Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are various procedural requirements applicable to a reduction in the standard number , including a duty of the proposer to publish details of the proposals and to refer the proposals to the Secretary of State if objections to them are raised by 10 or more local government electors or by the LEA or governors ( whichever of them is not the admissions authority ) . |
| 2 | These simple propositions are truisms , but their importance and the dangers of departing from them are highlighted by this appeal , which we allowed on 13 March 1992 . |
| 3 | Such questions are not only perennially interesting ; answers to them are presupposed by much of what counts as human knowledge . |
| 4 | Three-quarters of these offences each year are ‘ cleared up ’ , and it transpires that most of them are committed by young males aged between 14 and 29 . |
| 5 | Another reason why you should never go near the line is that many of them are used by electric trains . |
| 6 | The Commission accept that both the 1968 and 1978 Theft Acts and the case law on them are thought by some to be " seriously defective " , but the draft Code was a restatement not a Code to reform the substance of the law . |
| 7 | Even if the T test is made , WS , BS and I are lowered by -5 each . |
| 8 | I am struck by small objects and my nostrils fill with the stink of rot . |
| 9 | It is my one great regret about this whole sorry business that at this crucial time in the Government 's fortunes , when I should so much have liked to be seen as a tower of strength , I am perceived by some as a point of weakness . |
| 10 | In a more general sense I am fascinated by some of the things you 've just mentioned in your introduction , the question of continuity in German history , how we , how this marvellous nation , the nation of Beethoven and Wagner and Marx and Freud , actually finishes up going to war twice against its European neighbours , and in the Second World War in particular committing these awful atrocities . |
| 11 | The things that endure and that matter , I am convinced , are the human relationships and I think as I represent the , the group here today I , I am joined by six other people with associations with the group . |
| 12 | However , I am assured by those who know that public persons — premiers in particular — do not become reconciled to criticism , and despite affecting not to be , they remain immensely conscious of what is being said and are troubled if what is said is not to their liking . |
| 13 | I am visited by dense and dreamless sleep before the horrific wakefulness ; hours in which I do nothing but watch . |
| 14 | … I am moved by those cadences I find in Ivy . |
| 15 | I am met by another answerphone with the friend 's voice on it . |
| 16 | I am plagued by awkward thoughts , like splinters in my brain : the seventh grade and pocket radios , games of spin the bottle from which I am cheerfully excluded , tight jeans , Bonnie Bell lip gloss , me , boyish and baffled , the menacing breath of puberty . |
| 17 | I am influenced by many painters , usually those with a social or religious message such as Breughel , Velasquez , Goya , Delacroix , Gauguin or El Greco . |
| 18 | ‘ If I am a caveman , perhaps I am influenced by these islands ’ proliferation of caves ? ’ he suggested , grinning . |
| 19 | I am afflicted by that ambiguous unease which is produced by the prospect of starting some unwelcome task — a restless desire either to drink water or to pass it . |
| 20 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 21 | One commentator has indeed thought he found an echo of Dryden 's translation of Aeneid 2 , 417-20 , in the opening lines of Canto 4 ; but I am persuaded by later scholars that the case is untenable . |
| 22 | Marcus , not answering this question , said , ‘ I am confronted by several , quite different , dilemmas . |
| 23 | As the ball hangs there , moon-white against the wall of cloud , everything in the world seems briefly up for grabs and I am seized by two contradictory feelings : there is so much beauty in the world it is incredible that we are ever miserable ; there is so much shit in the world that it is amazing we are happy even for a moment . |
| 24 | ‘ I am surrounded by selfish bastards I thought were my friends , ’ I say , slapping my forehead with the hand holding the J and almost setting my hair alight . |
| 25 | I am chilled by some of the things Sinead is coming out with nowadays . |
| 26 | I am informed by one of our Councillors that they are surrounded with Barbed wire . |
| 27 | Dear Willis — As I am informed by those who ought to know that you have " taken the ground " somewhere near London River , I expect you can tell me the whereabouts of the dear old Fortuna , built 1892 , rigged when I last saw her in 1920 as a square foresail brigantine . |
| 28 | I am excoriated by erotic revanchism . |
| 29 | Alternatively , down the road at Chateau de la Muire where I am told by friendly Champagne producers you will find one of the region , s most creative cooks — Jean-Pierre Lallement . |
| 30 | In the early 1970s , Clyde Best , a Bermudan , played for a spell with West Ham and , I am told by one of his former team mates , was made to feel isolated by fellow players . |