Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a prodigiously deep fissure or cave system in the mass if which has still not been fully explored but which by 1979 had been traced by speleologists to a depth of 4,400 feet . |
| 2 | The research investigates such issues as the number and type of new jobs created on industrial estates , whether such jobs are filled by previously unemployed/or employed workers or school leavers , whether they are filled by migrants to the area and so forth . |
| 3 | Since the 1960s , when a number of new social movements — among them the student movement , various national and ethnic movements , and the women 's movement — became extremely active in political life , a great deal more attention has been given by sociologists to such forms of political action , which may be seen not only as constituting a basis or context for the development of more highly organized political activities , but also as political forces in their own right , existing alongside and sometimes in conflict with , established parties and pressure groups . |
| 4 | It is no wonder our railways are in a mess when they are burdoned by regulations to a far greater extent than any road operator . |
| 5 | Palaces are designed by architects to be looked at rather than lived in . |
| 6 | Both ‘ Gulf Strike ’ and ‘ Butcher of Baghdad ’ claim to have been designed by advisers to the Pentagon . |
| 7 | Problems in the third quarter are reckoned by observers to be mainly due to falling confidence throughout the securities industry in the run-up to Black Wednesday . |
| 8 | The Yes Minister television series obviously deals in caricature , yet it has been said by insiders to be alarmingly close to the realities of the British political system . |
| 9 | Heroin labs are said by Afghans to be in the Chagool mountains , operated by fundamentalist mujahedin commanders belonging to the Hizbe Islami . |
| 10 | The morning rays are said by yogis to be highly charged with prana ( life-force ) and are the most beneficial to health . |
| 11 | Waller 's wife , Susan , and their two small children have been moved by police to a secret address , away from Tyneside , for their own safety . |
| 12 | We shall distinguish attributions as external when made by members of the dominant society to the deeds of members of the microsociety , and as internal when attributions are made by members to deeds of their own or of other members of the microsociety to which they belong . |
| 13 | Congratulations are offered by members to the following whose names are included in the New Year 's Honours List : . |
| 14 | Preparations for tomorrow 's Division Three match at Lincoln City have not been helped by injuries to defender Mel Pejic and striker Steve Watkin in Wednesday 's 3-2 Midland Senior League win over Tranmere . |
| 15 | That weapon has been shown by events to be inadequate . |
| 16 | The conclusion can only be this : that if a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy means the appointment of trade union representation to the boards of companies , then the case for it — always improbable in principle — has been shown by events to be insupportable . |
| 17 | In getting the bombs to where they can be used , air crews are helped by extensions to their senses — infra-red vision , light amplification and radar for night flight — all of which rely on electronics . |
| 18 | These are thought by researchers to be the result of low calcium and magnesium and high aluminium in the brain . |
| 19 | They are people who would like to work but believe no work is available , lack the schooling , training , skills , or experience required by employers , are thought by employers to be too young or too old or who have other personal handicaps in finding a job . |
| 20 | Ours was glancingly Tudorbethan and called ‘ The Oaks ’ ; others had clearly been inspired by visits to Spain and were called ‘ Casa-something-or-other ’ ; one or two bore hints of castellation and crenellation and were appropriately named after some of the statelier English homes ; while Syl 's house had been conceived in a dour Regency style by a less fertile imagination and its grey dressed stones were covered by a great pelt of ivy . |
| 21 | Trade theory seems of little help , for the advances in recent years of understanding how trade might affect national welfare are offset by limits to the theories in their capacity to yield policy advice that can work in practice ( see , for example , Baldwin , 1988 ; Helpman and Krugman , 1989 ) . |
| 22 | Traces of Maltese clothing found in the Lockerbie wreckage had been linked by experts to the suitcase containing the bomb . |
| 23 | This also means that it has been introduced by humans to a lot of places it 's not native to — Indonesian islands , mainly — and it has widely hybridised with the introduced wild boar . |
| 24 | No less a masterwork though , as the military complexes of America and Russia are reduced by circumstances to mere personal bickering while the countdown to global destruction ( and a life of harem-shagging in coal mines for the ‘ lucky ’ survivors ) ticks relentlessly away . |
| 25 | Viruses can also spread if computers are linked by modems to the outside world . |
| 26 | He also issued a little book called Directions for Prayer in the Diocese of Bath and Wells which contained simple prayers to be taught by parents to their children . |
| 27 | Rules and procedures would interfere with this approach but even in their absence an appeal may be made by pupils to a wider understanding of a moral order . |
| 28 | I meant only that this is a matter of your will , and ought to be seen by men to be carried out in your name and at your direction . |
| 29 | Port Le Murray and Port Erin — the Lifeboat to be placed on a cradle with high wheels , to be moved by horses to whichever side of the Calf of Man it is needed . |
| 30 | In other words , structures like that shown in 5.3(a) may on occasions be felt by speakers to be ‘ correct ’ . |