Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far as observation and knowledge of the world is concerned , the beliefs of the northern peoples have been dismissed equally by the Russian Orthodox Church and by the Communists as benighted superstition which imprisoned them mentally in a fear of evil spirits . |
| 2 | Hu Jiwei had been recalled earlier by the Sichuan provincial people 's congress for his " illegal role in the turmoil " of May and June 1989 when he had attempted to call an emergency meeting of the NPC Standing Committee . |
| 3 | It looked like Postine had been crushed instantly by the collapsing temple . |
| 4 | Their qualifications are validated either by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BACIFHE ) or by one of the independent professional bodies such as the National Council for Drama Training or the Council for Dance Education , or are the college 's own non-validated certificates or diplomas . |
| 5 | The miracle accounts have been developed both by the early Church and the Evangelists to say something important about Jesus . |
| 6 | While this treatment remains at the experimental stage , may I suggest that the logical position is that prospective patients who have been referred onward by the general practitioner and consultant should be selected — probably by Professor Hitchcock himself — and financed centrally as part of the experimental budget ? |
| 7 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 8 | Visitors were allowed entry only in batches of 200 ; no sketches or notes were permitted on the premises ; future directors were obliged by her will to live in situ , on the fourth floor ( a rule which has been broken only by the present director ) . |
| 9 | On 3 April , Raybestos denied in a statement that any irregularities had taken place : ‘ The condition of the waste disposal site has been checked frequently by the proper authorities , Cork County Council and the IIRS . |
| 10 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 11 | No profession wor-thy of the name has ever been impelled merely by the monetary reward . |
| 12 | People are attracted more by the larger towns which ‘ take off ’ , growing rapidly in size . |
| 13 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |
| 14 | They complained pursuant to section 83(1) of and paragraph 1 of Part III of Schedule 12 to , the Act to the first defendant , the ombudsman appointed under the Building Societies Ombudsman Scheme set up under the Act that their valuations had been prepared negligently by the professional valuers , who in each case were employees of the plaintiff societies , who were all members of the scheme . |
| 15 | It had been prepared originally by the secret society he had joined two years earlier after being forced off his own rice lands for nonpayment of taxes , and he had copied it out dozens of times already in trying to win new recruits for the society in remote jungle villages far from Saigon . |
| 16 | The waters of the world 's oceans are tugged outwards by the gravitational pull of the moon : a hill of water forms in the middle of the ocean when the moon is appropriately positioned above it . |
| 17 | In such assemblies the individual piece-parts are related simply by the geometric relationships that occur by accident or are required by design . |
| 18 | This technique has been applied extensively by the present project to the problem of discriminating between different candidate words in a single sentential position ( rather than different senses of the same word ) . |
| 19 | Tides are destroyers and creators of coastlines — nibbling here , building there ; it is odd to think that our coasts are shaped largely by the gravitational energy of the moon . |
| 20 | The ceremony , in the FMLN stronghold of Perquín in the north-eastern province of Morazán , was witnessed by Nicaragua 's Deputy Interior Minister and the chief of military intelligence , and by the Nicaraguan and Mexican ambassadors , whose presence had been accepted reluctantly by the Salvadorean government . |
| 21 | The adoral shields are overlain proximally by the oral shield but distally slightly widened , and in large specimens separate the oral shield from the first lateral arm plate . |
| 22 | An ever increasing flow of economic data has been matched only by the multifarious ways in which it can be interpreted and applied in relation to economic policy . |
| 23 | Bilingualism arises when two or more languages are used alternately by the same speaker . |
| 24 | There is abundant evidence from a number of studies which shows that , apart from health visitors , these services are used more by the higher socio-economic groups . |
| 25 | The debate has been marred only by the snide remarks of the hon. Member for Bolton , North-East ( Mr. Thurnham ) about my hon. Friend the Member for Tottenham ( Mr. Grant ) . |
| 26 | In many cases several reasons for admission were stated ; clients are classified above by the prime reason as stated by the development officers . |
| 27 | It remained in the possession of the Stewarts until the reign of James V , in the first half of the 16th century , and is likely to have been used occasionally by the royal family when they were visiting Ayrshire . |
| 28 | The large engine house built for a pumping engine at Friars Goose colliery has been preserved here by the local authority . |
| 29 | On Dec. 13 Landsbergis had announced that a further round of preliminary consultations had been postponed indefinitely by the Soviet side . |
| 30 | This did not imply , however , that they had necessarily been approved either by the European Parliament or by the various national parliaments and the Commission complained that Italy had implemented fewer than half of them . |