Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps male bats have body surfaces that are subtly textured so that the echoes that bounce off them are perceived by females as gorgeously coloured , the sound equivalent of the nuptial plumage of a bird of paradise . |
| 2 | The move is occasioned by the fact that the 1982–3 pool allocations represent a cut in income of about 9 per cent for the polytechnics and as much as 15 per cent for the colleges of higher education , the difference between them being ascribed by the DES to the fact that it has to base its view on cuts on earlier data and the polytechnics have reduced their unit costs more sharply than the colleges in interim years . |
| 3 | The new occupants of the throne owed their position to Parliament , and the new relationship between them was asserted by statute in the Bill of Rights . |
| 4 | Since the early years of this century it has been recognized by scholars that this story had its origins in a tale about someone being attacked by the spirit or demon of the Jabbok , the embodiment of the great dangers involved in crossing the river at night after the rains . |
| 5 | The only thing miraculous about my hypothetical story is the coincidence between my being struck by lightning and my verbal invocation of the disaster . |
| 6 | The husband , loving him , looking after him is regarded by us as a duty . |
| 7 | As the convoys began to mass on friday police from six counties joined forces in a combined operation — devised after what was regarded by many as the fiasco at Castlemorton last year . |
| 8 | I do n't think you need worry about her being hoodwinked by anyone ; she can see through most people . ’ |
| 9 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 10 | All other stress components are zero as are the strains except for which is given by where u is the displacement measured on a fiducial length l . |
| 11 | But you get in nowhere without a pass , applications for which are vetted by the Special Branch , and this year hundreds of passes went missing and had to be queued for . |
| 12 | For almost every railway line built by the different railway companies — permission for which was passed by the House in different eras — we laid down different procedures . |
| 13 | Pensions and unemployment payments were based on an insurance scheme , the funds for which were raised by taxes levied on both workers and employers . |
| 14 | The Law Society acts through its Council which is composed of 70 solicitors , 56 of whom are elected by members of the Society with the remaining 14 being elected by the Council itself . |
| 15 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 16 | The outstanding collection of seventeenth century pictures includes an exhilarating landscape by Rubens and works by Poussin , Claude , Frans Hals and Murillo , the last of whom is represented by a grandly orchestrated Marriage Feast at Cana , one of the undoubted gems of the collection . |
| 17 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 18 | Among the local families who had dealings with the duke were the Ratcliffes of Bradley near Skipton , one of whom was retained by Gloucester for service in the Scottish campaign of 1480 . |
| 19 | 20,000 pensioners , all of whom were obliged by law to pay into a pension fund are thought to be affected . |
| 20 | This , as Economist journalists discovered , proved to be a highly unorthodox meeting , as two outsiders , neither of whom were bound by the Privy Counsellor 's oath of confidentiality , were in attendance : ‘ Chaired by Mrs Thatcher , [ the meeting ] was attended , unusually , for part of the time , by two outsiders : Sir John Cuckney , Westland 's chairman … and Mr Marcus Agius , a director of Lazard 's , Westland 's financial advisers . ’ |
| 21 | It fielded 325 official candidates ( not one of whom was a woman ) and supported some 40 independents , several of whom were adopted by the party during the course of the campaign . |
| 22 | The great spate of English translations of Paracelsus also belonged to the 1650s , confirming that the peak of his influence in England connected with what is arguably the unsurpassed golden age of British science and medicine , coinciding with the formative years of such figures as Boyle , Sydenham , and Willis , all of whom were affected by paracelsian influences . |
| 23 | Royal portrait painter Andrew Festing has been commissioned by MCC to produce a group picture of several great players , including Trevor Bailey , Alec Bedser , Sir Colin Cowdrey , Godfrey Evans and Peter May , all of whom were photographed by Festing during the recent Lord 's Test . |
| 24 | It was soon taken up by other French writers , many of whom were attracted by its reminiscences of the Greek phalanx of classical times , and a prolonged controversy between the advocates of the new system and those of the traditional line formation developed . |
| 25 | They were organized into fourteen sections , each under the command of a captain and a sergeant-major , both of whom were chosen by the municipal council from amongst the most important landowners in the region . |
| 26 | Part of me was moved by his tribute . |
| 27 | Certain parts of me were defined by the grass that I dented with my feet or the cushion that I hollowed with my back and had an identity both in time and space ; but the breasts and cunt he briefly fondled existed only because touched at his will and through his perception of them . |
| 28 | For example , in 1980 the British government consulted no fewer than 500 groups in drafting its legislation based upon the Finniston Report on Engineering , even though many of these groups had a negligible impact upon the government , sixteen of them are regarded by Richardson and Jordan as key' groups . |
| 29 | Many of them are made by floating the freshly gathered blossoms on pure water and then allowing them to sit in the sunshine for a few hours . |
| 30 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |