Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [is] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The regime has in fact over-corrected , but the harm which excessive centralisation might do is diminished by the degree of de facto autonomy which many provinces have acquired . |
| 2 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 3 | If your income is more than your ‘ applicable amount ’ the maximum benefit you could get is reduced by 15% ( 15p in every £1 ) of the difference between the applicable amount and the income . |
| 4 | Neurotics may appear to be concerned for others , but this is based on unconscious hostility towards someone , so that their concern that someone may die , or fall very ill unless some particular action of their own is done or not done , really masks an unconscious wish for their death : ‘ … the original wish that the loved person may die is replaced by a fear that he may die ’ . |
| 5 | Some indication of the position which the courts may take is provided by the recent , although pre-1989 Act , decision : |
| 6 | The only difficulty , but it is a considerable one , is that the writer whatever theories he or she may develop is bound by a special clause in the invisible contract with the reader to stick absolutely to any known facts . |
| 7 | ‘ For instance , your great heroism was most admirable , but I 'm sure all Matthew would feel is emasculated by it . ’ |
| 8 | The only indication of how many sheets the thing will take is given by dotted lines on the screen showing page breaks . |
| 9 | The Terrence Higgins Trust/King 's College LIVING WILL form is accompanied by detailed instructions to help you complete it , and will enable you to : |
| 10 | An illustration of the economic damage that flexible exchange rates can inflict is provided by the experience of the UK during 1979 – 81 . |
| 11 | I just do n't know what 's going on , all I can do is wait by the phone and hope I hear something |
| 12 | In contrast , Coltheart ( 1980 ) and Saffran , Bogyo , Schwartz and Marin ( 1980 ) suggested that in deep dyslexia the normal reading system can not operate at all , and that the reading that the patient can manage is mediated by an alternative processing system located in the right hemisphere , a system which might play no role at all in normal reading . |
| 13 | It may be that its functioning is impaired in various ways ; perhaps the extent to which it can suffer is impaired by the sensory deprivation . |
| 14 | The amount of information we can derive is increased by certain factors : the tendency of language to use certain sequences of sounds and not others , familiar sequences of words , systematic syntactic rules and the frame of expectation which surround an utterance . |