Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] by [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ John has a better chance of being released if the kidnappers realize there is nothing to be gained by hanging on to him . |
| 2 | I had a damp cigarette in the shelter of a doorway — but there was nothing to be gained by hanging about here and I set off , squelching at every step , along the road to Shiel Bridge . |
| 3 | Likewise Caroline Bynum , in Holy Feast , Holy Fast , her book about medieval women religious , pours a rigorous historian 's scorn on the idea that the extreme penitential fastings of some of these women can really be diagnosed as anorexic , or as any other sort of neurosis ( as proposed for example by Rudolph Bell in Holy Anorexia ) : not merely are the case histories inadequate , but these women 's understanding of their bodies , of their relationship to Christ , of their right to participate in his sufferings , of their sense of identity , their very selves , was formed in a social environment so different from our own that nothing is to be gained by reading off their lives in this way rather than exploring in proper detail what it was they did feel and think . |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing to be gained by opening up this particular Pandora 's box , ’ he added . |
| 5 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 6 | Basically they can add or subtract , and anything more complicated than this has to be achieved by breaking down the more elaborate procedures down to a sometimes large number of successive steps . |
| 7 | They often pay a higher pension , based on 1/60th for each year of service rather than l/80th , but the tax-free lump sum has to be bought by giving up part of your pension . |
| 8 | The system of adjudication was to be improved by setting out clearly the roles of presenting officer and tribunal clerk . |
| 9 | The fun to be had by larking about at school would be a contrast with the grind of labouring jobs . |
| 10 | Some wits even suggested that the answer to the labour shortage which the ‘ total war ’ measures were seeking to combat was to be found by closing down the Propaganda Ministry and combing out Party offices . |
| 11 | Insulin prevents the rise in blood sugar which would adversely affect brain function and cause sugar to be wasted by spilling over into the urine . |
| 12 | Under the new act these problems were to be addressed by setting up coordinating budget committees in the House and the Senate , drawing up a realistic timetable for dealing with the budget and establishing a Congressional Budget Office that would provide the staff and expertise necessary for dealing with the budget responsibly . |