Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examples from everyday experience arise in the " tackiness ' of rubber solution , or the ability of polystyrene , for instance , to form threads when softened by solvents such as are used by model makers . |
| 2 | It may therefore be subject to certain restrictions , but these shall only be such as are provided by law and are necessary : ( a ) For respect of the rights or reputations of others ; … |
| 3 | In March this year , students John Else and Claire Short , both 19 , died after being overcome by gas fumes in a shared house in Croxteth Grove , Toxteth . |
| 4 | In March this year , students John Else and Claire Short , both 19 , died after being overcome by gas fumes in a shared house in Croxteth Grove , Toxteth . |
| 5 | A 61-year-old man was also carried out of the block of bedsits in Fort Street , New Brighton , after being overcome by smoke . |
| 6 | British Telecom has reluctantly agreed to a new price formula after being rapped by watchdog OFTEL . |
| 7 | In the past year-and-a-half , 2,500 Colombians have been killed by such groups and a further 250 have disappeared after being detained by security forces , according to Amnesty . |
| 8 | Mr Bell , 54 , still has shrapnel in his stomach after being hit by mortar fire while covering the civil war in Sarajevo last August . |
| 9 | PC fights for life after being hit by brick |
| 10 | STRICKEN TV newsman Martin Bell tried hard yesterday to crack jokes about his sudden exit from Sarajevo by air ambulance after being hit by shrapnel . |
| 11 | A mass meeting of the Raybestos workers was then held at which workers agreed to return to work after being assured by union representatives that a safety investigation would take place at the factory and the findings would be made available as a precondition for a return to work . |
| 12 | It went ahead after being approved by European and British regulatory authorities , despite protests by a number of other British airlines . |
| 13 | A BRITON jailed for eight years in Iraq after being seized by border guards on the frontier with Kuwait has been named as Simon Dunn , 23 . |
| 14 | On July 17 a French aid worker Xavier Rouan had been released after being held by mujaheddin guerrillas since July 5 . |
| 15 | An elderly walker was still poorly in hospital yesterday after being rescued by helicopter from the Yorkshire Dales . |
| 16 | Tordo needed 20 stitches in the wound and spent the night in hospital after being caught by prop Gary Pagel 's studs at the bottom of a maul during the second match of the tour against Western Province on Saturday . |
| 17 | I can well believe that many Labour supporters changed their minds on polling day after being terrified by newspaper ads warning how much extra tax they would pay under Kinnock ? |
| 18 | Boyd 's 12-man team visited each of the ten pits after being told by Trade President Michael Heseltine to establish if British Coal had met the prescribed criteria for closure . |
| 19 | After being criticised by manager Mr Smith for the timing of his announcement , 24 hours before the Villa Park match , Beresford said : ‘ I do n't want to leave Pompey — in fact it 's quite the reverse . |
| 20 | DNA exerts these effects initially locally , after being read by RNA and translated into protein chains , which then affect cell shape and behaviour . |
| 21 | To create a Chebyshev filter , equation ( 12.22 ) shows that the poles of must be arranged to satisfy Making the helpful substitution so that the required condition ( 12.27 ) becomes or on equating real and imaginary parts Since can not be zero , and and it follows that the poles of are given by equation ( 12.28 ) subject to the two conditions where p is any integer ( positive or negative ) including zero , and Of course , the poles can also be obtained through similar substitution for rather than . |
| 22 | This process of being stimulated by theory to carry out further research , and research contributing to the building-up of theory , is essentially what scientists call a ‘ feedback mechanism ’ . |
| 23 | There is no suggestion that Christians today view mental illness or epilepsy as the result of being possessed by evil . |
| 24 | In a now well-quoted passage from her account , in which she was trying to capture the feeling — commonly reported by schizophrenics — of being flooded by stimulation , she wrote : |
| 25 | For six years Rita has lived the knife-edge existence of an illegal immigrant : invisible to the social services and institutions that citizens and landed immigrants can count on ; and constantly afraid of being discovered by immigration officials and deported . |
| 26 | Whilst Bunyan might have rejoiced at being used to belabour the inanities and vanities of the Church of England , it is difficult to know what he would have thought of being commemorated by memorial windows in Elstow parish church and Westminster Abbey . |
| 27 | The chance of being hit by lightening is 200,000 to one . |
| 28 | Any woman in the early 1970s did not need to be very observant to notice that there were serious dangers of being discredited by name in the media . |
| 29 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
| 30 | it must be politically acceptable , with strong support both from lenders and money advisers and with a good chance of being implemented by government . |