Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't lived through the hell of Spanish Fork to be carved up by some common-or-garden psychopath . |
| 2 | For Sun Yat-sen , the leader of the revolution , China was a slab of meat waiting to be carved up by foreign powers , a loose sheet of sand incapable of being coherently organised . |
| 3 | One pupil told her grandmother , who was so shocked she had to be calmed down by her son and daughter-in-law . |
| 4 | ‘ A nice thing if an English gentlewoman is to be turned out by Poles to make room for South Americans ! ’ |
| 5 | So many made it onto land only to be turned back by some unforeseen ailment . |
| 6 | Newspapers do develop the discussion in much more detail , but people are more likely to be turned off by newspapers than |
| 7 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 8 | A look , movement or philosophy may start energetically and idealistically , only to be killed off by hype . |
| 9 | The ILEA was to be killed off by attrition , and the Education Officer of the ILEA , Mr William Stubbs , claimed that the proposals would ‘ result in a breakdown of the administration of the service in the capital ’ . |
| 10 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 11 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 12 | For the city 's planners the poor were a public danger , their potentially riotous concentrations to be broken up by avenues and boulevards which would drive the inhabitants of the crowded popular quarters they replaced into some unspecified , but presumably more sanitary and certainly less perilous locations . |
| 13 | Big organic molecules , and especially the nucleic acids of which genes are made ( see p 5 ) , are liable to be broken down by high-energy radiation , and in particular by the ultraviolet ( W ) light that is a component of sunlight . |
| 14 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |
| 15 | These gums are highly polymerized pentoses that have to be broken down by bacteria , which release nutrients roughly equivalent to the yields from fruits . |
| 16 | According to Jensen , the most effective way of disposing of the chemicals is to spray them over the land according to the manufacturer 's directions , allowing them to be broken down by the sun and weather . |
| 17 | Twice he was found sleep-walking naked in the streets and had to be escorted back by police . |
| 18 | Features : rubber outer with rubber eyecaps — to be bent back by people who wear glasses . |
| 19 | It was bad enough , he felt , to be cast out by your family , be stuck working in ffeatherstonehaugh 's , and be spending all your spare time working for a degree , without additionally having the stress of falling over dead bodies : the boy needed his sleep . |
| 20 | Soldiers , battle-wagons , helicopters and rockets rush towards you with alarming speed , only to be shot down by John in true Op Wolf/Thunderbolt fashion . |
| 21 | Lindsey used Bravo Golf from the time of its purchase in 1967 until 1973 as the family transport , that was until he had a visit from the Airshow Coordinator at RAF Finningley in 1973 who asked him if he would like to be shot down by a Spitfire and Hurricane at the Battle of Britain airshow that year ! |
| 22 | The reason why there are fewer disconnections is that the electricity companies have introduced card meters , so that people cut themselves off rather than having to be cut off by the electricity companies . |
| 23 | As the plaster dust settled , dazed guards emerged from the interior of the palace , only to be cut down by the machete-wielding cacos who had brought their knowledge of the palace to the rebels . |
| 24 | But , since shareholders have a prima facie right to transfer to whomsoever they please , this right is not to be cut down by uncertain language or doubtful implications . |
| 25 | They will have to be slowed down by moderators to the energy required , and then guided to the instruments in which the scientists will study their materials . |
| 26 | Ziegler did not want to be slowed down by the prisoner , so he ordered the Frenchman to strip off his boots and coat , then ordered his Sergeant to cut the man 's overall straps . |
| 27 | Demonstrators calling for World Motor Racing Champion , Nigel Mansell , to be kept on by Williams gathered outside the team 's Didcot headquarters . |
| 28 | Gordon Craig once said that ‘ a bookplate is to the book what a collar is to the dog ’ — a wisecrack not wholly true , since the purpose of the plate is not to enable a book to be led round by its owner , or even for it to be returned by the police when lost . |
| 29 | No new ones are to be built , and existing ones are to be phased out by 1999 . |
| 30 | Bach and Jain conclude that all CFCs need to be phased out by 2000 . |