Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 2 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 3 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 4 | I am struck by small objects and my nostrils fill with the stink of rot . |
| 5 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 6 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 7 | I am plagued by awkward thoughts , like splinters in my brain : the seventh grade and pocket radios , games of spin the bottle from which I am cheerfully excluded , tight jeans , Bonnie Bell lip gloss , me , boyish and baffled , the menacing breath of puberty . |
| 8 | I am influenced by many painters , usually those with a social or religious message such as Breughel , Velasquez , Goya , Delacroix , Gauguin or El Greco . |
| 9 | ‘ If I am a caveman , perhaps I am influenced by these islands ’ proliferation of caves ? ’ he suggested , grinning . |
| 10 | One commentator has indeed thought he found an echo of Dryden 's translation of Aeneid 2 , 417-20 , in the opening lines of Canto 4 ; but I am persuaded by later scholars that the case is untenable . |
| 11 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 12 | I am excoriated by erotic revanchism . |
| 13 | Alternatively , down the road at Chateau de la Muire where I am told by friendly Champagne producers you will find one of the region , s most creative cooks — Jean-Pierre Lallement . |
| 14 | I am told by British Gas that that is untrue , and that the hon. Gentleman has taken the number of inquiries and complaints made to the Gas Consumers Council . |
| 15 | But this , I 'm assured by Brandoni Custom , is due to the inconsistency of the old springs , and they 're currently researching an improved spring so that guitars can be equipped with original units when required . |
| 16 | I 'm joined by four women who can talk about these issues : Ann Mobbs , Theresa Smith , Brenda Thornton and Barbara Bryant . |
| 17 | Today I 'm joined by four people from Kuwait and we 'll be getting the Kuwaiti reaction to the war in the Gulf . |
| 18 | I 'm joined by three women who will have views on that , I 'm sure . |
| 19 | But right now I 'm joined by three City County Councillors . |
| 20 | It 's like a speck of dust drifts down and goes into my eye and I look up to see where it came from and I 'm hit by this tonne of bricks ; it hits me that hard . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm moved by this tribute , Hugo , ’ Matthew said , laughing . |
| 22 | Erm I 'm influenced by all kinds of things but I 'm sure I 'm not influenced by wishing for certain power or not . |
| 23 | In the corridor I 'm addressed by another doctor . |
| 24 | I drift off to sleep smelling the sweet smell of the straw mattress , but I 'm woken by driving rain . |
| 25 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 26 | Barbara and I were interviewed by one team upstairs in the top bar . |
| 27 | Jane Hinton-Clifton , who runs the college in Duke Street , said : ‘ I was visited by two officials of the North Yorkshire TEC who told me our funding was being cut off . |
| 28 | ‘ You 're looking at the next Sugar Ray , ’ I was assured by one youth before he had even sparred in training ! |
| 29 | ‘ I was struck by two things — the refusal of battered victims to give in to despair , those who could not speak gave me a thumbs up , and the insistence of sorrowing parents and girlfriends that ‘ we 'll never let them win ’ , ’ he said . |
| 30 | It was then that I was struck by another passage in Mothers and Daughters : ‘ As the middle- aged daughter develops reasonable expectations of her ageing mother , she will be able to develop reasonable self-expectations in relation to her daughter . |