Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [vb pp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the positioning of players seems wrong and choice of instruments has presumably been dictated by the need for variety in a tiny space ( the original is quite small ) much remains plausible . |
| 2 | I always thought the dropping of litter showed a lack of environmental relationship awareness , but could it also be linked with the " defacing " thing in that cities , streets with paving-slabs etc. are sensed by the human as too perfect and devoid of the texturous imperfections that make up the multi-levelled human life experience ? |
| 3 | The point has since been confirmed by the House of Lords . |
| 4 | A President and a Council of Ministers were installed , but effective political power has since been exercised by the leadership of the sole legal political organization , the Lao People 's Revolutionary Party ( LPRP ) . |
| 5 | The special edition of the journal had long since been published by the time I got the material out of Iraq . ) |
| 6 | No plane like it has since been used by the public . |
| 7 | It seems that the Rub' al Khali desert of south-eastern Arabia occupies a structural offshoot of the Persian Gulf in which marine sands accumulated in the later parts of the Tertiary period and have since been reworked by the wind . |
| 8 | Meanwhile Dorothy Richardson had suddenly been struck by the thought that the popular insistence of the happy ending was perhaps , however crudely expressed , ‘ the truth of life ’ and a tribute ‘ to their unconscious certainty that life is ultimately good ’ . |
| 9 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 10 | This is not proof , of course , that there was no reasonable expectation of trouble ; the late announcement of the ban , however , gave credence to the assumption that it had only been prompted by the Apprentice Boys march , and that the Government , as in Dungannon , was allowing a loyalist organisation to manipulate the situation so that an opposition demonstration would be banned . |
| 11 | So too with the body clock : it might be that several outputs with different periods are possible and that we tend to concentrate upon the daily or circadian clock because this is the period that is most useful to the organism and which has naturally been accentuated by the environment with its 24-hour period . |
| 12 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 13 | The introduction of the price ceilings and the compensatory wage and pension rises had apparently been decided by the government only on March 19 , following the intervention of President Ion Iliescu . |
| 14 | Secondly , the Congress adopted a resolution initiating the First Five Year Plan ( FFYP ) of industrialisation and collectivisation of agriculture , both of which had long been advocated by the opposition . |
| 15 | And having long been supported by the institution he will be crucially aware that it expects a degree of loyalty verging on deference or acquiescence . |
| 16 | He has long been regarded by the trade as one of the top sporting gun men in the business , with years of experience behind him . |
| 17 | Works of the 18th-century Enlightenment have long been collected by the Library to add to the existing collections : this year the purchase of the second edition of Adam Smith 's An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ( London , 1778 ) enabled the Library to achieve a complete representation of editions of this most important work issued during the lifetime of the author . |
| 18 | Two particular contracts relating to goods have long been recognised by the law , one of bailment and one of sale . |
| 19 | Identification of insect bacterial symbionts has long been hampered by the inability to culture these fastidious prokaryotes . |
| 20 | The Spanish public sector , for example , has long been characterized by the politicization of public appointments ( see ch. 2 ) . |
| 21 | However , the exciting days of last February and March when the Stars were challenging with Chelmsford for promotion have long been forgotten by the home fans . |
| 22 | Champagne has long been used by the city institutions to woo clients . |
| 23 | By the time the hunter caught up with them , the dogs had all been skewered by the goat . |
| 24 | Held , dismissing the appeal , ( 1 ) that the applications to the district judge and the application for judicial review of his decisions had all been made by the applicant in a criminal cause because they related to the manner in which the district court trials should proceed , and so his appeal was not from a judgment of the High Court judge in a civil cause or matter within section 13(2) ( a ) of the Ordinance ; and that , therefore , since no other provision had conferred jurisdiction on the Court of Appeal to entertain the appeal , that court had correctly declined to hear it ( post , pp. 256G , 260E–F , G–H ) . |
| 25 | Steve Leach has suggested that ‘ The ‘ brainstorming session ’ and the interweaving of political purpose and professional knowledge and advice have all been facilitated by the use of deliberative forums ’ ( Leach 1989:106 ) . |
| 26 | That 's obviously been accepted by the labour group because they have taken extra money out of reserves , we 're simply going to take some more out to meet our er our figure that we 're trying to achieve . |
| 27 | His body was found very close to it , but he had obviously been blinded by the blizzard . |
| 28 | The links between high viewing figures and rose-tinted versions of the past have obviously been identified by the programme makers . |
| 29 | Although in some cases enterprises have tried to develop realistic ‘ performative ’ plans ( Wernham 1985 : 633 ) , their incentives to do so are limited by the fact that plans are still subject to external political appraisal which may alter their content and assumptions and thus undermine managerial commitment . |
| 30 | With regard to his latter point , I know that he has sought , and has rightly been provided by the Department , a copy of the circular that we have sent to local authorities precisely to enlist their assistance to ensure that pensioners who will gain from the proposals receive those gains . |