Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [noun sg] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man picked up a small portmanteau that had been hidden in shadow by the rail , and with one last sweeping look across the quay , climbed on to the gangplank . |
| 2 | The texts , which are generally agreed to have forged elements in them , have been examined in detail by several scholars , and there are only two preliminary remarks which need to be made . |
| 3 | The statistical correlation studies have been many and varied and they have been examined in detail by both Blaug and Bowman and there is no need to repeat the discussion here . |
| 4 | The development of one south London suburb has been examined in detail by Professor H. J. Dyos in his classic work , Victorian Suburb : A Study of the Growth of Camberwell ( 1961 ) . |
| 5 | Studies defining the immediate 5' flanking sequences of class II MHC genes and their associated DNA-binding proteins ( 5-10 ) , as well as transgenic mouse models containing DNA constructs covering the promoter proximal sequences have been examined in detail by other groups ( 5,11-13 , ) . |
| 6 | So far convoys of humanitarian aid have been stopped at will by the militias and held up for days , if not weeks , despite their protection by armed UN peacekeepers . |
| 7 | In May Justice Minister Kinkel announced that priority was to be given to the rehabilitation and compensation of victims of the SED regime , ahead of pursuing those accused of committing crimes or of assessing compensation claims of those who had been dispossessed of property by the regime . |
| 8 | They are completed by hand by the scientist at or near the time of the work being recorded and form a chronological , step by step log of what was planned , what was done and the results gained . |
| 9 | In the marble version the struts have been banished from sight by designing the statue to be seen from a restricted viewpoint . |
| 10 | And since grazing leases are treated as property by the Internal Revenue Service and are taxed accordingly , who could pay for managing public lands if the cows were given the boot ? |
| 11 | In doing so it has been heaped with opprobrium by other sections of the left ( see Kettle , 1984 ) . |
| 12 | Uncured pork from a firm at Wisbech , Cambs , has been withdrawn from sale by supermarkets and shops . |
| 13 | All this work has been undertaken with enthusiasm by teachers and on a voluntary basis , in a period of severe industrial action when teacher morale and goodwill were at unprecedentedly low levels . |
| 14 | Plans by a consortium of British nature bodies to buy the heart of the Cairngorm range in Scotland have been placed in doubt by the government 's failure to meet a promise to cover the running costs . |
| 15 | The defendant 's employees had been placed in danger by being required to work in a confined space with a petrol driven engine producing poisonous fumes . |
| 16 | Would a rescuer be denied an action on the ground of ex turpi causa , e.g. if one burglar was injured attempting to assist another who had been placed in danger by the dangerous condition of the house they were breaking into ? |
| 17 | The ‘ progressives ’ were alarmed by the fact that the document produced by the preparatory commission on the liturgy had been altered between approval by the central commission ( over which the pope himself presided ) and reaching the Council itself . |
| 18 | A labourer has been crushed to death by a cement lorry . |
| 19 | A woman rider has been crushed to death by her own horse during a trials event . |
| 20 | Thus in Alpine regions transhumance systems , in which the mountain pastures are grazed in summer by sheep and cattle with the latter being in-wintered at lower elevations while the sheep flocks scavenge on arable farms during winter , are in marked contrast with the settled agriculture involving year-round grazing of sheep on a specific area of land which is characteristic of UK hill sheep farming . |
| 21 | has been enrolled in error by the centre |
| 22 | Dominated by an economy based on cereal crops , the region had been plunged into recession by a series of poor harvests in the 1830 s . |
| 23 | Very slender ideas with which to cover such large areas , very slender indeed , but nobody has ever complained of monotony ; rather we are filled with wonder by an experience so moving and poetic . |
| 24 | Several groups of Communes are in the LFA Zone de Montagne ; in the Rochefort-Montagne Commune of Puy-de-Dome much encouragement has been given to remembrement by M. Giscard d'Estaing who resides in the area and is in favour of ‘ progressive ’ agriculture . |
| 25 | The UDR , which is predominantly Protestant , has traditionally been regarded with distrust by many nationalists . |
| 26 | Perhaps the biggest area of misunderstanding here is in our approach to our American customers and competitors , where we are lulled into complacency by our similar language . |
| 27 | They are aroused to activity by others , by friendship , by relating . |
| 28 | Two thirds of Brazilian Amazonia ( 3.8 million sq kms ) have been designated for development by the end of this century . |
| 29 | The men , accused of robbing John Stiffs estate agents in St Osyth on January 29 and a Chinese takeaway in Coppins Road , Clacton , on December 12 , had been remanded in custody by magistrates . |
| 30 | Akawi , 33 , a Palestinian from East Jerusalem , had been remanded in custody by a military court on Feb. 3 . |