Example sentences of "let [adv prt] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ms Morrell attempts damage limitation by telling her boss to keep his mouth shut and not rock the boat , but on he goes collecting more enemies and being let down by erstwhile friends . |
| 2 | Evening elegance can be let down by everyday watch wear . |
| 3 | Another charged that Lebanon 's Christians had been let down by President Franois Mitterrand . |
| 4 | English observers felt England had improved and that they dominated periods of the game but were let down by defensive errors . |
| 5 | Like Simpkin , Wood was let down by an erratic serve . |
| 6 | He felt he would have been let down by his fellow journalists . |
| 7 | There was sympathy for Hitler himself , who was continually being let down by his old compatriots . |
| 8 | ONCE again , we had been let down by the refusal of human beings to conform to expected patterns . |
| 9 | Being let down by friends or a lack of public transport not only encouraged drink-driving , it also led young people to accept lifts from friends who had been drinking . |
| 10 | Harnoncourt ( ) , on the other hand , is let down by the unpredictability of his choral forces , and Gardiner ( ) is all sheen and polish , but misses the sense of the ceremonial which lies at the heart of his this most perfect of all choral masterpieces . |
| 11 | Clive expressed his distrust and fear of being let down by a very detached attitude in all his relationships . |
| 12 | To my mind the SRV 's overall appearance is let down by the fingerboard . |
| 13 | I 'm sure I was n't the only young hopeful to feel bitterness and a sense of being let down by those who otherwise inspired us in our guitar playing . |
| 14 | Crusaders , who hammered Wakefield 30-0 in the first round , were never in front and were let down by bad handling in atrocious conditions . |
| 15 | However , I prefer the useful filly BEEBOB , who was let down by her jumping last season but has apparently schooled much better recently . |
| 16 | The judges noted that some enticing covers were let down by their contents , and vice versa , but that ‘ accountability and imagination do not demand a high budget ’ . |
| 17 | Aimed at the dedicated games player with crisp graphics and rapid scaling , it 's let down by short battery life . |
| 18 | The cheapest , the Pocket Gem , worked well but was let down by the software . |
| 19 | Being let down by the program that£s supposed to save your bacon is a disturbing experience — an expensive way to be reminded that you should never again rely on just one back-up . |
| 20 | Well I tried and then I was let down by the group . |
| 21 | The general quality of the whole machine is let down by the tacky keyboard . |
| 22 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 23 | The charge sheet cited " organizational motive " as the prime cause for Gandhi 's murder , together with a belief that the Tamil cause had been let down by India . |
| 24 | The upsurge in interest in how small businesses are funded , reflects growing concern that they 've been let down by the banks , and the realization that they are the most significant source of employment as the country struggles to emerge from the recession . |
| 25 | This did not prevent subsequent British complaints that they had been let down by Washington . |
| 26 | Coun Richmond asked councillors to vote for more talks with the disabled who he felt had been let down by late changes to the scheme . |
| 27 | He said children were being let down by Conservative ‘ pennypinching ’ and adult training was being savaged by a cut in funding . |
| 28 | But Coun. Robson said residents felt they had been let down by the original developers of the site and by Leech . |
| 29 | Distance and size , says Berkeley , are seen in the way that ‘ we see shame or anger in the looks of a man ’ ; though invisible themselves , these feelings are ‘ let in by the eye along with colours and alteration of countenance , which are the immediate objects of vision ’ . |
| 30 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |