Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its meaning can be altered by its altered context . |
| 2 | Every day , we can either be driven by the past — repeating our customary patterns and habits , believing in old limitations — or we can be propelled by our future , by our Dreams , by what we are becoming . |
| 3 | His blessing always comes as a surprise , and can be recognized by its very ‘ arbitrariness ’ and seeming absurdity . |
| 4 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 5 | The whole scheme will be policed by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate of Pollution , currently seriously understaffed with suitable recruits hard to find . |
| 6 | ‘ We have advised Mr and Mrs Woodhead to take a week 's leave of absence during which the mayoral duties will be undertaken by their deputies . ’ |
| 7 | Barons could most readily huff and stomp when they did indeed own their papers , rather than being chairmen , liable to be sacked by their directors . |
| 8 | The reticence of the CAB to put its case more cogently to the private sector may be explained by their historic fear of losing their independence . |
| 9 | Rather more than ten of Scaevola 's cases may be explained by their origins in the words of laymen , or as possible glosses or interpolations : just under forty remain . |
| 10 | Some of the analogues with modifications at these sites bind tightly to cyclophilin but are relatively inactive as immunosuppressants ( for example , [ MeAla6 ] CsA and [ D-aminobutyric acid ] CsA ) which may be explained by their decreased affinity for calcineurin . |
| 11 | That is , in brief , it is reasonable to suppose that their nature , as distinct from that of effects , is to be explained by their membership of causal circumstances . |
| 12 | The unexpected finding of very few and exclusively group II introns in plant mitochondria may be explained by their requirement for trans-splicing . |
| 13 | Therefore , increased fasting volumes in patients with acromegaly might be explained by their large body size . |
| 14 | The high level of marking of the first two occurrences ( " Martian " and " Mars ' ) can be explained by their foregrounded status in being located near the beginning of the schema instantiation . |
| 15 | However , his view that each thing has an essence and that all its active behaviour is to be explained by its inbuilt conatus or striving to preserve its own essence has a strong Aristotelian flavour . |
| 16 | What he is mainly denying when he denies that there are final causes in nature is that the existence of each individual sort of thing is to be explained by its serving some cause beyond it , in particular some kind of human interest . |
| 17 | The noticeably high serum pepsinogen I concentration in the patients with chronic renal failure is consistent with previous reports and can be explained by its impaired renal clearance . |
| 18 | In part , that may be explained by his own view of women formed from those days in Neptune : they should be independent , take their strengths from their inner self and not rely on men , except for moral support . |
| 19 | But Jean Marie Le Pen 's following , which at the last elections reached 27 per cent in some regions , can not simply be explained by his charisma . |
| 20 | Anselm seems to have treated Rufus with more generosity and trustfulness than he showed to Henry I. This can probably be explained by his greater experience of the unreliability of kings ; perhaps also by a certain attractive openness in Rufus which the prudent and wily Henry lacked . |
| 21 | The reason for Virani 's euphoria can also be explained by his timing . |
| 22 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 23 | That he never did go there again may be explained by his increasing problems at home , yet successive popes continued to hope in vain . |
| 24 | Finally it has been suggested that the likenesses between the Andokides Painter 's work and the Siphnian frieze might be explained by his having started as a sculptor there , then come on to the Kerameikos to invent red-figure under the inspiration of relief-colouring . |
| 25 | Theuderic I seems to have kept himself apart from the other sons of Clovis , though this could , in part , be explained by his greater age . |
| 26 | Didier Pironi told me they were about to leave the circuit for a hotel to meet in private where they could not be coerced by their bosses and , as it happens , along with a half-dozen other early colleagues , my car was well placed to follow the bus as it drove off . |
| 27 | Any grudging admission of Britain 's ultimate dependence upon the United States in the event of war was accompanied by the usual warning that Americans were a " mercurial " people , governed by so " archaic " a constitution that the government might be paralysed by its own people in a crisis . |
| 28 | He was told that there was a waiting list and that he must be referred by his General Practitioner , as a National Health Service patient , in order that the local Health Authority provide the necessary funding , as the operation is only available on the N.H.S. |
| 29 | There is also the cost of care both up to today 's date given by her parents and in the future to be given by her parents and by professional carers . |
| 30 | For either he had to obtain another document for which he had to apply to the court and would be given by its clerk . |