Example sentences of "be [verb] by [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had reached the grave , and Ace obediently turned to face the crowd , so that they could n't see her freed hands , which had previously been hidden by Petion 's body . |
| 2 | All these are policed by Gloucestershire 's royal protection squad — and the county 's tax payers contrubute a million pounds towards the bill , which comes out of the police budget . |
| 3 | He completely misjudged the question , and his translation was ignored by churchmen as well as by the editor of the influential Monthly Review , who had been irritated by Smart 's angry response to earlier criticism , and dismissed it with short shrift . |
| 4 | While they had been delayed by Duvall 's attack on Devlin , the thing had withdrawn from the basement window and lurched through the storm to the front of the building . |
| 5 | I have always been fascinated by Magritte 's work ; I have met all his friends , and I worked on his archives for six years . |
| 6 | France went to war with less than 150 planes , and Germany few more ; nevertheless , after the first month the Commandant 's opinion had already been refuted by Galliéni 's use of aircraft to spy out von Kluck 's classic mistake on the Marne . |
| 7 | The Trimdon seven , incidentally , are joined by Hartlepool 's Keith Nobbs who like them went to Sedgefield Comp but is definitely a foreigner . |
| 8 | In recent years dismissals have been justified much more in terms of the need to rationalize the labour force in the face of external economic problems which are compounded by Japan 's ageing population . |
| 9 | As late as the 1960s the translations and imitations of Robert Lowell , who had sat at Tate 's feet , were widely supposed to have been validated by Pound 's precedent in this kind of writing , whereas in truth Lowell 's Imitations allowed themselves liberties such as Pound would never have condoned . |
| 10 | Any chance of the former had been negated by Britain 's failure to topple Nasser at Suez ; and the latter was unlikely for some years because the aircraft did not , as yet , exist ; and the RAF had no real enthusiasm for providing the necessary money to buy them out of Air votes , which they quite naturally wanted to use for combat and not transport aircraft . |
| 11 | This view has rarely been developed by Freud 's critics . |
| 12 | Block 36 , in North West Frontier Province , contains the Ramak prospect which has been developed by LASMO 's exploration department in Karachi . |
| 13 | Most of the holly the Pack had to distribute had been given by Anne 's father , who was a greengrocer . |
| 14 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 15 | Special training in social policy work has been given by NACAB 's Information Retrieval Group in several areas , and it was seen there that advice workers could be convinced of the benefit of social policy work but their budget did not allow further development of this programme . |
| 16 | Furthermore , although I recognise that the powers of the Director are circumscribed by section 1(3) and the opening words of section 2(1) , so as to relate only to the investigation of suspected offences , it remains true that the powers which I have summarised are concerned with ‘ the affairs ’ of the suspect , and these must to my mind extend beyond the matters which have caused the charge to be laid . |
| 17 | The significance and the complexities of the relationship which gives rise to the caring , and the importance of understanding what both parties wish for in the relationship , have always been emphasized by carers ' organizations . |
| 18 | Two of the new pieces , To Comfort Ghosts and another tentatively titled New Dance are choreographed by LCDT 's new artistic director Dan Wagoner . |
| 19 | The death threats had been provoked by Motoshima 's suggestion in December 1988 that Emperor Hirohito ( who was at the time dying of cancer ) bore some responsibility , " as do all of us who lived in that period " , for Japan 's role in the Pacific War of 1941-45 . |
| 20 | A large woman of formidable appearance , who had been passing the open door of the coffee lounge and whose attention had been caught by Amaranth 's evident distress , came over to them . |
| 21 | French resolve against Libyan-inspired terrorism , which was in doubt during the US raid in 1986 , has been stiffened by Libya 's action in blowing up the UTA flight from Brazzaville to Paris on Sept 19 , 1989 , in which 171 died . |
| 22 | The regulations are supplemented by LCH 's Default Rules , a corpus of provisions having effect pursuant to s 156 of and Sched 21 to the Companies Act 1989 . |
| 23 | Welsh singer Katell Keinig ( below ) and American Marie McKeen ( top ) have been attracted by Dublin 's sense of community . |
| 24 | This possibility , which was suggested some years ago , has recently been reproposed by Hall et al who studied the development of gluten sensitive enteropathy in the Irish setter , an animal model of human coeliac disease . |
| 25 | The sense of betrayal has been deepened by London 's refusal to acknowledge any moral responsibility to provide general refuge ; instead , it has claimed that domestic political considerations demand the exclusion of potentially millions of Chinese immigrants . |
| 26 | Throughout my life I have been oppressed by society 's expectations , so the man in my life is not to blame for my constant questioning of what life can offer me , and women like me . |
| 27 | But the earlier glow Markby had gained in the church had been dispersed by Tom 's call . |
| 28 | By the time one gets to Derrida , the latest and youngest of the sequence , Nietzsche 's myth of art has itself been dissolved by Derrida 's pervasive irony : ‘ If Nietzsche is an ironic mythmaker , Derrida seems only ironic : the radicality of his irony undermines any pretension to myth . |
| 29 | The mechanism of sudden arrhythmic death has been clarified by Milner et al who analysed Holter tapes of 13 patients who suffered cardiac arrests . |
| 30 | A £1,000 grant has been recommended by Langbaurgh 's finance committee towards the provision of a ramp for disabled people to have access to Scaling Dam sailing club which has a specially adapted dinghy for them to enjoy the sport . |