Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] [vb pp] by [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alistair Darling , Labour MP for Edinburgh Central , said : ‘ I think Scotland 's future should be decided by people who live in Scotland , pay taxes in Scotland and have a personal stake in the nation 's future . ’ |
| 2 | A principal role should be undertaken by staff directly involved with and who are experienced in dealing with , elderly groups . |
| 3 | The charter says these positions should be filled by people who reflect the population in terms of race , gender , sexuality , and disability . |
| 4 | In other words , a settlement should be achieved by means of a formal undertaking or agreement executed expressly in consideration of the opposition being discontinued ; this may seem obvious but it is surprising how often it is ignored . |
| 5 | This should be supplemented by sales of Linx ink from the company 's new ink manufacturing facility at St Ives in Cornwall and a planned drive to cut production costs . |
| 6 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that his damages should be reduced by 20% . |
| 7 | by the year 2000 , the actual difference in health status between countries and between groups within countries should be reduced by 25% , by improving the level of health of disadvantaged nations and groups . |
| 8 | There can be no relaxation in reviewing , which should be continued by means of a precise programme until the work is well known . |
| 9 | In my view , in these circumstances , there is a clear public interest that the facts should be investigated by means of an inquest . |
| 10 | It has been recommended by the Board and is hereby agreed between the Shareholders of [ name ] Limited ( ‘ the Company ’ ) that steps should be taken by means of the distribution of an Information memorandum ( ‘ the Memorandum ’ ) in the first instance to identified prospective buyers of shares in the capital of the Company , to establish whether an acceptable bid can be obtained either for the whole of the shares in the Company or for the shares held by [ ABC ] Ltd . |
| 11 | The Diocese of Durham has been told that in 1992 budgets must be cut by £120,000 , equivalent to the stipends of nine clergy . |
| 12 | So it 's it 's all in all must be done by staff . |
| 13 | This must be done by people on all levels involved in health-care , including the insurance companies who could save themselves a fortune in claims . |
| 14 | Suppose that the government is able to reduce cash by £1 million ; then with a money multiplier of 10 ( = 1/cash ratio ) , advances must be reduced by £9 million , bringing a total £10 million reduction in deposits and hence in money supply . |
| 15 | Bidding documents , available from the University , cost $200 and all first stage bids must be backed by $10,000 in security . |
| 16 | Moreover , to say that a set of activities and skills partakes of the general discipline of librarianship is not the same thing as saying that all people who have ever been trained as librarians can perform them , or that they must be performed by people whose training is only that of the professional librarian . |
| 17 | Obviously , any improvement in the ratio of domestic savings to GNP will reduce reliance on external finance , and this might be achieved by means of a more efficient and comprehensive domestic banking system . |
| 18 | Consideration should be given to whether the requirement to be mobile could be restricted to particular regions while indicating that faster progression might be achieved by staff who were prepared to be widely mobile . |
| 19 | At such times as it was expedient to run water from the Grand Union Canal into the Grand Junction Canal the passing of that water down from the top to the bottom pond , that is a fall of 56 feet and at the rate of say 2 locks per hour , would represent a gross force of 32 h.p. and this force could be utilized by means of a turbine or otherwise for providing power to work the lift . |
| 20 | Sadly she deceived herself : as the sanitary authorities became convinced that cholera was water-borne and could be checked by means more immediately effective than prayer , public attention became focussed more on the sanitary inspector than on the parson . |
| 21 | Equally a perfectly proper decision on the law and facts taken in proceedings which did not meet the required standards of procedural regularity ( for example , a decision of an SSAT where no reasons for the decision were given ) could be quashed by means of judicial review . |
| 22 | Such plots gave choreographers scope to stage dances in which the world of the flesh could be exemplified by folk style or demi-caractère dances and that of the world of the spirit with the newly developed ‘ flight sur les pointes ’ and softly lyrical ports de bras which epitomised the heroine 's ethereal being . |
| 23 | The depth of the cut could be adjusted by means of a turn-screw which drew back the base plate . |
| 24 | In its latest salvo over equal access to each other 's markets , AT&T Co is telling the US regulatory authorities that the accounting rates — the amount the originator pays the co-respondent for landing a call — between the UK and the US could be cut by 60% : according to the Financial Times , AT&T says British Telecommunications Plc has refused to agree a cut , British Telecom says nonsense , we are still considering it and we will let them know next month ; transatlantic accounting rates have fallen by near 50% over the past two years . |
| 25 | Its case load could be increased by 45pc with only a 14pc increase in its budget . |
| 26 | Counting could be done by means of magpies . |
| 27 | That could be done by means of a supplement to the citizens charter and could be delivered to every household in the country . |
| 28 | If the efficiency of large power stations could be improved by 1% , the nation 's fuel bills would be cut by £36 million . |
| 29 | The West German Finance Minister , Theo Waigel , had told the meeting that the costs of unification could be carried by means of tax revenues resulting from higher than expected economic growth , and in an interview on April 8 he said that , although there would have to be some tax adjustments , the overall tax burden would remain the same . |
| 30 | Then Murry et al reported their improbable observations that an isolated 40-min occlusion in dogs resulted in an infarct whose mass could be decreased by 75% if the animals were pretreated with four cycles of 5-min coronary occlusion plus 5 min of reflow . |