Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 2 | This poverty was all the worse for the general affluence around it , and until now it had been little noticed by the majority . |
| 3 | At first the native community of the Weald may have been little affected by the expansion of the iron industry . |
| 4 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 5 | What really matters is the ability to recognise when the cheese has been properly stored by the retailer and when it is being offered for sale in prime condition . |
| 6 | The draftsman should give consideration to doing so in all renewal leases ( see Form 15 ) but if this is done , the tenant 's adviser must ensure that all necessary ancillary rights are expressly granted by the lease . |
| 7 | The powers that exist to enable him to carry out this task are expressly preserved by the Act , and it is essential to consider their scope in some detail . |
| 8 | The Court of Appeal in Fritschy [ 1985 ] 31 July LEXIS ( not reported in [ 1985 ] Crim LR 745 on this point ) said that they did not understand Lord Roskill 's comment , but anyway the accused was not guilty because he had done nothing in England which had not been expressly authorised by the victim when he collected krugerrands in England . |
| 9 | This inevitable tension which goes to the heart of the matter and which can be fruitful as well as sterile has been paradoxically heightened by the government 's capping of the advanced further education pool . |
| 10 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 11 | They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch . |
| 12 | This was in addition to a $25,000,000 aid package reportedly received on March 7 to provide new housing in the El Chorillo district which had been worst affected by the fighting . |
| 13 | On July 16 the country 's central bank , the Reserve Bank , intervened to attempt to halt a flood of withdrawals from the Bank of Melbourne , which had been worst affected by the crisis of confidence . |
| 14 | But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave . |
| 15 | The case of Perry v Astor ( 1935 ) 19 TC 255 is very instructive in this respect although its effect has been fundamentally changed by the addition of the second limb to s681(1) ( a ) . |
| 16 | The fibre composite model has been successfully used by the author and his associates to explain the properties of ultra-drawn polymers such as polyethylene and polypropylene . |
| 17 | Worst hit will be the South , where people with high mortgages have been most affected by the recession . |
| 18 | Ms Dow said service industries had been most affected by the recession simply because there was no investment and Mr Coultas said manufacturing was the key to the future of Britain 's economy . |
| 19 | In view of this contrast , it is interesting to consider the views of the people of Village , the community which would have been most affected by the closure of Village School . |
| 20 | As with hypochlorites all are badly affected by the presence of dirt . |
| 21 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 22 | He had even been rather touched by The Rat Jacket , that last flare of Cameron 's talent , and had been amused by the author 's recreation of his Hugh Farnham persona as the intellectual , bullying cop . |
| 23 | And here there is at once a difficulty , in that the general productive order , throughout the centuries of the development of capitalism , has been predominantly defined by the market , and ‘ cultural production ’ , as we have seen , has been increasingly assimilated to its terms , yet any full identity between cultural production and general production has been to an important extent resisted , one of the forms of this resistance being the distinctions between ‘ artisan ’ , ‘ craftsman ’ and ‘ artist ’ , and in an important related form the distinction between ‘ objects of utility ’ and ‘ objects of art ’ . |
| 24 | It is safe to conclude that at any stage of this planet 's history the world of bacteria has been overwhelmingly conditioned by the state of the biosphere . |
| 25 | Although it had been overwhelmingly approved by the House of Commons on March 19 by 273 votes to 60 , the Lords ' vote effectively ended the chances of the bill becoming law in the current session of parliament . |
| 26 | We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies . |
| 27 | Those cells in locations which are little affected by the sensitivity analyses would accumulate high counts . |
| 28 | Although such improvement has been vigorously promoted by the North of Scotland College of Agriculture ( which is responsible for agricultural extension and training in the area ) , the response has , after some initial enthusiasm , been extremely disappointing . |
| 29 | Another medium that can be used selectively is direct marketing , a fact which has been vigorously promoted by the Post Office . |
| 30 | Rights of way are often played down by vendors and appear dormant but once negotiations have been legally completed , or work commences on site , are vigorously enforced by the beneficiary . |