . |
| 13 | Mr Brown got the Blackpool conference off to a storming start , brushing aside fears that it might be distracted by Euro rebel Bryan Gould 's resignation from John Smith 's top team . |
| 14 | Robyn herself would disapprove of it on ideological grounds , and it might be interpreted by other students as creeping . |
| 15 | Darwin introduced new lines of evidence , but these were not enough to convince everyone of the superiority of his particular explanation , and the general idea of evolution succeeded because it could be exploited by powerful interest groups acting within science . |
| 16 | Alternatively , it could be heated by energetic ions and electrons from the magnetosphere or by some unknown uv absorber . |
| 17 | Now the communists are divided , and the larger wing , the Democratic Left , wears such liberal colours that it could be accepted by other parties as a partner in future coalitions . |
| 18 | For the moment , in the north , it could be maintained by Chinese approval or at least complaisance and by keeping the French out . |
| 19 | On that date , he appeared with the duty solicitor and an application was made under the Magistrates ' Courts Act 1980 , s. 142 to re-open the case so that it could be heard by different justices . |
| 20 | so that it could be handled by abstract people . |
| 21 | It could be gathered by inshore divers down to ten metres and where necessary dredged from greater depths by nets weighed down by heavy timber frames . |
| 22 | US diplomatic sources said that the initiative was being pursued secretly because of fears that it could be sabotaged by anti-Arafat Palestinian factions advocating armed struggle against Israel rather than negotiations . |
| 23 | It could be faked by rear projection or front projection : but the first would be quite obviously phony , unless lit with uncommon skill and the second would probably be restricting in terms of movement — certainly the camera could not track sideways . |
| 24 | The Government would not stand in the way of a united Ireland provided it could be negotiated by democratic and peaceful means . |
| 25 | 12.2 This Agreement and all the terms , provisions and conditions of this Agreement and all questions of construction , validity and performance under it shall be governed by English Law . |
| 26 | If one were to suggest that in order to learn French we should first practise and watch sentences such as ‘ He makes of the sun ’ in order to prepare the way for the sentence ‘ Il fait du soleil ’ , it would be ridiculed by modern language theorists . |
| 27 | By contrast , despite earlier speculation that it would be supported by ex-Cabinet ministers , Heseltine 's nomination was ultimately signed only by a former junior minister and a backbencher who had never held ministerial office . |
| 28 | Just as the deputy head had made certain assumptions about the absence of a wedding ring on the candidate 's hand , so this teacher made certain assumptions about the symbolic value of the wedding ring and the way it would be perceived by Catholic governors . |
| 29 | This emphasis on " coherence " , rather than " cohesion " , would take the workshop into quite a different area ; an area where it would be informed by relevant stylistic work on , for example , plot structure ( Stubbs 1982 ) discourse structure ( Hoey 1989 ) and semantic-relational structure ( Crombie 1989 ) . |
| 30 | In a Diploma Level course it would be supplemented by self-organized practical work whilst , in academic courses ( ( c ) – ( g ) below ) there would be a requirement for personal reading and assignments . |