Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 2 | ‘ The composition listens for the listener … [ both ] are kneaded by the same mode of production … [ creating ] a pre-established harmony … between production and consumption … |
| 3 | Moreover , evidence from recent research by Hammersley and Scarth suggests that patterns of whole-class teacher-pupil talk do not differ significantly between courses that are assessed by terminal examinations , ones that are continuously assessed , and ones that are not assessed at all — even when these differently assessed courses are taught by the same teacher and within the same subject . |
| 4 | At this stage , the infant can not cope with the contradiction implied by the fact that two opposing feelings are aroused by the same object . |
| 5 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 6 | Because the glial growth factors and specific activators of the p185 erbB2 receptor are encoded by the same gene , we suggest that the formation of tumours derived from Schwann cells , and perhaps from other glial sources , is regulated by the supply of glial growth factors and by the activity of the p185 erbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase . |
| 7 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 8 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 9 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 10 | Two building societies and a bank have been robbed by the same man in less than three hours . |
| 11 | Thus , the adjectives are prerecorded by the same speaker , at a rate of one every three seconds , and played back to subjects . |
| 12 | Since the models under consideration are made by the same firm ( Fleck and Drucker ) , the politique des auteurs is inescapable . |
| 13 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 14 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
| 15 | This contrasts with the YTM procedure ( shown in ( 5.10 ) ) , in which all cash flows are discounted by the same yield to maturity . |
| 16 | When comparing engine powers , make sure all are measured by the same system or convert one to another ( imp hp × 1.014 = metric hp or ps ; imp hp × 0.746 = kW ; ps × 0.736 = kW ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash . |
| 18 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 19 | The glorious colours of the Painted Desert are produced by the same sort of red and green " marls " as we Europeans have in our Keuper . |
| 20 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |
| 21 | There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage . |
| 22 | The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another . |
| 23 | In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position . |
| 24 | Many fields have a policy that groups of similar modules are assessed by the same weighting of examination to coursework . |
| 25 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 26 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 27 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 28 | Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name . |
| 29 | The potential inference that Mary was not actually hit would be disconfirmed by the same statement . |
| 30 | In addition , all charges against self-confessed drug traffickers would in future be heard by the same judge . |