Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the characters they met are portrayed by Minton in the book . |
| 2 | The pulses received are counted by the driving software and give a direct reading of the cursor 's position on the screen . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
| 4 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
| 5 | ‘ You had them all the time — you trailed me round — you bloody filthy lying bastard — you poked my head into every shit-bin in Bristol — you led me up hill and down dale till my feet were dropping off — you made me steal some people 's boat — I could 've been got by the police — I might be festering in jail now — handcuffed — criminal — you do n't care , you 're criminal anyway — I would n't be surprised if you 'd murdered half a dozen innocent people and cut them up and kept their pieces stashed away in the hole where you 've been hiding my bag and my things and my money and my dreams … ’ |
| 6 | Willy 's synthetic abstractions which generalize and falsify are countered by her analytic and critical re-writing of Herodotus . |
| 7 | There is every likelihood that the versions of antiracism I have criticized will wither away as the local state structures on which they have relied are destroyed by the conflict with central government . |
| 8 | When working by hand , it is only necessary to record those values that change upon iteration ; in this text the values that change are denoted by bold print , but the other numbers are copied over for clarity . |
| 9 | ALL events listed are led by the Countryside Ranger Service . |
| 10 | The effects of the intercalating chromophore on platinum binding are probed by including cisplatin , 7 , PtenCl 2 , 1 and PtpropCl 2 , 4 , as monomeric comparators . |
| 11 | But the desertion of a part of the crew is to be considered an emergency of the voyage as much as their death ; and those who remain are bound by the terms of their original contract to exert themselves to the utmost to bring the ship in safety to her destined port . |
| 12 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 13 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 14 | Application is made direct to the Polytechnic and decisions on whether to offer a place and what exemptions are to be given are made by the relevant Field Chairs , using an interview if necessary . |
| 15 | The taxa in which organisms may be placed are recognised by international agreement , and the chief ones are : Kingdom , Phylum , Class , Order , Family , Genus and Species . |
| 16 | A point worth noting is that when the State of Tennessee issued the order to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School , the entire assets of the school were sold at public auction , including the land , buildings , library , stock etc , and having learned this savage lesson from experience , the land and buildings on which the new Highlander Research and Education Center is now located are owned by a separate Trust which is completely distinct from Highlander , and is now answerable for any of the activities which take place there . |
| 17 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 18 | They take this view because they are alive to the fact that since 1935 no government has been elected by a majority of the electorate and secured 50 per cent of the popular vote . |
| 19 | The main anti-apartheid parties , unbanned by the government in February 1990 are : the African National Congress ( ANC , Oliver Tambo , pres. , Nelson Mandela , deputy pres. ) ; the Pan-Africanist Congress ( PAC ; Clarence Makwetu was elected president in December after the death in October of Zephania Mothopeng ; PAC general secretary is Benny Alexander — see pp. 37765 , 37910 ) ; the PAC refuses to negotiate with the government until a constituent assembly has been elected by universal suffrage ; the Azanian People 's Organization ( Azapo , Pandelani Nefolovhodwe , pres. ) , which rejects outright any negotiations with the government ; and the South African Communist Party ( SACP , Joe Slovo gen. sec. ) , which re-launched itself as a legal political party within South Africa in July 1990 . |
| 20 | A first assessment of the non-market benefits of woodlands has been completed by the Forestry Commission . |
| 21 | One study which goes a long way towards identifying dimensions of the culture of the shop floor , and the political relatedness of workers to their enterprise has been completed by Paul E. Willis . |
| 22 | Once the test flying schedule has been completed by Mark Hanna the Spitfire will be operated on the airshow circuit by the Duxford-based Old Flying Machine Company , flying alongside their Eagle Squadron schemed MH-434 . |
| 23 | A SECOND 3D seismic survey covering offshore Vietnam has been completed by XFI . |
| 24 | Construction work on the world 's largest hydroelectric project , in Northern Quebec , Canada , has been halted by a ruling from the National Energy Board that the project must comply with federal guidelines on the environment . |
| 25 | However , its sale plan has been halted by a court action over the trusteeship of the collection and has already provoked the National Art Collections into stripping it of a grant . |
| 26 | A planning application has been lodged by Caithness Charcoal for the construction of a factory on the edge of the Dubb Lochs of Shielton site of special scientific interest ( SSSI ) . |
| 27 | An official objection to National Grid Company plans for a high-voltage overhead line from Teesside to Shipton , near York , has been lodged by the department . |
| 28 | Recent comment has been disfigured by a good deal of misinformation . |
| 29 | Now , at 19 , I do n't believe my life has been impaired by having aged parents . |
| 30 | Tea and spices have played their part in making this unforgotten paradise a priceless jewel which has been snatched by the Portuguese , Dutch , and finally the British . |