Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] from [noun pl] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its essential features had few clear and unqualified expressions , but it was a civilization which had come to be distinguished from others by the emphasis it placed on the individual , by its increasing separation of social and political institutions , by its material wellbeing , and by its growing rationality . |
| 2 | Stoats generally construct their own small-diameter breeding chambers underground but I have known a stoat to be evicted from burrows by ferrets . |
| 3 | Clerical grants , although generally dependable , were never to be taken for granted ; they had to be extracted from convocations by promises of redress , by divisions caused among the clergy , by desperate appeals , forceful delegations of royal councillors , veiled threats , relentless pressure and astute management . |
| 4 | Their distress and sadness about the predicament of their partner will be no different although it may be concealed from others by awkwardness about their sexual preference . |
| 5 | In the normal form all such clauses will be eliminated from conditionals by using |
| 6 | One skipper who sought to reduce the carnage discovered that trapped dolphins could be released from nets by the use of a manoeuvre which came to be known as ‘ backdown . ’ |