Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well tha well oh well that 's alright , it was only that it 'd be I thought you said there was a place for your name and address that had n't been filled in by the computer so you filled it in ? |
| 2 | It certainly is everything that has been fended off by the ego , so to that extent it , it corresponds more closely to erm to the unconscious . |
| 3 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 4 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 5 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 6 | Southern Command have been whittled down by the Carter- |
| 7 | Any irregularities in the universe would simply have been smoothed out by the expansion , as the wrinkles in a balloon are smoothed away when you blow it up . |
| 8 | Others seem to have been shaken out by the recession . |
| 9 | Because once again BR seems to have been caught out by the problem of wet leaves on the line . |
| 10 | And all of these functions are carried on by the ego . |
| 11 | This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives . |
| 12 | Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted . |
| 13 | The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London . |
| 14 | The housewives and small restaurateurs who rely upon the professional skill of charcutiers and pâtissiers for a part of their supplies see to it that the pâtés and sausages , the little salads for hors-d'oeuvre , the galantines and terrines and fish quenelles , the hams and tongues and pies , pastries and fruit flans , the petits fours and the croissants maintain high standards of freshness and excellence , and that any popular regional speciality of the district continues to be cooked with the right and proper traditional ingredients , even if the methods have been speeded up by the introduction of modern machinery . |
| 15 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 16 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 17 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 18 | Dexter found the effect comforting rather than disconcerting : he had been won over by the man 's charm . |
| 19 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 20 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 21 | Disposal of our domestic rubbish is something we tend to forget about once it 's been picked up by the dust-cart . |
| 22 | No p what Peter said was , if it has n't been picked up by the lab and it 's an internal problem , it can be dealt with internally . |
| 23 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 24 | Stray capacitances to earth from P' 1 and P' 2 are shorted out by the primary of the detector transformer at balance . |
| 25 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 26 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 27 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 28 | In this case the user only needs to specify the bucket size required from the alternatives provided , as the formatting and addressing have already been carried out by the manufacturer . |
| 29 | I can not prove that but I do not think that the tests which have been carried out by the County Council refute that possibility . |
| 30 | Owing to a rainfall of extraordinary violence , the stream overflowed at the pond , and a great volume of water , which would normally have been carried off by the stream , poured down a public street into the town and caused damage to the plaintiffs ' property . |