Example sentences of "be [adv] [vb pp] by [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | jobs which represent an extension of the wife-mother role , such as nursing and teaching , and those which require an attractive image , such as secretaries , are predominantly filled by women . |
| 2 | Erm , I think Yeltsin 's threat as it were to the Ukrainian is actually a diplomatic move , he wants Ukraine to remain within the Soviet Union , er and if it does so he 's not going to make an issue of the border , but , er , if it does break away completely I think what he 's saying is well there 's a frontier that we 're going to have to reconsider because large Eastern areas of Ukraine including huge industrial towns are predominantly populated by Russians . |
| 3 | The benefits of technology transfer are widely recognised by government . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Steroids , which attack the root of asthma , are widely recommended by doctors but they also have side effects and take effect only after about a week . |
| 6 | These are widely used by judges , and clients are becoming aware of them . |
| 7 | The ICC 's Incoterms are widely used by exporters and forwarders involved in the shipment of goods . |
| 8 | Footpath erosion is also a common feature of landscapes that are widely used by walkers . |
| 9 | ( The effects of collection size have been little mentioned by writers on online catalogues , perhaps because many of the writers are from North America and are used to university libraries which are larger than many national collections . ) |
| 10 | The proposal , to help fund fisheries work , had been widely condemned by farmers and landowners . |
| 11 | This technique has been widely adopted by researchers in recent years . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But their findings have been widely disseminated by Kelly in an interview on the BBC World Service programme Science in Action , where he stressed the significance of the new insight that a large-scale disruption of hemisphere-wide circulation mechanisms could be produced by events in the tropics . |
| 14 | Our new 24 page full colour schools booklet has been widely acclaimed by teachers and pupils as the best AIDS resource they have ever seen . |
| 15 | The title has been widely purchased by hobbyists , student , trainees , colleges , training departments and a very wide range of retail and industrial organisations over the past four years . |
| 16 | Moving now to collective political responses , the problems of political protest by the peasantry have been widely discussed by Shanin ( 1973 ) , Alavi ( 1973 ) , Cohen et al. , eds ( 1979 ) . |
| 17 | As had been widely predicted by criminologists and other commentators , the detention centres with the new harsher regimes were no more successful than detention centres with unmodified regimes in terms of the reconvic-tion rates of their ex-inmates ( Home Office , 1994b ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This was particularly the case when Marcia Williams , having been powerfully lobbied by Arnold Wesker , was determined to persuade Harold Wilson to bestow some extra support on ‘ Centre 42 ’ , which was Wesker 's notion of an organisation to supervise the growth of the arts in this country . |
| 21 | It would be almost inconceivable with his passion , that Green would not have been powerfully influenced by Wordsworth and , as will be shown later , in turn , reciprocated this effect . |
| 22 | The captain is now advised to store it in a bank , after it has been duly admired by friends and family , though I know one captain kept it under his bed , causing his mother a lot of sleepless nights ! |
| 23 | These again have been intensively studied by Bagnold ( 1941 ) who distinguishes between the small-scale sand ripples and ridges and the large-scale dunes . |
| 24 | Promising areas for gold include Glen Almond in the southern part of the Scottish Highlands , and west of Omagh in Northern Ireland where the Lack prospect has been intensively drilled by RioFinex . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 27 | NCR Corp , Sequent Computer Systems Inc and Unisys Corp are all planning to see that May 17 — ‘ Pentium Day ’ — is not totally dominated by the personal computer end of the business : like just about every other Intel Corp customer , these companies are bursting to talk about their high-end Pentium systems , but have been forcibly gagged by Intel from doing so : NCR was luckier than most in that it got a ten minute portion of the huge Intel presentation at Cebit in Hannover last month devoted to its eight-processor Pentium monster , but with the model number carefully removed . |
| 28 | Individuals ( who know where their own best interests lie ) participate in politics through groups and are effectively represented by groups . |
| 29 | Deaf people are effectively discouraged by regulations from training as teachers of the deaf . |
| 30 | But the pyracantha berries , again well displayed against the background of the cottage wall , will last until they are eventually devoured by blackbirds that will probably nest against the wall in spring , if protected by dense pyracantha leaves |