Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] by [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Maggie could n't help but be won over by this appeal on her mother 's behalf . |
2 | Failing success in negotiation , however , the struggle had to be carried on by any means possible . |
3 | The engineering drawing itself accelerated this process , because projects carefully worked out in advance on paper could be carried out by many workers each doing a small repetitive part of the whole operation , perhaps in distant factories and workshops . |
4 | The work that will be carried out by these centres during the trial period builds upon their previous experience in this field : |
5 | Assessment could then be carried out by another manager who is either more senior or who is removed from direct line management of the candidate . |
6 | The manner in which the dolphin receives the returning echoes is also a mystery , but they are thought to be picked up by all parts of the body , to travel through the bones to the head . |
7 | An RS232 interface is provided so that output can be picked up by another device such as a BBC micro with a disc drive . |
8 | Was this erm differences in quality to be made up by more land ? |
9 | The image depressed him ; if that was heaven it was best left to the cherubim and seraphim who might be turned on by that sort of thing . |
10 | He is refreshingly determined not to be pushed around by these men any more than he is by the whites . |
11 | I bet there 's loads of them like it in there , these should be tapped in by both leads |
12 | I used to be worried that I would die and Charmian would be brought up by another woman … |
13 | If deep love exists and that loving is complete , then this blend and harmony can be brought about by all forms of physical closeness — from touching and holding to the complete sexual act . |
14 | An additional , optional logical name may be set up by each user if he or she wishes to store cached information from one LIFESPAN logon session to another . |
15 | Find another two people to be prayer partners with you once a week so that some of these prayer burdens can be shared and agreed on and so that you can be spurred on by each other 's zeal in prayer . |
16 | Mr Eddie Philips , proprietor of the Jolly Judge , said neither his staff nor himself would be put off by any threats despite the attempted bombing at his premises last Wednesday . |
17 | The Queen , he said , should not be put off by any oddity of manner but could be assured that this was a man of great learning , deep human sympathy , and outstanding pastoral gifts . |
18 | Bearing all that in mind , it is not difficult to see how the person who starts with a lack of confidence in one specific area of life soon seems to be taken over by that lack of confidence , which spreads to many spheres of activity . |
19 | He was not foolish enough to be taken in by such tales ! |
20 | it just happens to be the same amount at exactly the same time but how nice of him to explain and how silly of us to be taken in by this string of coincidences . |
21 | The Homunculi are not truly intelligent , and can be taken in by any subterfuge along these lines if they fail an Int test ( which should be modified by the role-play skill of the adventurers ) . |
22 | The tiny gains in weight should ideally be balanced out by these losses . |
23 | ‘ Look , Maud , ’ pleaded Mildred , ‘ I know it 's hard for you to believe me , but that frog in the pond really is a magician and he can only be changed back by another magician . |
24 | If you have dropped the computer , maybe only a few inches , and the failures started after this , then give your local repair man a ring for a quotation without delay or you could write a file to the disk which can not be read back by another machine , or your own for that matter , when the heads have been realigned to their correct setting . |