Example sentences of "[be] [adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These slightly altered protein molecules are mass-produced by the protein-making machines inside the developing brain cells . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , Malvern District Council are embarrassed by the whole affair . |
| 3 | The English public are embarrassed by the national team . |
| 4 | ‘ I myself , being an arborophile , am delighted by the dense coniferous forests of the Neolithic period . |
| 5 | Girls are not uninterested in science , they are bored by the limited version of it they meet in school . |
| 6 | She had always disliked them , had never for a moment been able to see their virtues ; she had been bored by the classical , and had felt a positive , righteous contempt for the baroque and the neo-Gothic . |
| 7 | Graham Gooch insisted there would be ‘ no wholesale changes ’ for the second Test , which begins at Lord 's on Thursday week , but the captain and his fellow selectors will have been dismayed by the worrying lack of technique and substance shown by most of the team at Old Trafford . |
| 8 | Thus the papers are relieved by the new , softer , explicitly pacifist and green hip-hop , like De La Soul ; or by reformed characters ; or by rappers who turn out to be pillars of the community ( Run DMC funding Sunday schools , or KRS-One starting a Stop The Violence campaign ) . |
| 9 | ‘ We are alarmed by the reckless way in which the Government seems determined to press ahead with oil prospecting against the advice of its official advisers on nature conservation ’ , ( 3 ) said CPRW 's Director , Dr Neil Caldwell . |
| 10 | We are alarmed by the British Government 's elaborate preparations for war — the reported printing of draft papers , for example , — and we will oppose any future government attempts to conscript people into a bloody war . |
| 11 | She might also have been incensed by the negative portrayal of homosexuality in the movie . |
| 12 | The doubts as to whether costs will be available to a party and the possibility that what costs are payable by the other party will not cover the full costs of seeking legal assistance are powerful factors in decisions as to whether and when to settle . |
| 13 | But in others turnover has soared and shop managers are delighted by the new rules . |
| 14 | He had been alarmed by the narrowly-averted disaster of the previous evening , and felt the need to assert his presence . |
| 15 | Several of the projects are joint-funded by the Overseas Development Administration . |
| 16 | Drugs counsellors say they 're alarmed by the growing addiction rates . |
| 17 | If you 're confused by the latest hi-tech advances in stereo TV or Satellite Television these are the people to cut through all the irritating jargon . |
| 18 | Also some TV sets are confused by the fudged signal and display pictures which are either too small or unstable . |
| 19 | But Charlemagne would have been horrified by the Babylonic pride and the Byzantine iconodulism of this page . |
| 20 | Like Jesus , they would have been horrified by the very idea , regarding it as the most appalling blasphemy . |
| 21 | If they do not , they are pre-empted by the conventional terms since those have priority ( e.g. , Aronoff , 1976 ; Clark and Clark , 1979 ; Hofmann , 1982 ; Kiparsky , 1983 ; Zwanenburg , 1981 ) . |
| 22 | Kuzmitch did mention that Blake had been unimpressed by the American and British intervention in South Korea but so too were a lot of other people . |
| 23 | We have found that a lot of newcomers to Spectra line have been confused by the very term ‘ sleeving ’ . |
| 24 | Occasionally hounds , which have been confused by the differing horn calls have been led onto the road , knocked over and killed . |
| 25 | Many towns in southern California are bewildered by the new duties the plan would impose on them and the new taxes that would be needed . |
| 26 | Not surprisingly , some foster parents are bewildered by the bad behaviour . |
| 27 | Restaurants , antique and craft shops can be found in and around the township and in addition to the Castle currently undergoing environmental works , visitors are intrigued by the thriving ancient Corporation with its Portreeve , Jury and Common Attorney etc. which retains with pride local customs dating back to its 13th Century Charter . |
| 28 | On visits to the golf course since his son 's death , Mr Allan said , he had not been impressed by the new safety fence or by the position of two new lifebelts near the quarry . |
| 29 | He was familiar with Pound 's writing on Japanese drama , and had been impressed by the first performance of At the Hawk 's Well when he had seen a well-known Japanese dancer take the role of the hawk . |
| 30 | Mr. Wright added that the committee had been impressed by the prompt action by Teiman . |