Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been pointed out by various ‘ consumer experts ’ and journalists , who feel they have stumbled on a minor scandal that deserves an exposé , that many mineral waters contain significant amounts of metals and salts . |
| 2 | It introduces , as has been pointed out by numerous speakers , the famous eighteen month rule . |
| 3 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 4 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 5 | Societies disintegrate from within more frequently than they are broken up by external pressures . |
| 6 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 7 | The recessed planes are used in places , but more often they are broken up by bold three-quarterings and massings which give a quite different sense of the third dimension . |
| 8 | As these wastes are broken down by physical , chemical , and bacterial action , they gradually form ‘ humus ’ , a highly important binding factor in the formation of stable soil crumbs or tilth and in the transformation of minerals into soluble plant nutrients . |
| 9 | Even chemicals that are broken down by different enzymes may ‘ compete ’ : some enzymes need substances known cofactors to help them do their work , so the two chemicals are ‘ competing ’ for cofactors , rather than for the enzymes themselves . |
| 10 | Along one wall of the warehouse , four loose-boxes had been partitioned off by old refrigerators pushed together , which made very satisfactory walls . |
| 11 | And although there is less new material to play on your deck , second-hand shops are bulging with whole collections that have been turfed out by over-zealous digital converts . |
| 12 | Supervisory duties at break and lunch-time are carried out by non-teaching assistants . |
| 13 | Citation counts are carried out by unskilled operators . |
| 14 | When menial tasks are carried out by large numbers of workers , supervision can be divided by organising the labourers into gangs of equal size . |
| 15 | They are carried out by United Kingdom-based staff , who go overseas on short-term assignments which aim to generate effective techniques of mineral , energy and groundwater resource exploration and development that are applicable to and will find general use in Third World countries . |
| 16 | Cleaning and other domestic duties are carried out by Domestic Assistants , and every EPH has cooking staff , clerical support , and help with gardening and building maintenance , generally provided by a gardener/handyman . |
| 17 | Laps are thermally fused using specially developed welding machinery and all installations are carried out by trained technicians . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 16 NOT all Americans have been won over by Super Mario . |
| 20 | Miss Caroline Crawford , the authority 's spokesman , said : ‘ We can all sneer at people who are caught out by outrageous offers , but it is often a case of the triumph of hope over experience . |
| 21 | As uncertainty about the fate of commercial galleries grows , the burden of showing new artists has been picked up by unexpected agents . |
| 22 | The report warns service providers against offering global ‘ one-stop shopping ’ services , as they may then find that the more attractive routes or services are picked up by other types of provider with cheaper offerings . |
| 23 | The most active elements of the intelligentsia are won over by personal privileges to the prevailing ideology as well as being subject to the prevalent intellectual control while the peasants are tied to the land by economic hardship imposed through short-term , small-unit landholding contracts ( such as sharecropping ) , which discourage capital investment . |
| 24 | Policing issues are never long out of the headlines ( Chibnall 1977 ) , and this media obsession has been transmitted into a wealth of analyses of policing — which have mostly been carried out by outside observers . |
| 25 | There are also clear indications that although the assassinations may have been carried out by low-ranking army officers the orders came from the military high command . |
| 26 | It appeared that the attack had been carried out by extremist forces not under the control of JNA commanders . |
| 27 | Anonymous telephone calls claimed the attack had been carried out by various groups , including Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah , in revenge for Israel 's assassination of the Hezbollah secretary-general Sheikh Abbas Musawi in February [ see p. 38750 ] . |
| 28 | Despite claims that most of the fighting around the town had been carried out by Sihanoukist forces , Western commentators saw the offensive as the work of the Khmers Rouges . |
| 29 | The UN Iran-Iraq Military Observer Group ( UNIIMOG ) , with responsibility for maintaining the truce , reported on March 8 , 1989 , that five Iranian soldiers had been shot in the back and killed in an ambush on Feb. 17 , although it did not confirm an Iranian claim that the ambush had been carried out by Iraqi forces . |
| 30 | A certain amount of the Stuart expansion had been carried out by chartered companies , and the enemies of James II showed relatively little regard for the rights laid down in these charters . |