Example sentences of "be [verb] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most defendants in capital cases are black and they can not afford legal representation , so they are assigned counsel by the state . |
| 2 | For a differential drill they are placed side by side and drilled across to highlight the difference between them . |
| 3 | These arguments are given credibility by Pareto 's ambiguous reaction to the rise of Italian fascism , and by Michels ' conversion from a socialist syndicalist espousing the use of a general strike before the First World War to an enthusiastic apologist for fascism in the 1920s ( Beetham , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | Until mid-December , Barbier-Beltz continues to show work by Patrick Dubrac — constructions whose heterogeneous elements are given unity by a lick of white paint — and by Jean-Loup Trassard , whose photographs record the immutable aspects of nature . |
| 5 | For each of us ( it is said ) our lives are given sense by certain projects , whether it be that of being a certain sort of person , or of achieving something in such fields as the political , or cultural , or in our personal relations . |
| 6 | This is to say that linguistic ( as well as social ) activities become significant because they are given significance by all participants — not only the " speaker " . |
| 7 | Already , independent specialist consultants are helping farmers by walking fields and assisting with advice for strategies of control . |
| 8 | KWS Knitwear Design is an asset for many home computer users who are knitting clothes by hand or machine . |
| 9 | KWS Knitwear Design is an asset for many home computer users who are knitting clothes by hand or machine . |
| 10 | In California , New Orleans , San Francisco and a dozen centres all over the States , tranquility-seekers are zapping stress by plugging in to brain gyms . |
| 11 | Third , the ‘ New English ’ settlers who had been given land by the Tudors in a number of plantations . |
| 12 | She 'd have been given help by the Lord Chancellor 's Department , and her costs would have been minimal . |
| 13 | The pollution claims have been given credibility by the Colombian health ministry , which has declared a large area around the mind " uninhabitable " because of the accumulation of toxic waste . |
| 14 | Interviewed on BBC Radio 4 , Andrew Lees of Friends of the Earth declared , ‘ I have been given clearance by my Board to seek a judicial review … we are very serious about this issue and are going to go for it . ’ |
| 15 | Paula Bale , the Fijian-born Canterbury winger who played for New Zealand in Suva last weekend and was in the All Blacks ' squad for the RWC Sevens at Murrayfield from 16-18 April , has been given clearance by the NZRFU to represent Fiji — proof , yet again , of what a farcical situation the present haphazard laws on international eligibility place the game . |
| 16 | The new advice centre in Hammond Drive has been given £2,000 by the TSB Foundation towards the cost of a project officer . |
| 17 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 18 | Mr O'Connor produced letters dated last May from the Dishonoured Cheque Register , whose client Texas Homecare had been given cheques by Mr Round for £117.46 and £81.98 . |
| 19 | Nor would such a study have been given permission by the RUC , for it is utopian to expect police authorities in divided societies to open up these sections of their force to scrutiny and observation by outsiders . |
| 20 | For many years , no outside organisation had been given permission by the Vietnamese government to establish themselves in their country . |
| 21 | While those in Canada are pushed around , those on the other side of the border have been given permission by Washington to run bingo halls , the only legitimate gambling in the area . |
| 22 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 23 | The captain had been given permission by his superiors in Hamburg to sail for any port which would accept his passengers . |
| 24 | The opposition groups , ranging from social democrats and liberals to Christians , nationalists and anarchists , had been given permission by the Moscow city council and the USSR Council of Ministers to march after the official parade organized by the trade unions , apparently to pre-empt the holding of a larger unofficial demonstration which might have clashed with the official parade . |
| 25 | Friends of the Earth has been given permission by the High Court to pursue a legal case against the government over the level of pesticides in drinking water in the Thames and Anglian regions . |
| 26 | Russell Ferrante has been given permission by the High Court to ask for a second inquest into his son 's death . |
| 27 | The students had been given permission by Darlington council to unearth what they hoped would be important medieval remains in Clark 's Yard , Darlington . |
| 28 | Action Harrogate , the campaign to improve standards and attract new business to Harrogate , has been given £1,000 by the Hotels , Guest Houses and Restaurants Association . |
| 29 | The loneliness many older people experience has been given respectability by certain social theories which either seek to give , or are interpreted as , an explanation for the isolation of older people . |
| 30 | ‘ History ’ has been given prominence by the New Historicists , while for some graduate students and younger academics ‘ politics ’ has come to seem , as the Goldsmiths Professor at Oxford lately remarked to me , a kind of vital protein , without which a literary work is fatally impoverished . |