Example sentences of "[noun pl] be [vb pp] by the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |
| 2 | The tape was then continued , and after the first few words were uttered by the second voice Lucy almost froze in horror . |
| 3 | Some writers ( Musgrave and Musgrave , 1980 ) have put the two theories together , claiming that in the low range of income workers are motivated by the second effect , but later as basic necessities have been bought , and ‘ social ’ necessities too , then the trade-off between leisure and work becomes dominant and the first effect predominates . |
| 4 | All of these features are contradicted by the second group : string scales range from 13¼ ’ to 14½ ’ ; cases are deeper and more robust ; keyboards are nearly always lime ; and rack guidance is replaced by front rail pins . |
| 5 | On the basis of largely commonsense reasoning , the following argument could be proposed , where the second and third sentences are predicated by the first : Again , it should be stressed that the relationship between the propositions is implicit , the absence of formal connectives forcing readers to infer cause-and-effect relations . |
| 6 | Although Cohen had been successful , the state 's Supreme Court had overturned the result on the grounds that the newspapers were protected by the First Amendment . |
| 7 | Born in Slovenia , Bratina trained with the Austrian Olympic gymnastic team before the 1914 games were cancelled by the First World War . |
| 8 | New cottages were envisaged by the fourth tee but the District council planners objected , so a site alongside the 18th fairway was agreed to a building proceeded . |
| 9 | The Russians were opposed by the Fourth Austro-Hungarian Army ( Archduke Joseph Ferdinand ) just south of the Pripet Marshes with , on its right , the First Army ( von Brlog ) . |
| 10 | Masterpieces by El Greco , Carracci , Murillo and Teniers were secured by the First Duke of Montagu of the second creation and his wife in the mid-eighteenth century , while as Rosamond Savile documents , the celebrated collection of Sèvres was acquired , in an astonishingly short period in 1830–31 , by the Fifth Duke of Buccleuch , who also greatly enriched the holdings of French furniture . |
| 11 | The balance and integration of capacities and skills is achieved by the third attribute of aspirations . |
| 12 | The onset of the cooler hours is announced by the first thuds of tennis balls . |
| 13 | In biblical scholarship Nonconformist ministers were recognized by the last third of the century for their achievements and three — the Wesleyan , W. F. Moulton , the Unitarian , Dr Vance Smith , and the Baptist , Dr Joseph Angus — worked on the Revised Authorised Version between 1870 and 1873 . |
| 14 | Further evidence for schemata is provided by the next task . |
| 15 | DNA types were designated by the first initial of each family surname , and DNA subtypes by the addition of ‘ a ’ or ‘ b ’ ( Table I ) . |
| 16 | His novels were praised by the first Earl of Balfour , and were said to have been the favourite reading of Queen Alexandra . |