Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 2 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 3 | In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft . |
| 4 | Antoine Becquerel ( 1852–1908 ) observed that similar rays are given off by uranium . |
| 5 | In SAS style officers from the Royal Ulster Constabulary bomb disposal squad are flown in by helicopter . |
| 6 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 7 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 8 | These words are pointed out by means of accent . |
| 9 | It has often been pointed out by commentators that there is an ambiguity in Tocqueville 's discussion . |
| 10 | However , that this is not the case had been pointed out by Professor Lodge , of the Department of French Studies in Newcastle University , in a letter to the Guardian , in which he argues that it is a matter of concern that ‘ A level presentations in modern languages are falling away sharply , particularly among boys ’ . |
| 11 | It has been pointed out by Gospel that ‘ managers ’ themselves can not be defined simply as being either employers or employees , since for the majority of them their role is ( simultaneously ) of a dual nature : |
| 12 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 13 | It has recently been pointed out by Dr J. R. Studd that ‘ one of [ the Lord ] Edward 's greatest problems was his inability to settle lands from his appanage [ of Gascony and the isle of Oléron ] on those who gave him loyal service in a traditional way ’ . |
| 14 | It has been pointed out by Dr Baugh that if rising levels of poor-relief expenditure are expressed in per capita terms and related to wheat prices , the real level of poor-relief spending was fairly constant from the early 1790s to 1814 . |
| 15 | Such a view is easily reconciled with Marxist theory , as has been pointed out by E. Terray [ Terray , 1977a ] . |
| 16 | The synapsis of sign has already been pointed out by Hirtle ( 1967 : 21 ) , but the reason suggested for it — namely , that the infinitive has the meaning " event time not yet actualized " and the non-past indicative implies " event in the not yet stretch of universe time " — will have to be re-examined . |
| 17 | This has already been pointed out by Hoffman but his advice has been ignored . |
| 18 | However , as has been pointed out by Hills , there are four main factors that affect learning in practical situations : motivation , activity , understanding , feedback . |
| 19 | Dr P 's argument disguises the reality that , as has been pointed out by writers as diverse as Spender ( 1981a ) and Eagleton ( 1983 ) , only a small group of people , historically , have participated in deciding which literature gets the best ‘ results ’ . |
| 20 | One of the difficulties in designing this type of interface has been pointed out by Caruso , in that the design of IIDA was finalized prior to DIALOG 's introduction of SS — Select Steps command — so these are not included in IIDA . |
| 21 | It has been pointed out by feminists that the tradition which depends upon this demarcation line fails to give a satisfactory account of conflicts that arise in the private sphere . |
| 22 | It has also been pointed out by Kendall ( 1975 ) that the original 1936 legislation on union rights within the enterprise gave the ‘ most representative ’ unions in the plant the right to bargain , which was not necessarily the majority union . |
| 23 | However , it has been pointed out by Dr. B. Leadbeater , that great care must be taken before these formulae are used to determine the efficiency of dilution for abatement of odour nuisance , for in order to achieve concentrations below the threshold detection levels some odorants would need diluting by a factor in order of 6,000 , so unless very high chimneys are contemplated this method only provides a limited answer . |
| 24 | This has been pointed out by Lind ( 1983 : 271 ) , who adduces the following examples to show that there is " no correlation between active participation and omission of to " : ( 23 ) … he said briefly , helping me climb in through the rear window . |
| 25 | It has been pointed out by Ochshorn that Jesus ' message is evidently addressed basically to men . |
| 26 | Bits of some letters are lost ; the strokes of others become uneven ; spaces are filled in by toner , making an e , say , indistinguishable from an o . |
| 27 | Marsh grasses , like the tall , coarse Spartina genus , are broken down by bacteria to form detritus , food for shellfish . |
| 28 | WHILE we are about it , I have been told of another effect that , for heaven 's sake , could not have been stumbled on by Francis Bacon . |
| 29 | In March 1965 a civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery , Alabama , had been broken up by police . |
| 30 | A protest by badger lovers who chained themselves to railings at a Ministry of Agriculture culling centre has been broken up by police . |