Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of technology transfer are widely recognised by government . |
| 2 | One problem that is more commonly encountered in the Z3 than in the Z1 or Z2 Carbonates , is that the sediments are widely affected by cementation and replacement by halite . |
| 3 | The latest implementation , X Window Version 11 Release 3 , emerged a year ago , and has been widely adopted by Unix suppliers and by DEC , with Unix ( Ultrix ) and VAX VMS versions . |
| 4 | The result had been widely predicted by opinion polls which showed that the Labour Party ( in government since 1984 ) had lost the confidence of the electorate . |
| 5 | More recent authority has however expressed the view that planning law is of a ‘ public character , ’ and that the courts should not introduce private law principles unless these are expressly authorised by parliament or are necessary to give effect to the legislative purpose . |
| 6 | properly will depend on either the specific instructions given to him or arguments about the implied duties of an expert conducting a reference : for three possible examples , see 14.8 , 14.9 and 14.10. a breach of the implied duty under s14 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 , unless there is a specific time provision or the duty has been expressly excluded by agreement with the parties . |
| 7 | This domination of the surface space by parking results in insufficient planting , so that the alternate lines of cars and canyon-like streets are inadequately softened by greenery . |
| 8 | Although covered by thick Tertiary basalts and Lough Neagh Clay , its western margin has been successfully mapped by reconnaissance Vibroseis . |
| 9 | In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics . |
| 10 | In fact , pay-scales are mostly fixed by reference to other jobs in their sector rather than the rest of the art world , let alone in industry or the professions . |
| 11 | Among the developing nations that are worst affected by soil erosion are Mexico , Ethiopia and many more African states , as well as India , Pakistan and China ( see review in Brown and Wolf 1984 ) . |
| 12 | He was entitled , I supposed , to his small exploratory excursion around my character ; and if he himself , I thought , had been wholly fulfilled by uniform , he would still be in it . |
| 13 | To make matters worse , the monopolistic character of the sector has been blatantly exploited by trade unions , though over the longer run this has probably resulted in major job losses since most of the industries are subject to competition in the form of alternative goods . |
| 14 | It would have been mostly done by hand . |
| 15 | Some of Thomas Hardy 's leading characters are relentlessly pursued by fate ; they come to grief through sequences of evil coincidences no less remarkable than those by means of which the earlier heroes of Evangelical literature had been saved . |
| 16 | Prior to the meeting , a delegation of Amazon Indians visited Dayak communities in Sarawak whose land had been badly affected by logging . |
| 17 | In recent years , the tribe has been badly affected by malaria , measles and other diseases brought in by prospecting miners , and by inroads into their traditional forest lands . |
| 18 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
| 19 | The money raised by the event will help to rebuild the Children 's Hospital in Osijek , which has been badly damaged by shellfire . |
| 20 | The fact is your house has been badly damaged by fire . ’ |
| 21 | A block of residential flats at Elsfield near Oxford has been badly damaged by fire . |
| 22 | His throat had been badly scarred by praxis gas during a bankruptcy action three years ago , and his words came out sounding like fingernails scratching glass . |
| 23 | ( This system has , however , been effectively outflanked by satellite — see below . ) |
| 24 | The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 . |
| 25 | We are constantly bombarded by advertising which recommends … products . |
| 26 | However the balance has been somewhat redressed by recruitment to the BA courses and by in-service courses for qualified teachers which in 1982 raised its student numbers to about 385 . |
| 27 | Libya had a wealthier , more urbanized , more stably employed population than any of them and , by every canon of development science , Libyans ought to have been less influenced by atavism than other North Africans . |
| 28 | Turnover from this region grew 260% to £1.3m , because , Turner says , it seems to have been less affected by recession than other parts of Europe , and a lot of multinationals are based there . |
| 29 | Our data might have been less affected by bias than those in other studies because we considered only women in whom the primary diagnosis was endometriosis . |
| 30 | In some respects the stockman has been less affected by mechanization , although this depends upon which type of worker we are considering . |