Example sentences of "be [verb] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This also means that it is not possible to compare the dissociation from isolated GC sites with that from clusters of such sites which may be stabilised by cooperative interaction . |
| 2 | To account for them by subsidence , it must be assumed that preglacial subsidence was so slow that any breaches could be healed by new coral growth , while the Post-glacial rise of sea level was so rapid that any breaches formed could not be filled . |
| 3 | As to the former , the objects clause in the company 's memorandum of association sets out the activities for which the company has been formed , though these activities may subsequently be altered by special resolution . |
| 4 | If not , they should be altered by special resolution prior to the matter being brought before the court . |
| 5 | However slight the contact may seem to be between certain levels of government policy-making and the work of teaching , managers of education at school level would be better placed if teachers were at least aware that programmes such as those connected with the TVEI can be altered by ministerial will — and can have their funding reduced . |
| 6 | The planning system is designed to provide the reliable , long-term rules by which citizens know their surroundings , and house values , are not going to be altered by sudden development . |
| 7 | This then is a brief résuméof the problems which must be recognized by any indexer and for which the index must allow . |
| 8 | This is a fact that must be recognized by any teacher or any school who thinks seriously of embarking on graded tests as a means of supplementing , and perhaps ultimately supplanting , GCSE and A level examinations . |
| 9 | The regulations will be policed by Environmental Health officers and factory inspectors , and any employers not complying could be prosecuted . |
| 10 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 11 | People 's natural prejudices may be aroused by this prospect alone , sufficiently for the idea to be rejected , but it must be made clear why EMU is undesirable for Britain and for Europe . |
| 12 | As he points out , a large part of the former Soviet Union 's food shortages could be eased by better packaging of agricultural products . |
| 13 | Physical distress or mental depression might be eased by better treatment . |
| 14 | The care for the poor was not to be undertaken by private charity as and when people decided to give but was to be organised by the society . |
| 15 | Alternatively , major capital projects would be undertaken by private sector contractors who would finance and build the assets in question , operate them for a specified period in return for an agreed fee and then transfer them to the commissioning authority . |
| 16 | The move must be undertaken by professional removal contractors and completed within three days . |
| 17 | When it comes to access to polling stations this will require accessibility audits to be undertaken by electoral returning officers . |
| 18 | The first M constraints express the fact that each individual undertakes exactly one task and the second M constraints say that each task should be undertaken by one individual . |
| 19 | It is logical that the United States should do whatever it is able to do to assist in the return of normal economic health in the world , without which there can be no political stability and no assured peace … there must be some agreement among the countries of Europe as to the requirements of the situation and the part those countries themselves will take in order to give proper effect to whatever action might be undertaken by this government . |
| 20 | Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion . |
| 21 | Whatever the overall trend , the steps from one class to the next were so abrupt that they could not be explained by gradual transmutation . |
| 22 | These results could be explained by subjective risk causing the focusing of attention in driving with a consequent enhancement of memory for central details at the expense of memory for peripheral details . |
| 23 | This may in part be explained by one half of the reciprocity taking the form of labour services and trade in consumables ; a large proportion of the goods which may be considered of high value by reason of the distance over which the raw materials had been transported , and their resulting rarity , may have been given for services , gifts or payments for work , what may be termed institutional exchange . |
| 24 | The high incidence in Seascale occurred over an extended period , and we are not sure whether this could be explained by Kinlen hypothesis . |
| 25 | Editor , — Unfortunately , the emerging epidemic of cardiovascular disease in developing countries can not be explained by selective quotation or wishful thinking . |
| 26 | It can not be explained by conventional theory , including the mechanisms presented here and that of Runcorn , unless N R ( R N ) paths along the E rim are accompanied by R N ( N R ) paths around the antipodal path . |
| 27 | e.g. " How far can the origins of ( the First World War in 1914 ) be explained by German policy from 1898 ? assessment |
| 28 | The reports of statues actually ‘ breathing , and ‘ speaking ’ may be explained by this understanding . |
| 29 | But not all the remaining convergence can be explained by this process and it has been suggested that the rest has been accommodated by the lateral movement of blocks of continental lithosphere along east-west trending strike-slip faults to the north of the Tibetan Plateau in Mongolia and western China ( Fig. 3.24 ) . |
| 30 | The attractions of Dworkin 's thesis can possibly be explained by this need for a new unitary formulation of legal theory — the irony , of course , is that Dworkin shares with other approaches this simplified view of today 's society . |