Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv prt] by [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The significant feature of privatization has been that the transformation has usually been carried out by broadly the same teams that had worked under nationalization . |
| 2 | We now suspect he had been written off by both the consul and the Spanish authorities at an early stage . |
| 3 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 4 | At the same time he was turned down by both the Civil Service and the Foreign Office . |
| 5 | Generally , drink-driving was frowned on by both the ‘ safe ’ and ‘ unsafe ’ drivers ; it often happened only when there was no other way to get home . |