Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to be accepted as a Safe-Buy approved supplier , firms must prove through their accounting system that they are financially sound ; they must prove they hold proper current insurances ; they must supply a list of recent customers , at lest 12 of whom are contacted by the Safe-Buy team and asked about their satisfaction with their recent home improvement ; finally , further checks are made on the company through the relevant consumer protection associations to ensure that the applicants reputation is untarnished . |
| 2 | Standard curriculum and the syllabuses which stem from them are approved by the Ministry of Education . |
| 3 | Any amino acids in the nectar are probably of little importance and nectars high in them are avoided by the birds . |
| 4 | I do not answer , nor do I open my eyes , but I am stirred by the relentless bleep and static of the answerphone ; words , artificial like a megaphone , filtering through . |
| 5 | I am struck by the image of ‘ fire ’ in ‘ Paterson . ’ |
| 6 | Since I started as an engineer , and have ended as a biologist , I am struck by the similarities between the two ways of thinking , although there is the difference that an engineer starts with a function to be performed , and designs a structure to perform it , whereas a biologist often starts with a structure , and has to work out the function it is performing . |
| 7 | I am struck by the pervasiveness of assumptions of genre in writing and thinking about television , and by the simultaneous difficulty of identifying where the theoretical groundings of these assumptions lie . |
| 8 | Having inspected hundreds of buildings of every conceivable age and style , from ancient castle to modern semi , and having supervised the construction , maintenance and preservation of hundreds more , from hi-tech laboratories to family homes , I am struck by the huge difference between the well designed and built , and the badly designed and built , the latter being at the heart of most of the horror stories . |
| 9 | During that time he sought inspiration and enrichment of the texture of the story in the surrounding countryside , in the paintings of Turner ( ‘ What he paints chiefly is light as modified by objects ’ ) and Romney ( ‘ I am struck by the red glow of [ his ] backgrounds , and his red flesh shades ’ ) , in the faces of women he met at dinner parties or saw by chance in a passing omnibus . |
| 10 | I am struck by the immense change from social barbarism to social civilisation which has taken place in London ( indeed in Great Britain ) during my lifetime . |
| 11 | Looking back over this chapter I am struck by the dreadful pitfalls which seem to beset every step which the sociologist might contemplate taking in documentary research . |
| 12 | I am struck by the paucity of hon. Members in the Chamber . |
| 13 | ‘ I am honoured by the prince 's interest — but I doubt not it stems from mere curiosity as to my connection with her for whom he has a brotherly fondness . ’ |
| 14 | In that task I am assisted by a team of six managers , all of whom are professional nurses and district nurses or health visitors and they of course are there to advise me on professional issues , and to share with me the management task of using the resources of Oxford City in the way that we feel is best appropriate , and in doing that , I think one of the important things for us to do , I do n't think we do it quite as well as we should , is to work more closely with the local council , and to look really at what the needs of our local communities are for health , and to try and make sure that the feelings that might well be expressed by individuals , either individually , or through caring associations , or through other statutory agencies , or through voluntary health organisations , are actually given a chance to be there , and to influence our , that official policy and constituents , and to , to influence the planning process . |
| 15 | I am pervaded by a deep and solemn sadness . |
| 16 | I am stopped by an unstable-looking scree slope . |
| 17 | It is not called burning bush for nothing : I am tempted by the reputation its seed pods have for giving off a halo of oil vapour on still summer 's evenings . |
| 18 | SIR — I am desired by the management of the Northampton Town Football Club to convey their sincere thanks to the supporters present at the County Ground on Saturday last for the exemplary patience shown awaiting the arrival of the Coventry team . |
| 19 | I am warmed by an exhalation of spices and honey , but the words she speaks , as she flings the earring out to sea , cast me adrift in an ice-cold current . |
| 20 | I am fascinated by every single bar . |
| 21 | I am fascinated by the roads and tracks and the steeplechase phases in Three Day Events . |
| 22 | I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature . |
| 23 | I am fascinated by the use of the English language , I do not wish to undermine it , but , as I would argue , it does overtly undermine 50 percent of its users ( i.e. women ) . |
| 24 | I am fascinated by the difference in the markings on ( some ) of these aircraft . |
| 25 | ‘ I am fascinated by the idea of focus . |
| 26 | Professor Camm , I am fascinated by the data on the prediction of arrhythmic deaths . |
| 27 | It may not be strictly within my remit , but I am fascinated by the amount of space that is being lavished , particularly by the Sunday Times , on the new list of ‘ The Best of Young British Novelists ’ . |
| 28 | I am assured by a rather unkempt doctor of my casual acquaintance that this disease — which neatly combines as in a two-thonged whip the miseries of arthritis and psoriasis — is a classic ‘ stress ’ illness , visible , painful , incurable and distasteful to others . |
| 29 | I dream that I am visited by a poet called T. S. Eliot . |
| 30 | However , once in a while I am visited by a ‘ self-proclaimed expert . |