Example sentences of "he is [verb] by [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In part he is swayed by fear of his fate at the hands of the enraged seamen : in part he is driven by an awakening of conscience as painful as the circulation returning to the frozen body of Thomas Fox when he is brought down from the masthead . |
| 2 | But it 's difficult to convince Rush that Dalglish is not deluding himself if he says he is fulfilled by life after the Kop . |
| 3 | So he is hit by loss of orders , and can not find work for his employees . |
| 4 | Suppose , on the other hand , that he is guided by law as integrity , which does not limit law to what convention finds in past decisions but directs him also to regard as law what morality would suggest to be the best justification of these past decisions . |
| 5 | " The dangerous feature of these unions " , wrote one such shipowner , " is that they really are benevolent societies and as such will necessarily accumulate funds , giving their members a contingent interest in those funds and therefore if a man should wish to retire from them as combinations , he is held by interest in them and consequently they must always be in operation " . |
| 6 | Metaphor and simile are used to chart the development of Lok when he is forced by circumstance into leadership : a role for which he is unprepared and unsuitable . |