Example sentences of "[be] [verb] by [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stuart had once been coerced by her into delivering food parcels for old people at Christmas because he had a licence and could drive the university van . |
| 2 | All jigs , tools , dies , patterns , moulds and gauges manufactured or supplied by you for us in connection with this order shall become our property and shall be retained by you until disposal instructions are given by us to you which instructions shall be complied with forthwith . |
| 3 | Different qualities and complexes of qualities are registered by me in a temporally extended sequence ; none the less , they are all part of the wider experience of looking at this same bunch of flowers which I assume to exist " out there " . |
| 4 | The deputy head took a similar view , saying that it was constructive , that good points had come out — for example , that relationships were good — and that it had been taken constructively by staff in general because all the things that had been criticized had already been criticized by them in the self-appraisal . |
| 5 | I often thought I should like to have been taught by someone like him . ’ |
| 6 | Needless to say , since the notion that you did not ask anyone over-probing questions would have been regarded by him as an absurdity , he wanted to know what I was going to back . |
| 7 | And he 's gon they are overspending by something like one point one million . |
| 8 | 15.21 — 8 ; Mark 7.24–30 ) , the commissioning to preach of the much-married Samaritan woman ( John 4.7–42 ) ; the acceptance of the ointment of blessing from the sinful woman ( Luke 7.36–50 ) , and the close association with Mary Magdalene , a woman described as having been healed by him from seven demons ( probably a reference to convulsive disease : Luke 8. |
| 9 | It has been suggested that the appropriate test is ‘ whether the parties are making some serious promises or undertakings ’ which are intended by them to be acted and relied upon . |
| 10 | Any tax charge under ss671 and 672 is assessed under Case VI of Schedule D , and the settlor is entitled to any deduction or relief against it as if it had been received by him as income . |
| 11 | In computing the liability to income tax of a settlor chargeable under s677 the same deductions and reliefs shall be allowed as would have been allowed if the amount treated as income by virtue of s677 had been received by him as income . |
| 12 | The undramatic origins of my particular badges , as it were , have been forgotten by everyone except myself . |
| 13 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 14 | The edition of the Selected Essays , which I had picked up in Cairo during the war after my copy had been pinched by someone in the Foreign Service ( whose identity is known to me ) , had a pleasant silk binding , but the paper was of the colour and of the dryness of a tobacco plant . |
| 15 | Under the new law , the only valid excuse for excluding children is that 80% of the flats in a development are occupied by someone aged 55 or more . |
| 16 | Whatever money 's left over that 's not been committed by you , if they find that they 've got fifteen hundred say , that 's not been committed by you at the end of the financial year , that will automatically go into deposit |
| 17 | The other day I came to work wearing a rather sharp tie and somebody said it looked as if it had been designed by somebody with ‘ special needs ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ It could have been added by someone in the scullery , ’ said James , rushing to the defence of Alfred . |
| 19 | I hope that it has n't been done by anybody in the town . |
| 20 | The player , who scored last weekend on his comeback against Partick Thistle , might dwell on the advancement that has recently been made by someone like Eoin Jess , however , and reason that he would be well advised to channel all his energies towards regaining the kind of status that had him as part of Scotland 's European championship squad eight months ago . |
| 21 | As in the case of the banks , the assets of these institutions represent paper claims against money which has been lent by them to the public sector , to industry and to persons . |
| 22 | The argument for this as-if strategy is straightforward enough : civilization is impossible unless the decisions of some well-defined person or group are accepted by everyone as setting public standards that will be enforced if necessary through the police power . |
| 23 | To be sure , if a person accepts the legitimacy of an authority then its instructions are accepted by him as reasons for conforming action . |
| 24 | And what I would like us to do is to be able when we leave here tomorrow , to say that by what we 've learned about one another , and by what we 've actually decided , that we can probably improve what we 're doing by something between five and ten percent . |
| 25 | you know that is the , erm two or three things there , you 're working by yourself in your , your personal preparation prepa preparation are crucial parts , erm , if any of the people were thinking of going to erm , erm , a college , erm , the same sort of thing will arise and I suppose the big difference for if you do n't have lessons then I think I 'm right in saying you do n't necessarily have to go in , I do n't know whether that still applies , erm , you would be expected of course to erm , erm , to turn up at school here , erm , now there are advantages and disadvantages , you may feel that you prefer , knowing on your own what you 're like , you 'll prefer erm some fairly rigid rules , erm , because if there were n't rules you might think you 'd take advantage of us |
| 26 | You 've been bothered by something for ages and just happen to mention it somebody as you 're walking by , Oh yes . |
| 27 | This decision , which honours Cape Verde , has been interpreted by us as a recognition of the unwearying efforts the Capeverdian government and people are making in the struggle to build a new society based on social justice , progress and equal opportunity . |
| 28 | We are going by you without fighting , if you will let us ; but we are going by you anyhow . |
| 29 | ‘ We are going by you without fighting if you will let us , but we are going by you anyhow . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ We are going by you without fighting if you will let us ’ , Joseph warned , ‘ but we are going by you anyhow ’ . |