Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the long run , such images become coins of exchange along with pickets , football riots , and urban disturbances ; they populate our consciousness and can be recalled intact by the sheer mention of a single word or by a brief news clip from the past . |
| 2 | She was ready to be lulled asleep by the monotonous chant when they all stood up and repeated , ‘ God the Father , God the Son , and God the Holy Ghost . ’ |
| 3 | Given that by then the teenage assumptions of invulnerability have tended to evaporate , what better time to put away childish things and give up that nasty teenage habit ? |
| 4 | There is a copy of the Church of Scotland Building Committee schedule which shows that the ground for the church was given free by Charles Morrison with a nominal feu duty . |
| 5 | A WWF spokesman justified this by saying they were protecting the habitat as a whole . |
| 6 | Conservative Ministers have explained this by saying that the questions are loaded . |
| 7 | So far the ‘ Dumpwatch ’ surveillance system , established in 1988 by the 16 members of the Economic Community of West African States , has limited this by implementing tough new anti-dumping laws — especially in Ghana , Nigeria and Côte d'Ivoire . |
| 8 | A pregnant employee will be given this by a doctor or midwife . |
| 9 | This was considered preferable by the Law Commission to using a single word to denote either a qualitative standard , such as " good " , or a neutral standard , such as " proper " . |
| 10 | I am close to despair as I think of her — –her hollow eyes haunt me whenever I drift towards sleep being slowly sucked dry by that thing in Pampers . |
| 11 | It seemed clear that anything more than a purely intergovernmental system of consultation and cooperation would be deemed undesirable by Britain . |
| 12 | If the Federated States wanted to join a regional arrangement deemed undesirable by the United States ( a nuclear-free zone treaty , for example ) the latter , although a third party to the negotiations or concluded agreement , could claim under this provision the right to stop them doing so . |
| 13 | Somerville ( 1889 & 1890 ) and Shoolbred ( 1895 & 1899 ) are two other botanists whose publications were considered outstanding by Campbell ( op. cit. ) , while Stirton ( 1885 & 1887 ) and Scott ( 1894 & 1895 ) also made contributions . |
| 14 | To harm or kill a Cobra is considered sacrilegious by many people and such an act can only' bring misfortune . |
| 15 | In one case , it took an additional 21 days before notification was deemed complete by the Commission . |
| 16 | ‘ If she has run away , she 's left every single piece of clothing behind — even her cardigan , so she must be frozen solid by now . ’ |
| 17 | The line of small shops across the way already looked depressed by the opposition . |
| 18 | However , the indigenous church that developed in Egypt was that of the Copts , with their own monophysite doctrine which was deemed heretical by the Byzantine rulers . |
| 19 | I did no work that I can remember — I know I was considered hopeless by my teachers and I was quite ready to believe I was hopeless — I can quite well remember keeping mice at the back of the classroom and I can remember the smell . |
| 20 | If a charter was booked direct by McIllvanney , and not through either the London or the Fort Lauderdale agencies , then the Ulsterman collected the full fifteen per cent commission , which meant that the senator 's jaunt was worth at least eighteen thousand dollars to McIllvanney . |
| 21 | Clearance and redevelopment took their toll in a planning system which decreed that the densities deemed acceptable by the Victorian house builders were not appropriate for the late twentieth century . |
| 22 | Although it bid less than TSW , the latter 's business plan was deemed unviable by the Independent Television Commission with a £16.1m bid . |
| 23 | It is shown that there was very often little to be gained from approaching government institutions with attitudes which would have been considered proper by British administrators . |
| 24 | A few minutes later Wayne McDowell , he played the ball out to brother Gary again , whose hard low cross was scrambled clear by the Almondsbury defence to back to Wayne McDowell whose lob shot ended up resting in the top of the netting . |
| 25 | New : wider seats are being installed in our European Business Class , comfortably spaced 2 by 3 . |
| 26 | These measures are not considered adequate by conservationists . |
| 27 | So , logical and impressive as the associate flower learning of honey bees seems , these hard-working insects appear simply to be well-programmed learning machines , attending only to the cues deemed salient by evolution ( and then only in well-defined contexts and often during precise critical periods ) — and then filing the information thus obtained in pre-existing arrays . |
| 28 | Phil Whelan 's long through ball was booted clear by Spink , but it hit Mick Stockwell and rebounded into the path of Kiwomya , who took careful aim before stroking the ball into an empty net from 20 yards . |
| 29 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 30 | Any sections not reported clear by the time of the arrival of the Fire Service units will result in the Fire Service undertaking to search such areas as an immediate priority . |