Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] by other " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , it was n't long before I was approached by other people to set up a new gallery . |
| 2 | They are therefore simultaneously producing larger proportions of theses which are ignored by other workers , and smaller numbers of theses which external researchers have considered worthy of citing . |
| 3 | Erm as far as I 'm concerned Mr Donson 's point that there are significant areas of the county which are covered by other policies , national parks , heritage coast , high quality agricultural land , Erm that may be true but there are significant areas which are not covered by those policies and it seems to me that if erm the county structure plan is going to provide a strategy then it should be relatively comprehensive . |
| 4 | It has been suggested that susceptibility to autoimmune disease in general , including Crohn 's disease , is under the control of a single dominant gene , the specific clinical effects of which are determined by other genes , hormonal influences , and environment triggers . |
| 5 | The advantage of systems such as Dbase 2 are that the user controls the number of fields available ( e.g. the school librarian may wish to have a field for the person who ordered the item and a teacher could have a list of all books or items ordered by him/herself or by the Geography department ) and the size of each field , which is limited by other programs . |
| 6 | The basis for status may vary : it may he anything a social group claims as giving superiority and which is recognised by other groups — examples might include wealth , religious purity . |
| 7 | Finally , some adventurous youngsters began diving off low rocky outcroppings on the shoreline , a practice which was copied by other members of the troupe . |
| 8 | You qualify out of that as an acting corporal , then you 're used by other classes ; for example , as a helper or decoy in staged attacks . |
| 9 | When women were referred by GPs , others were consulted significantly more frequently ( 88 per cent ) than women who were referred by other referrers ( 61 per cent ) ( p=0.02 ) . |
| 10 | Even excluding the admittedly ‘ popular ’ works included in what is a random list , many of the volumes I did not find were by authors who were represented by other titles . |
| 11 | These not only cause a change in self-concept — the way a woman sees herself — but , more important , a change in the way she is perceived by other people . |
| 12 | I 'd coveted Lotta because she was coveted by other men and I had to be the winner . |
| 13 | Phyllisia faced many trials while she was growing up in Harlem , the first occurred when she was mocked by other pupils in her class , they called her ‘ Monkey chaser ’ and ‘ Teachers pet ’ because she was cleverer than the others . |
| 14 | We were defined by other people — our parents or parent figures . |
| 15 | As with protozoan parasites , ponds naturally support a whole host of bacteria — some harmless , some beneficial ( such as the filter bacteria Nitrosomonas and Aeromonas ) , still others are dangerous to fish — though invariably only when they are weakened by other factors . |
| 16 | The implication that they are determined by other factors and of slight consequence occurs again and again ; but Braudel can never bring himself to say it straight out , and indeed undercuts it in the third part of La Méditerranée where , for example , the defeat of Charles V and the Venetians by the Turks in 1538 is said to have had consequences which lasted over a third of a century . |
| 17 | The following experiments can not be entirely satisfactory on the page of a book for they are influenced by other illustrations , the rectilinearity of the page , the test and the general environment . |
| 18 | Psychologists , analysts and therapists often hold strong fundamental allegiances to one set of theories or another , but then temper their views as they are influenced by other approaches . |
| 19 | Some form of property taxes are an almost universal source of income for local government , but in many parts of the world they are accompanied by other forms of taxation . |
| 20 | Further , if they are accompanied by other acts such as putting the goods so removed and relabelled into a receptacle , whether a trolley or the shopper 's own bag or basket , proof of appropriation within section 3(1) becomes overwhelming . |
| 21 | He even underlines the similarity by noting that such traits can be either adaptive or detrimental — i.e. lead to illness — depending on whether or not they are modified by other , more positive , qualities . |
| 22 | Because both he and his mate are mobbed as pillagers whenever they are spotted by other birds , the jay realises that reticence is essential for the safety of the expected brood . |
| 23 | They were joined by other nation 's lifeboats during the passage — one Belgian , one German , one Danish , two Dutch and two US Coast Guard vessels . |
| 24 | They were assisted by other emergency teams who might be called upon in the case of a real emergency . |
| 25 | But they were accompanied by other changes indicating greater interest in childhood as a unique stage in development . |
| 26 | This is n't a case of writers bleating because their own books wo n't be available ; we all spent hours in libraries learning our trade , the only way to learn to write is to how it 's done by other people be it well or badly |
| 27 | There are forms of care which are absent , certain kinds of intimacy , and friendship , no touching , for instance , but it 's compensated by other kinds of care which are possible and not risky . |
| 28 | ( representations , concepts , facts ) which it is given by other practices , whether ‘ empirical ’ , ‘ technical ’ or ‘ ideological ’ . |
| 29 | The paradox about all this information explosion or whatever it is called is that the speed of its distribution is so high and the actual receiving of it by a human being is so necessarily slow and far more inefficient than it is achieved by other methods , such as reading printed marks on paper . |
| 30 | But no parish is a closed community — it is bounded by other communities ( and sometimes by the sea ) and all these have helped to shape its boundaries , layout , population and activities . |