Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by the [adj -est] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course the country may be riveted by the latest video release or the latest Nintendo game . |
| 2 | Again , applications may be made by the nearest relative or an approved social worker and two medical recommendations are required . |
| 3 | The following type of story might be told by the best man , a friend , or groom who works in the bride 's family business : |
| 4 | In Tsarist times the official positions on all Russian railway lines were occupied by European Russians but the menial tasks were more likely to be performed by the lowest order of migrant or by members of the local population . |
| 5 | Whatever else happened , in what could be a very technically limiting production , Doctor Who would be founded by the best writers he could afford . |
| 6 | Who ‘ A ’ is , remains a mystery , but she is a creature of clearly inspirational beauty who has been captured with a fluidity of drawing and subtlety of palette that would be envied by the greatest masters of the French Impressionist School . |
| 7 | By the laws of hospitality , they should be bound by the strictest rules of honour , custom , decency , each one to help and preserve and defend all the others . |
| 8 | ‘ If the sound trade continuously bombards its clientele with music , why can not book browsing be accompanied by the finest voices of the British stage measuring their tonsils against the masterpieces of English verse ? ’ |
| 9 | When Smith was recommending it on television he said , ‘ I wish we could get beyond colour as the criterion and choose to be governed by the best men for the job . ’ |
| 10 | Capital is devoted to the creation of desires and needs which can only be fulfilled by the latest developments of the market . |
| 11 | The season will be complemented by the best shorts in the British transport film unit 's archive . |
| 12 | But this presumption may be rebutted by the slightest indication to the contrary . |
| 13 | Indeed , so profound and all-pervading is the modern resentment of authority , restraint and control in all its forms that even types of protest which seem to be motivated by the highest ideals of civilized behaviour and the most tender manifestations of conscience can be shown to originate in it . |
| 14 | However , sophisticated pantographs based on optical measurement of the rotation of the joints can offer much better results although they still fall short of the sort of accuracies that can be obtained by the best systems . |
| 15 | These skills can be applied to a fairly wide range of tasks which can be tackled by the lowest achievers . |
| 16 | For a start , opponents he had skinned last season were wiser men second time around and less prone to be dismantled by the quickest feet in the Premier League . |
| 17 | They 've certainly got the fans Newcastle are likely to be backed by the biggest crowd in the country today . |