Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Be on the look-out when Pelagianism sets in : ‘ Thou shalt be justified by good works ’ , by doing the vicar 's mall , by the way you read the lessons , by the work you do towards the Christmas bazaar ! |
| 2 | This is based on history and clinical signs , but should be confirmed by faecal examinations from a large sample of the flock . |
| 3 | The pharmacodynamic effect of psyllium should be confirmed by longterm therapeutic trials . |
| 4 | To remedy these grievances it was enacted that the Charter of the Forest was to be kept in all its articles , that the perambulations made in the time of Edward I were to be observed , that those perambulations which still remained to be made should be made as quickly as possible , and that the forest boundaries in each county should be confirmed by royal charters , as laid down in the perambulations . |
| 5 | During the term of office of the third chief executive , a referendum would be held to decide whether the chief executive should be selected by general election . |
| 6 | What does seem important is that discussions on surrogacy , as on other aspects of reproductive biology , should be put on a more rational basis , and that codes of practice should be regulated by professional bodies , and not by the criminal law . |
| 7 | Opinion , the paper reports , is moving in favour of the idea that in future self-management communities of interest should be regulated by general laws instead of by social compacts , which have practically no authority , legal or otherwise . |
| 8 | During the peri-operative period pressure sore should be prevented by regular changes of position . |
| 9 | National armaments should be limited by mutual agreement , and the pressures of the military-industrial complex regulated by nationalization of armaments firms and control over the arms trade . |
| 10 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 11 | British trade unionists have therefore been pushing for a slightly different wording that European Works Council Representatives should be elected by current workers ' representatives wherever they exist . |
| 12 | The constitutional commission had also agreed that the country 's President should be elected by direct universal suffrage . |
| 13 | Parliament and government should be elected by popular vote , or a weighted version of it , but once elected , the people should accept that an assembly of " the best and wisest men in the nation " will make better decisions than the people themselves . |
| 14 | They also declared that the president of the republic should be elected by universal suffrage . |
| 15 | On the basis of these and similar findings , it has been suggested that in cases of small tumours up to 1 cm in diameter , endoscopic removal or local excision would be sufficient , but that larger or numerous carcinoid tumours should be treated by gastric resection or gastrectomy with removal of regional lymph notes . |
| 16 | and advice should be sought by creative arts teachers when they are preparing programmes from special needs , special interest multi-school or multi-ethnic organisations other departments and from parents with special experience , knowledge and skills . |
| 17 | The crucial point is that such expressions should be warranted by conceptual and communicative purposes recognized as having point in classroom activity . |
| 18 | The law reportedly came in response to recommendations by the United States authorities that controls on cash transactions similar to those in force in the USA should be adopted by other industrialized countries . |
| 19 | At an informal meeting in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , on the weekend of Sept. 21-22 the 12 Finance Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) together with their central bank presidents made progress in negotiations on economic and monetary union ( EMU ) , agreeing that the decision on the start of " stage three " should be made by unanimous agreement of all 12 heads of state and government , rather than by majority decision . |
| 20 | The first is top-up payments , which the hon. Member for Birkenhead recommends should be made by local offices ; the second is the reintroduction of housing benefit . |
| 21 | The detection of water stress should be demonstrated by controlled experiments . |
| 22 | Supposing , for simplicity , we are concerned only with two years , price this year should be determined by short-run marginal cost ( a view not endorsed by the 1967 White Paper — see section 4.4 ) , but investment plans for next year should be evaluated ( using net present value methods ) based upon long-run marginal costs . |
| 23 | The UK government , which currently levied a standard 17.5 per cent VAT rate , maintained that " taxation should be determined by national parliaments " and that the rate between EC countries should be regulated by market forces . |
| 24 | The art of palpating for a pyloric mass should be taught by experienced senior staff to junior staff and students . |
| 25 | It used to be the custom that the issue of the writ should be moved by chief whip of the party in the House of Commons a member of which had held the seat prior to its vacation , but this practice was occasionally the subject of abuse by the moving party being reluctant , by reason of its unpopularity in the country and consequent fear of being humiliated in a poll , Constituents in one instance were left unrepresented for over nine months . |
| 26 | The argument for the other camp , that the message could have record status ran thus : — lack of control over who uses personal accounts to send or read messages should be governed by strict and well enforced organisational procedures . |
| 27 | The documentation should be written by Taxonomic Computing staff , with input from the Computer Support Officer in his training role . |
| 28 | The refined carbohydrates — white flour , rice and pasta — should be replaced by wholemeal versions . |
| 29 | In this I had the enthusiastic support of the Prime Minister who believed that the state scheme should be replaced by individual private pension provision with a minimum compulsory requirement . |
| 30 | The main spine cabling should be replaced by optical fibre cabling , which has much higher data transmission rates , is more flexible , and is electrically safer . |