Example sentences of "[adv] [be] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The apes being taught are therefore without an evolutionarily conferred advantage that human children enjoy — that of employing learning techniques , and being initiated by their elders , in a way that has presumably been refined by selection pressures over a very long time . |
| 2 | Such risks have rarely been emphasised by telephone salesmen at Harvard and elsewhere , except through the compulsory wealth warnings stamped on all Harvard 's contract notes . |
| 3 | For example , they have found that " there is considerable evidence that attitudes to comfort are important in estimating the user 's contribution to conservation … yet these have rarely been explored by research on the effects of feedback " . |
| 4 | Even during the All Black tour of South Africa Ant Strachan , the surprise-packet of an All Black halfback this year , realised he was not likely to displace Jason Hewett , the World Cup no.2 halfback who has since been rejected by Mains and his selectors , from the Auckland position . |
| 5 | Morley Street beat his full brother Granville Again in the slowly-run Elite Hurdle last month , but has since been beaten by Muse over two and a half miles at Ascot . |
| 6 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 7 | He acquired the rudiments of the game in a tougher prep school than many of his Western contemporaries who have long since been cosseted by snooker 's new-found respectability . |
| 8 | My heart froze for a second , as if I had put on an elaborate disguise and suddenly been addressed by name — I did n't feel safe any more . |
| 9 | Until recently , the secluded Cockatoo Island in Western Australia had only been visited by iron ore miners and nineteenth-century pearl fishermen . |
| 10 | Nature conservation has only been promoted by government in France since 1976 ; to date only 2 official Nature Reserves have been designated in the Auvergne . |
| 11 | Opposite The Indian elephant 's ability to manipulate heavy objects has long been exploited by man . |
| 12 | Deer , antelope , buffalo and other grazing mammals have long been hunted by man for their meat and hides and for the other products they yield . |
| 13 | In November 1983 Milan Kundera wrote an essay for Le Débat , in which he argued that Russia could never really be considered part of Europe because it had for so long been dominated by Caesaropapism , where the civil emperor is also the supreme religious leader . |
| 14 | In India , dowry taking has long been forbidden by law but it persists strongly even in the cities . |
| 15 | 72 per cent said that nutritional information made it easier to choose the healthy , balanced diet , which has so long been urged by health educationalists and consumer bodies . |
| 16 | Lead has long been used by man and its toxic properties have long been recognised . |
| 17 | Michael Willis , the ancient Hawaiians , Victor Hugo , had all been affected by wave-fever ; all of them had abjured the text . |
| 18 | The levadas have all been built by hand , in areas where access is impossible men and their picks being suspended by ropes from above . |
| 19 | Socialists in France , Greece , Italy , Spain and even Germany have all been damaged by scandal . |
| 20 | The others had all been chosen by party colleagues in order to replace leaders who had been forced to resign over issues of mismanagement . |
| 21 | The 29-year-old has constantly been dogged by controversy and has earned himself something of a rebel tag . |
| 22 | Some of these regulations may not promote efficiency but be justified on paternalistic grounds : workers are held not to be the best judges of their own interests and so are prevented by law from taking risks they would voluntarily undertake for money . |
| 23 | Those who fly in are carried by escalator down to a railway platform . |
| 24 | Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ? |
| 25 | In the first place , as knowledge of the syntax , phonology and semantics of various languages has increased , it has become clear that there are specific phenomena that can only naturally be described by recourse to contextual concepts . |
| 26 | Social psychoanalysis , by contrast , takes the view that contemporary character should not merely be explained by reference to contemporary culture and childrearing , but that in any society contemporary childrearing and culture are the consequences of historical changes and that the contemporary individual recapitulates the cultural past and therefore , by a sort of reverse neoteny , experiences in his childhood the traumas and stages of ego- and superego-development which occurred in the adult lives of his ancestors . |
| 27 | If there are no goods in the shops ; or if food can only be obtained by rationing ; or if the state siphons off the lion 's share of increased earnings as taxation ; or if an economy seems incapable of growing , then people begin to question the fundamentals on which such a system is built . |
| 28 | The fact that the company never had and was never entitled to have some of the documents and that certain of them could only be obtained by litigation with the appellants , in so far as they were relevant to issues in that litigation , are factors to take into account in the balancing exercise to be set against the purposes of the administration set out in section 8 of the Act of 1986 . |
| 29 | This information could only be obtained by conversion of the CED typesetting tape to a usable representation of the information . |
| 30 | Access to special procedure material can only be obtained by virtue of a warrant issued by a circuit judge who can issue such a warrant either where , prior to the Act , there would have been access to such material and the first set of access conditions apply or where the judge has reasonable grounds to believe ( i ) a serious arrestable offence has been committed . |