Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE UK 's previously disparate regions are suffering an identity crisis after being ravaged by the recession , a major survey shows today . |
| 2 | A draft law lifting the ban on political parties was passed by the National Assembly after being approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate on July 5 and 23 respectively . |
| 3 | An estimated 7,000 people have ‘ disappeared ’ after being seized by the army and right-wing death squads . |
| 4 | Crocodiles digest all the mineral matter in bones , leaving the soft organic residues that decay rapidly after being voided by the crocodile . |
| 5 | As Great Britain 's top Olympic hope , Dodson faltered in the second round in Barcelona last summer , beaten by the scales after being forced by the ABA to fight as a welterweight . |
| 6 | Boyd 's team visited the ten pits after being told by the President of the Board of Trade , Michael Heseltine , to establish whether British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 7 | Nobody knew how much they burrowed into one 's past , and this ignorance coupled with a fear of being rejected by the Legion was enough to make most people tell the truth . |
| 8 | The United Kingdom was an original party to the Convention but did not accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the Commission and Court until 1965 and then only for a three-year term which , however , has so far been regularly renewed although not without some hesitancy prompted by the embarrassment and ignominy of being condemned by the Court on a number of occasions . |
| 9 | Then once having disposed of the bogus Robert Gravier , the real Mr G. could live on his swindled millions without fear of being chased by the law or his many creditors . |
| 10 | Britain 's potential for generating wind energy , which is the highest in Europe , is in danger of being neglected by the government , according to Friends of the Earth . |
| 11 | It seems that Napoleon III briefly entertained the idea of being crowned by the pope , as his uncle had been , but Pius IX showed little enthusiasm for this scheme . |
| 12 | Instead of being inherited by the process of Mendelian genetics , it is ‘ inherited ’ by imitation . |
| 13 | Although one consequence of their detached status was that the Commissioners tended to be remote from the day to day process of policy formulation in the higher echelons of the Home Office , they had the advantage of being perceived by the Prison Service as providing a collective leadership in which the professional element in the service could and did play a significant part . |
| 14 | They remained , therefore , on the outskirts of the town , until , terrified of being crushed by the mob , they decided to seek refuge in the open fields , but they had hardly agreed on this when fresh ash clouds , denser than ever , overwhelmed them and brought total darkness . |
| 15 | He knew we could n't abide his ways , and he was sure one of us was going to take a hack at him , so he begged for the honour of being killed by the enemy instead . ’ |
| 16 | That 's the one that 's the one danger that I see , that instead of being led by the turnover of the product , we 're being led by the funding we can obtain which I think is a is a weakness in the system . |
| 17 | And second , perhaps even more subtle than the dangers of making misjudgements about the early ulema and hierarchy under the influence of the distinctive character of the later hierarchy , one must avoid the danger of being led by the nature of the biographies themselves to dehumanize the ulema , a danger present in all the sources hut perhaps particularly in Ata'i . |
| 18 | Preparation of an internal control questionnaire in which the auditor devises a series of questions to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a system and to test whether an objective of control is capable of being met by the system . |
| 19 | Senhora Neto-Kiambata had the honour of being received by The Prince of Wales and The Prince Edward . |
| 20 | BUCKINGHAM PALACE 6 October : Brigadier RW Morris ( Representative Honorary Colonel of the Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps ) and Mrs Morris had the honour of being received by The Queen . |
| 21 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 22 | I had no idea how long we were going to be at Lille , or whether I stood any chance of being accepted by the Legion at all . |
| 23 | Mutual distrust in Germany had , it is clear , bred a situation in which each side 's peace proposals had no chance of being accepted by the other . |
| 24 | This has placed the Institute in the position of being seen by the majority of its members and the public as inept ’ . |
| 25 | He collects it from the door when it arrives to spare her the embarrassment of being seen by the boy . |
| 26 | This makes it highly soluble and capable of being absorbed by the body . |
| 27 | This reduces the likelihood of being swayed by the heat of the negotiating battle and of accepting a deal which , with hindsight , should have been rejected . |
| 28 | Obviously the media type must be capable of being supported by the unit . |
| 29 | Instead of being supported by the teaching staff , I was criticised for my actions , and consequently decided it would be best to keep quiet about such incidents during my training , as I knew any real change could only be made from within the profession . |
| 30 | Amendment thirty-one confirms that a chairman of a police authority will be elected by the authority itself , instead of being appointed by the Home Secretary As Noble Lord , Lord has already said . |