Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haverford asked on the children 's behalf , but they had already found it , scampering away through the display of giant dolls , plastic picnic tables , local cheese and wine , and returned resentful at having been glowered at by the resident guardian because they had n't understood the purpose of her saucer of lire . |
| 2 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 3 | Such parents know that it is something they have been socialised into by a segregated society , and that things could have been otherwise : that they ought to be otherwise ( It 's not fair … ’ ) . |
| 4 | Up to 6 display windows may be defined by the user on the Z88 ; they are referred to by a single ASCII character " 1 " to " 6 " . |
| 5 | Some languages quite openly exploit this belief : Janssen-Jurreit notes that in Konkani , a language of south India , there is a distinction between married women ( who are referred to by the feminine form ) and young or widowed women ( who get the neuter to mark their lesser status ) . |
| 6 | Foundationers have a special place in the life of Heriot 's and are looked after by a senior member of Staff with responsibility for pastoral care . |
| 7 | The Children Act intended parental responsibility to be shared when children are looked after by a local authority , but practice is proving less than perfect as new dangers emerge for children who are ‘ accommodated ’ . |
| 8 | The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine . |
| 9 | In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family . |
| 10 | I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority . |
| 11 | The proposals were reported to have been agreed upon by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) on Oct. 19 and were presented to the Council of Representatives on Nov. 18 . |
| 12 | This had been talked about by a few experienced bomber squadron commanders , notably Wg Cdrs " Willie " Tait , Charles Whitworth , Syd Bufton and , of course , " Jimmy " Marks who , as bomber pilots . |
| 13 | Another agency may therefore apply for an EPO if it disagrees with the recommendation of the case conference or that recommendation has not been acted upon by the local authority . |
| 14 | The specification recommended in the document which has been issued , and which was praised in Standing Committee , has been acted upon by the Scottish Bus Group . |
| 15 | Registered Designs are provided for by the Registered Designs Act 1949 , amended by the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 . |
| 16 | Periodically praised in most food guides , the restaurant has been presided over by the urbane Tom Jones , formerly manager of the Scotch Corner Hotel . |
| 17 | Indeed , some forms of regulatory rule-breaking are dealt with by a penal style of enforcement at the outset , and in other circumstances a compliance strategy will subsequently yield to a sanctioning approach if the struggle for conformity is lost . |
| 18 | His aim was to determine whether single letters are dealt with by the right hemisphere in a visual or a phonological code . |
| 19 | Most building disputes which go to litigation are dealt with by the Official Referee . |
| 20 | Such disputes are dealt with by the civil law and in the civil courts . |
| 21 | Unlike the courts previously considered , which are presided over by a sole judge , the industrial tribunal is presided over by a legally qualified chairperson and two lay persons ( 'wing men' ) . |
| 22 | These authorities are presided over by the National Water Council , set up at the same time to be a central co-ordinating body to give advice on major matters of policy ( Times , 1978 ) . |
| 23 | One is mounted on top of the power supply , and two are spoken for by the floppy and hard disk drives , so you 'd be in trouble if you wanted to fit more than two peripherals . |
| 24 | And remember , they are all products of Pakistan 's domestic cricket competitions , which are competed for by the commercial organisations and regional teams which have always been condemned by Imran — who for the last decade had not played domestic cricket in Pakistan . |
| 25 | True , these property rights could have been dealt with by a determined planner , but the fact remains that they were not . |
| 26 | ‘ This aggression has not been dealt with by the United Nations . |
| 27 | If there was a potential prejudice in reporting any of the proceedings it could have been dealt with by the lesser measure of a postponing order . |
| 28 | The use of such techniques for language processing has traditionally been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 29 | For a long time the use of probabilistic information in linguistic systems has been frowned upon by the linguistic community . |
| 30 | I was curious to see what shrift she would receive in Naipaul 's novel : the work of a man who has been spoken of by an old friend , the novelist Paul Theroux , as having in earlier times been ‘ merciless , solitary , and ( one of his favourite words ) unassailable ’ . |