Example sentences of "remind by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am reminded by the recommendation for dealing with bed bugs published in The Vermin Killer in 1680 — ‘ Take gunpowder , brush it well into the bedstead , light it , and keep the smoke in . ’ |
| 2 | We are reminded by the silences in Leapor 's texts that the pursuit of happiness as an enabling myth , in terms of official precept accessible to women through romantic love and marriage , remains in this period largely a privilege of bourgeois male subjects . |
| 3 | It would hence require 1000 times as much food and would excrete 1000 times as much waste products , as we are reminded by the distinguished early twentieth-century biologist J.B.S. Haldane in his famous work On Being the Right Size . |
| 4 | After bullying the Queen into paying income tax ‘ like everybody else ’ the Government has been embarrassingly reminded by the Birt affair of the many high earners who do not by any means pay tax like everybody else . |
| 5 | We are frequently reminded by the media and by professionals of various kinds of the size of the increase which is to be expected in the number of those aged over 75 or 85 years by the end of the century . |
| 6 | Characteristically he was reminded by the life of the old politician , product of Edgbaston , long-term resident of South Kensington , of the rhythms of the English countryside . |
| 7 | Coincidentally , the UK Government 's Department of Health launches a ‘ Help us to help you ’ campaign , wherein sick people are advised how not to waste the limited funds available for their treatment ( ‘ … remember to cancel appointments if they can not be kept … ’ ) and reminded by the Secretary of State for Health that ‘ Our primary care system is also the source of considerable envy abroad ’ , as I was reminded again during a recent trip to Russia . |