Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] be [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 7.6.3.5 the rebuilding or reinstating is prevented by war act of God , government action [ strike lock-out ] or |
| 2 | Land worked on a co-operative basis in the controlled zones has either been expropriated from the large landowners who fled when the FMLN forces took over or has been donated by middle or small range campesino families . |
| 3 | Fyodor Kuzmin , the commander of the Baltic Military District , ordered Lithuanian deserters from the Red Army to return to their units within four days or face being returned by force . |
| 4 | Arfon Borough Council is keen to explore the possibility of leasing houses which owners are unable to sell or have been repossessed by building societies . |
| 5 | Any hollows or unevenness indicate either that they have been badly laid or have been affected by subsidence . |
| 6 | The provisions that make this £150 " discrepancy " potentially chargeable are : ( i ) s 19 TA 1988 , the Schedule E income tax charging provision ; and ( ii ) s 162 TA 1988 , which can apply the " notional loan " provisions of s160 to a situation where Newco acquires shares in Target and persons " connected " with Newco , namely management , are or have been employed by Target and/or are about to be employed by Newco , and the Target shares are acquired at an under-value in pursuance of a right or opportunity available by reason of management 's employment . |
| 7 | Mary was born in the Netherlands and has been fascinated by heraldry since she was about 11 . |
| 8 | But Craven is already in his eighties and has been plagued by ill-health for some time . |
| 9 | Capital transfer tax was abolished in the 1986 Budget and has been replaced by inheritance tax which , for those who can remember it , seems largely modelled on the old estate duty . |
| 10 | And the final reflection which suggests itself is that if this pattern of behaviour should prove to be normal , it should be assumed — at least until the contrary is demonstrated — that it is beneficial and has been evolved by trial and error as a preservative device or mechanism . |
| 11 | But additionally , and given the enormous importance attached to the equilibration of dignity , not surprisingly , we find reference to a form of self-arbitration , where what they have said and done is judged by reference to their own conceptions of their integrity and dignity , regardless of ‘ popular ’ opinion or the arbitration of specific others . |
| 12 | The International Atomic Energy Agency requires flasks used for transporting spent fuel to be designed to survive the impact of a 9-m fall — equivalent to an impact of 30 mph — and to survive being engulfed by fire for 30 minutes at a temperature of 800 deg . |
| 13 | His only modern biographer suggests that he spent his last days in extreme poverty at an advanced age , an ironical end for someone who had accounted meticulously for the handling of millions of pounds and had been listed by name in an Act of Parliament . |
| 14 | The relationships between coalification and oil and gas formation are well known and have been described by M. Teichmüller ( 1971 ) , Bartenstein and R. Teichmüller ( 1974 ) , Tissot and Welte ( 1978 ) , Hunt ( 1979 ) , Héroux et al. ( 1979 ) and M. Teichmüller ( 1982 ) . |
| 15 | Common cavity episodes have been described and evaluated in detail elsewhere , and have been shown by fluoroscopy to be due to oesophageal body distention with gas . |
| 16 | The decision to go ahead was made two years ago , but has been prevented by opposition led by the local Anchuranas Defence Co-ordination . |