Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Husam eddin rejects the story of the quarrel and the dating of Molla Fenari 's departure in the reign of Bayezid I , asserting that Karaman had been wholly taken over by the Ottomans in 793/1391 while the documents ( dated 796,802 and 804 ) show Molla Fenari 's period of office as kadi to have fallen after that date ; and he says rather that Molla Fenari returned to Karaman with Karamanoglu Mehmed Bey in early 805/summer 1402 , following the battle of Ankara ( Dhu " l-Hijja 804/July 1402 ) , when the latter was freed and reinstated by Timur and Karaman reconstituted as an independent state . |
| 2 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 3 | Even Dmitri 's sorrow had been mostly used up by the fading of his father 's life , remorselessly , year by year . |
| 4 | It was not that I eventually doubted that the Almighty responded to faith , but that because I had been so bound up by the desert , so full of self-interest , so neglectful of the God I was supposed to serve , that I could not have expected any co-operation from him . |
| 5 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 6 | Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements : |
| 7 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 8 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 9 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 10 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 11 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 12 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 13 | A sudden upsurge to 3,500 on Dec. 31-Jan. 1 was reportedly prompted by a rumour that the Greek authorities were going to seal the border , and on Jan. 2 a Greek government spokesman alleged that the rumour had been deliberately put about by the Albanian authorities in an attempt to rid the country of the Greek minority , which numbered nearly 59,000 according to the 1989 census . |
| 14 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 15 | These have been partly filled in by the composer himself , but though the extra music written for Act 1 in the 1693 revival is included , neither ‘ When I have often heard ’ nor ‘ O let me weep ’ [ the famous Plaint ] … is to be found in it . |
| 16 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 17 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 18 | On the whole , most of us lead very sedentary lives these days and are often put off by the thought of taking exercise . |
| 19 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
| 20 | What work was done in the United Kingdom on raiding and amphibious operations had been mainly carried out by the Inter-Service Training and Development Centre ( ISTDC ) and the Royal Marines ' Mobile Naval Base Defence Organisation ( MNBDO ) , the Royal Navy being responsible for amphibious operations . |
| 21 | The waterfall is usually held to be slowly flattened out by the erosion of the river so that the new section of the profile occupies successively the positions 1 to 6 ( Fig. 9.10A ) . |
| 22 | Somehow we survived it all , just as I have survived 20 years of a lead-piped water supply and a further 20 years as an adult working in a concrete hut insulated on the inside with sprayed-on asbestos ; to say nothing of a like period supervising students using the Haldane gas analysis apparatus , a machine that not infrequently spewed mercury from its taps into the air , whence it fell onto the bench , or sometimes the floor , to be duly swept up by the lab boy at the end of the session for recovery . |
| 23 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |
| 24 | If you are a purist , you may be somewhat put off by the lame , if not sticky English translations of words in Bach 's Cantatas Nos. 201 & 68 , but do n't be , for the exceeding purity of Dame ‘ Bella 's ’ voice overcomes all . |
| 25 | Maybe , I thought , Ash would be so turned on by the sounds of frantic coupling emanating from Gav and Aunt Janice in the bedroom that she 'd tear my clothes off . |
| 26 | I certainly want teachers to respond closely to the situation in which they are — but they need to be clear about the overall function of RE , what it is about , in order to respond in a way which is meaningful so as not to be just taken over by the latest influence . |
| 27 | Whatever you decide , you 'll be suitably bowled over by the excellent quality however much you 're paying . |
| 28 | This type of contravention of the offence will be gradually phased out by the new ‘ life ’ licences , although such offences could be committed by 70 year olds , provisional licence holders on expiry of such a licence and people suffering from certain disabilities who can only hold licences for restricted periods . |
| 29 | Ahmad Granj was killed early in the battle and his demoralized army broke and fled , to be remorselessly hunted down by the vengeful Abyssinians . |
| 30 | Ozone-depleting CFCs are to be completely phased out by the year 2000 . |