Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is too much archaeology to be contained in any undergraduate degree or to be taught by any group of teachers . |
| 2 | It would seem that once again nursing students are to be abused by this government . |
| 3 | It is important to distinguish between allies and enemies : large numbers of aphids , for example , are often accompanied by ladybird or lacewing larvae which feed voraciously on them and are liable to be killed by many insecticides . |
| 4 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 5 | The best thing that could happen now would be for the scheme to be killed by another backbench Tory revolt , like the rebellion which quashed Sir Keith Joseph 's 1985 effort to make student fees income-related . |
| 6 | Let him who is prepared , should McNab decide on another experiment , to have needles driven into his stomach , allow himself to be treated by this charlatan . |
| 7 | While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman . |
| 8 | A child whose mother has just started full-time employment may only be likely to be disturbed by this event if he has also recently lost his father . |
| 9 | It goes without saying that once the primary structure has failed there must be provision for the failure to be detected by some means before the redundant structure itself is weakened by continuous flight loads . |
| 10 | If the pair of you would rather stay away , then so be it ; but you must not be surprised if the rest of us refuse to be inconvenienced by such behaviour . ’ |
| 11 | However , these concepts do not constitute a theory of word perception or production : they are names for structures and processes whose nature is to be explained by any theory of word perception or production . |
| 12 | ‘ Some products have too wide a variation to be explained by these factors and one must assume that many multi-national companies are charging what they believe the market will bear . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Or maybe you 'd prefer to be invigorated by another stalemate argument with me on the subject . ’ |
| 14 | As the subject has to be studied by all pupils , it tends to become a forum for half-baked discussion of moral or social issues , in order that it may not seem irrelevant to the non-religious , or offensive to the keenly sectarian . |
| 15 | If girls are taught from an early age that science is a subject to be studied by all pupils , and is not ‘ only for the boys ’ , then some of the problems relating to girls ' under-achievement in science in the secondary school will be resolved ( Equal Opportunities Commission 1982 : 4 ) |
| 16 | Thus : ( 1 ) the said Solicitors ' Publicity Code ( which is summarised in Chapter 12 ) was introduced in 1988 , revised in 1990 , and covers the whole field ; from the general ( solicitors may hold themselves out to be good , but not to be better than the other firm down the road ; publicity must be accurate and not mislead ; a solicitor 's advertisement must identify the solicitor by name ) to the particular ( the correct designation of a solicitor 's practice , entries in legal directories , addresses to the Court and the use of the legal aid logo ) ; ( 2 ) the Law Society 's code incorporates by reference the provisions of the British Code of Advertising Practice which in its own way requires publicity material to be honest , truthful and decent , unambiguous and responsible , and contains a separate section relating to the advertising of financial services and products ; ( 3 ) the Financial Services ( Conduct of Business ) Rules 1987 also cover the advertising of financial services and products and will need to be studied by any firm carrying on investment business ; ( 4 ) solicitors will also need to be familiar with the Consumer Credit ( Advertisements ) Regulations 1989 and other secondary legislation in that connection , the whole corpus replete with the jargon unique to that area of law ; ( 5 ) the Business Names Act 1985 , which has already been referred to in Chapter 1 , requires revision of a firm 's letterheading every time there is a change in the identity of the partners , which will include any occasion when a salaried partner whose name has previously been shown " below the line " is promoted . |
| 17 | These years were also marked by judicial executions and forfeiture of lands on a scale unknown , perhaps , since the Conquest , and the relations between the crown and nobility for the rest of the century were to be influenced by these upheavals and by the precedent set when the king himself was deposed . |
| 18 | ‘ Beyond this ’ , however , leaves indefinite the point at which , or frequency with which , the use of biography deserves to be called by that name . |
| 19 | I 'm not sure that withholding diplomatic recognition is the best way to approach that , after all diplomatic recognition is concerned really with the effective control of territory and things like that rather than with moral principles , however , I think that er , when the Soviet Republics are signing their new Union Treaty or Commonwealth Treaty or whatever it 's going to be called by that time , this question should be amongst the most important to be tackled there , that 's to say the rights of ethnic minorities living in Republican Territories , that they should have the right to educate their children in their own language , that they should have the right to their own religion and so on and so forth . |
| 20 | ‘ I will take you back to the cage … and in the morning I will give the order that you are to be called by any name you want . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | We received no checklists of basic topics to be covered by all tutors , and no indication that anything other than general exhortation might be insisted on by course organisers . |
| 23 | I do feel that this is necessary because we are allocating or just allocating our proposed budget er a substantial amount of extra resources through the rights of way which I am thoroughly in favour of but I do think we need to know how that money is going to be used and which of the items which are to appear in the report are going to be covered by that money and which is still going to need to be addressed next year when we have to book in time for it for next year . |
| 24 | Can anybody fail , fail to be moved by those pictures . |
| 25 | Although it is always dangerous to extrapolate from a sample , the findings of the evaluation give rise to cautious optimism that the basis of the new advanced courses system continues to be supported by most staff , even if there is understandable criticism of individual aspects of the implementation . |
| 26 | My own experience , backed up by that of field workers I have talked with and beginning to be supported by some research evidence suggests that other factors such as personal maturity and the will and opportunity to keep up to date are even more important . |
| 27 | Shanti was eight years old and we were determined that her childhood was not going to be spoiled by this disability . |
| 28 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 29 | The terms can be drafted so as to provide that all contracts between the parties are to be governed by those terms , and a copy of the terms can be signed by trading partners at the commencement of a trading relationship . |
| 30 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |