Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 2 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 3 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 6 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 7 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 8 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 9 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 10 | All the interviewees were asked what moved them to experiment with heroin in the first instance The largest group ( 33 per cent ) first tried heroin out of curiosity which , in most of the cases , had been aroused by the previous use of other drugs . |
| 11 | In all three Baltic republics , and in the southern republic of Moldavia ( which like them had been annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940 ) , separatism was the dominant election issue . |
| 12 | Appeals to the House of Lords are heard by the Appellate Committee of the House , which consists of those members of the House qualified to deal with its judicial business . |
| 13 | Mr Louis-Dreyfus , who has taken a 15 per cent stake in the new company , has been joined by the UK-based investment company , Coatbridge Holdings with 15 per cent whilst an unnamed investment fund , which is advised by the US money-center bank Citibank , has taken 19.9 per cent . |
| 14 | In my judgment , provided the specified precondition is met , the only limitations on the type of order that can be made under section 6(2) that are justified by the statutory language are that the order must be intended to restore all the parties to the transaction to their respective former positions and that the steps directed by the order to be taken must be reasonably capable of doing so . |
| 15 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 16 | The Southport woman is one of many people believed to have been tricked by the 38-year-old Glaswegian who masterminded a sting from a car showroom in Rufford , near Ormskirk . |
| 17 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 18 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 19 | She had been sustained by the stray wolf . |
| 20 | Our discussion of such surveys both at the national and local level lead us on to examine the impact of crime on women and ethnic minorities , and to a broader consideration of how these groups are treated by the criminal justice system . |
| 21 | While the younger members of the family are treated by the British press and public as stock characters in some soap opera , when one of them speaks , on architecture , AIDS or literacy , the news media none the less report their comments seriously . |
| 22 | These dividends are treated by the Inland Revenue as net dividends to shareholders . |
| 23 | All prosecutions are undertaken by the public prosecutor , the Lord Advocate , or his subordinates , the procurators fiscal . |
| 24 | ‘ The composition listens for the listener … [ both ] are kneaded by the same mode of production … [ creating ] a pre-established harmony … between production and consumption … |
| 25 | No less than 20 different diameter rods , from 1.5mm ( 1/16in ) up to 312.8mm ( 11/4 in ) , are listed by the largest manufacturer in the UK , R.B.J. Reinforced Plastics Ltd . |
| 26 | Japan 's economic structure has , for the last century , been distinguished by the continuing existence of a limited number of very large producers and a very large number of very small producers . |
| 27 | For while he goes to some lengths to avoid formulating a question which presupposes the distinction between subject and object , he is frankly concerned to provide an answer ( and hence a question ) which will be compatible with the claim that social changes are overdetermined by the complex whole , and which will therefore embody a particular view of the production of knowledge . |
| 28 | Elchibey was equivocal on Azerbaijan 's continued membership of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ) , which had never been ratified by the Supreme Soviet . |
| 29 | The National Reconciliation Document encapsulating the Taif Accords , which had been ratified by the Lebanese parliament on Nov. 5 , 1989 , had stated that the Syrian forces would assist the Lebanese government " to extend the authority of the Lebanese state within a limited period not exceeding two years after the ratification of the National Reconciliation Document , the election of the President of the Republic , the formation of the Government of Reconciliation and the adoption of the political reforms constitutionally " . |
| 30 | Credit rationing in the UK has not been favoured by The Conservative government of the 1980s and early 1990s . |