Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gap in services has been filled by child minders who at their best can offer a high quality of care with all the advantages of a domestic setting similar to the children 's own home , but because of the lack of resources , training and support for their work are often the last resort for parents . |
| 2 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 3 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 4 | N-E FEARS that tumbling property rents in London could lead companies to think again about relocating from the South-East have been dismissed by property agent Grimley JR Eve . |
| 5 | The complaint of Admiral Vernon , in a parliamentary speech of 1749 , that ‘ our fleets , which are defrauded by injustice , are first manned by violence and maintained by cruelty ’ , was substantially justified . |
| 6 | The degree of portasystemic shunting in cirrhosis has also been examined by scintigraphy , however per rectal administration of the radionuclide is required . |
| 7 | Contemporaries feared a repetition of 1918 , when post-war educational reform ( the Fisher Act ) had been stopped by depression and government limits on spending . |
| 8 | ‘ This controversy has been tainted by racism parading as a concern for the adolescents ’ welfare , ’ says Boudjema . |
| 9 | President Carlos Salinas de Gortari , in his fourth state of the nation address broadcast on Nov. 1 , made several indirect references to opposition party claims that state elections held during the year had been tainted by fraud , allegedly perpetrated by the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) . |
| 10 | Poindexter 's conviction was quashed in a split two-to-one judgement on the grounds that the recollection of trial witnesses had been tainted by testimony which he had given before Congress under immunity in 1987 . |
| 11 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 12 | These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses . |
| 13 | Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group . |
| 14 | Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate . |
| 15 | FreeHand is still there but it has now been joined by Illustrator 88 . |
| 16 | They had been joined by Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander Andrew Grierson . |
| 17 | Over the last 20 years Derek 's collection of rare breeds has been joined by bronze- and black-feathered birds . |
| 18 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 19 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 20 | A similar problem may arise where orders are placed by telephone , or at trade fairs , over lunch and so on . |
| 21 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |
| 22 | In a nation where rank is everything , and everything is ranked , these ‘ yuppiewhites ’ are placed by Japanese at the top of the gaijin pecking order . |
| 23 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 24 | Plans for the service , which will cost about US$ 1 million in the first year , have been delayed by lack of funds . |
| 25 | A considerable investment has been made in the redevelopment of the Piper field , which achieved first oil in February 1993 , having been delayed by construction schedule slippages and bad weather at the end of 1992 . |
| 26 | Willie Carson , Rock City 's rider , has a significant ride to start of the afternoon when he partners Nashwan 's half-brother , Mukddaam ( 1.30 ) , on his first racecourse appearance , which has been delayed by injury and hard ground . |
| 27 | The bills , which included measures to restructure the country 's military leadership and reorganize the broadcasting media , had been delayed by opposition filibustering which had led to outbreaks of fighting in the Assembly as a result of which two members were hospitalized . |
| 28 | The budget debate had been delayed by opposition demands for an investigation into the government 's role in the various scandals . |
| 29 | A controversial plan for a bypass around Aylesbury has been delayed by county councillors . |
| 30 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |