Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 2 | What really happened has become over-printed by the fiction . |
| 3 | ‘ Our philosophy has become emasculated by the anxiety to propitiate deterministic sciences . |
| 4 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 5 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 6 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 7 | I have not acceded to the application of Madame Bihi to be joined as a representative or other party in this action but I have acceded to her application that I should invite the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae and Mr. Richards has appeared instructed by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 8 | It has remained dominated by the police and operates on the police 's terms ( Stephens , 1988:113 ) . |
| 9 | Under East African conditions , with weak indigenous classes , the bureaucracy has succumbed to control by the metropolitan , neo-colonial bourgeoisie in the form of the multinational corporations . |
| 10 | He turns , but the girl has managed to flee by the fire escape as Lepine makes his way to the bookstore . |
| 11 | Adults were initially more reluctant to discuss their feelings , but may have felt inhibited by the presence of healthcare professionals ; many parents were observed swapping addresses at the end of the meeting . |
| 12 | And Minton , like Hopkin , traduced by myth , may likewise have begun to feel by the end of his life that this was the only thing in him , too , that remained inviolate . |
| 13 | Nature conservationists and farmers ( who both understand what does happen to abandoned land ) should know better , but in the past few years , seem to have become possessed by the same fear of some dark , prolific genie escaping from the bottle . |
| 14 | In the house he now wined and dined in a style that not even Grandfather Funnell had ever done , but all paid for by Grandfather Funnell 's wife , who seemed to have become rejuvenated by the smart , young , fast-talking Mr Jones . |
| 15 | John and Angela had travelled out by the Sally Line from Ramsgate to Dunkirk and had intended to return by the same route . |
| 16 | It had stopped raining by the time they drew into the courtyard at Headquarters . |
| 17 | She looked at them one by one ; she nodded to the people she had seen sewing by the fountain ; she smiled at the old woman and the boy . |
| 18 | On his return in mid-December all his colleagues had felt encouraged by the Prime Minister 's buoyancy ; he had conducted the last debates with all his old skill and command of the House . |
| 19 | She had felt trapped by the old mesh of loyalty and shame . |
| 20 | He had felt betrayed by the visit , after hoping to be lifted out of his crushing depression by it . |
| 21 | No it 's cos I 've got done by the other teachers before . |
| 22 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 23 | In June residents of Sacramento , California , voted to shut down the $342,000,000 Rancho Seco nuclear plant , and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District , which had agreed to abide by the vote , immediately began to implement its closure . |
| 24 | The Monetary Affairs Bureau announced on Jan. 12 that the government had agreed to lift by the second quarter of 1992 the ban on the export of gold , in place since 1949 . |
| 25 | Running until their pursuers had become separated by the chase , they would turn and ambush them one after the other . |
| 26 | Mariscotti is a professor of physics at the University of Buenos Aires where he had become intrigued by the fact that the university had an old cyclotron , a primitive atom smasher built in the early 1950s , which would make it among the first half-dozen to have been built in the world . |
| 27 | One felt that men had become brutalised by the preoccupation of not leaving their company and also not delaying in a place where death was raining down . |
| 28 | In many of the above examples the claim was that a third party had become bound by the treaty in whole or in part , and had ceased to be a third party . |
| 29 | He had become alarmed by the attempts of a group in the Conservative Party to form a New Progressive Group with 100,000 supporters . |
| 30 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |