Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
| 2 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 3 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
| 4 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
| 5 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 6 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
| 7 | Interestingly , emphasis has been placed by the decision-makers within these bodies on the individuality of the complainant . |
| 8 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 9 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
| 10 | So , for example , among the Muslim Somali of north-east Africa , married women are frequently prone to mysterious complaints which are diagnosed by the experts as possession by evil spirits . |
| 11 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 12 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 13 | Such difficulties are compounded by the complexities of dealing with children who are bilingual . |
| 14 | Yet when such annoyances are compounded by the strains of family living , what would cause one family annoyance might easily add up to long-term unhappiness in another family . |
| 15 | In education , the liberal optimism of the 1985 Swann Report has not only been punctured by the policies of Conservative governments and by the ideological counter-offensive of the New Right . |
| 16 | " Moons make speed to repair their heavenly losses " ( Michie 1964 ) ; " While , though , waning moons can mend their celestial losses " ( Leishman 1956 ) ; " Her losses soon the moon supplies " ( Johnson 1784 ) ; " But oh , whate'er the sky-led seasons mar , / Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams " ( Housman 1944 ) ; " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " ( Marsh 1940 ) . |
| 17 | The choice may depend on who I am , and even on when I live ; Edward Marsh 's version — " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " — was published in wartime , in December 1940 ( the year of the Battle of Britain ) . |
| 18 | The search for characteristics which are common to all services has floundered and attempts to treat the services as a homogeneous group have been plagued by the differences between services , in the kinds of labour involved , the type of work performed and the nature of the product . |
| 19 | As the radiation decreases by the square of the distance to the source , the highest radiation doses are received by the hands of the investigator . |
| 20 | For it has come to pass that through marriage certain feelings are communicated by the partners to each other and , more important , to society at large . |
| 21 | Small notebook systems have already been developed by the likes of Tandy Grid , NCR and Apple , and some of them are already use for simple form filling applications like supermarket stocktaking or car fleet management . |
| 22 | The teaching equipment on WISE VI has been developed by the Faculties of Engineering and Environmental Studies , and the WISE Vehicle Programme Unit . |
| 23 | Léonie kept her hands outside the covers as she had been taught by the nuns at her primary school . |
| 24 | Both single people and married couples may feel a sense of frustration as the years in which they had planned to be more free to go out and about , and less restricted financially , are circumscribed by the demands of caring . |
| 25 | The distinction is explicable on the basis that directorship has not been regarded by the courts as a profession , and hence a director is not expected to satisfy a higher standard , for example that of the reasonably competent business manager , simply by virtue of holding office . |
| 26 | Both those obstacles had been foreseen by the anti-Keynesians at the Treasury thirty years before . |
| 27 | They have been gulled by the promises of the men that they will have better work , better wages , better conditions . |
| 28 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 29 | Students are regarded by the banks as the ripest harvest of all : the people who will be earning the highest balances in the future and who are likely to stay loyal for life once signed up . |
| 30 | Students are regarded by the banks as the ripest harvest of all : the people who will be earning the highest balances in the future and who are likely to stay loyal for life once signed up . |