Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 2 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 3 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 4 | The hon. Member 's limited range of adjectives will have been noted by everyone in the House . |
| 5 | Why , then , does a contemplation of his life and work leave us feeling zestful rather than discouraged , as if we have been brushed by someone with an incorrigible belief in happiness ? |
| 6 | The minimum wage policy has been condemned by everyone from The Guardian to Goldman Sachs . |
| 7 | In practice it means that the keynote lecture will be given by someone from the New World . |
| 8 | Emphasize the difficulty of saying anything at all with regard to religion which may not be received by someone in a misleading way . |
| 9 | The first programmes for the new Accountancy TV service ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 99 ) can be received by anyone with a TV set . |
| 10 | The words must be uttered by someone with the necessary authority , in a country in which there is a death penalty , to a person who has been convicted of a particular crime ; they must be spoken , not written , at the right time ( at the end of a trial ) and in the right place ( in court ) . |
| 11 | Men of his age can be manipulated by anyone with a ha'p'orth of brains . |
| 12 | ‘ According to present arrangements , he will not be considered by anyone outside the prison service or the Home Office until 1991 . |
| 13 | Soon the seascape seemed to be occupied by nothing but the two great ships clamped together , with a web of men and weapons passing glittering from the one to the other . |
| 14 | Of course , when it came time to write the bill , there were great problems in choosing the exact words to be employed so that it would n't be seen by anyone as a ‘ Euthanasia Bill ’ . |
| 15 | It does not come in an envelope and it could be seen by anyone in the office which may , in itself , help to achieve its purpose . |
| 16 | Data files included punched cards ( as data files , not just for input ) ; the computer was dated , overloaded and likely to be replaced by one from a different manufacturer ; there was little real-time access to data ; management information was scarce ; there was little in the way of computerized records for Polytechnic students on non-modular courses , and that little was unintegrated with the modular system ; there were no benefits or access to data for offices besides the registry ; the file structures could no longer cope with the then size of the course ( 1,100 students ) ; and the data structures were arcane ( for example , over-zealous use of bit-packing ) . |
| 17 | The routine should not be attempted by anyone with a heart condition or high blood pressure . |
| 18 | As part of its expansion , Barratt will open two new subsidiaries a year over the three years of the growth plan , starting in July with one for south London , to be followed by one for the northern part of the capital later . |
| 19 | ‘ We think it will be supported by everybody in the town . |
| 20 | But now , with the campaign against Famagusta looming over him , and the palace full of the wild exhilaration of a conquering army , Nicholas was too occupied to be haunted by anything of the past . |
| 21 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 22 | In essence we 've been hit by something like a double whammy over the S S As . |
| 23 | It 's a hundred and twenty miles — say up to three hours in that little crate — and he could make the night train down , arriving home in the early morning and , with luck , not being recognized by anybody on the trip or at the station , and not disturbing the family . ’ |
| 24 | I knew why , they had the queer sensation that they were being addressed by someone from a bygone age . |
| 25 | S1 always stood out as a unit and these boys , who were always together , were known by everybody in the sample . |
| 26 | The previous day , she had demanded halts at least a dozen times , claiming they were being followed by something in the undergrowth , to the left of their narrow path . |
| 27 | Persuasion based upon religious belief can also be much more compelling and the fact that arguments based upon religious beliefs are being deployed by someone in a very close relationship with the patient will give them added force and should alert the doctors to the possibility — no more — that the patient 's capacity or will to decide has been overborne . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's still working on the theory that they were killed by someone from the neighbourhood who resented them and their prosperity . ’ |
| 29 | L.G. said it must have been sent by someone in the audience who could write shorthand . |
| 30 | I suggest that if David Isaacs hates his job as much as he seems to , then he be replaced by someone with an appreciation of the theatre and a more positive and informative approach . |