Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 2 | ‘ The composition listens for the listener … [ both ] are kneaded by the same mode of production … [ creating ] a pre-established harmony … between production and consumption … |
| 3 | The degree of dispersion away from these concentrations has been limited by the same forces that have prevented low-income people in general from moving into suburban environments , combined with a desire for being amongst their own people in an essentially alien culture . |
| 4 | Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s . |
| 5 | Moreover , evidence from recent research by Hammersley and Scarth suggests that patterns of whole-class teacher-pupil talk do not differ significantly between courses that are assessed by terminal examinations , ones that are continuously assessed , and ones that are not assessed at all — even when these differently assessed courses are taught by the same teacher and within the same subject . |
| 6 | But all of the most powerful posts — economy , foreign affairs , defence , interior , justice , education — are filled by the same old faces . |
| 7 | In a journey back through the history of crime and delinquency , Pearson shows that for generations Britain has been plagued by the same problems and fears as today . |
| 8 | At this stage , the infant can not cope with the contradiction implied by the fact that two opposing feelings are aroused by the same object . |
| 9 | ‘ So far in our investigation we are aware of at least ten loyalist prisoners who have been interviewed by the same policemen . |
| 10 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 11 | At a press conference the Prime Minister , Carl Bildt , agreed that it was likely that the surveillance equipment had been installed by the former Soviet authorities , but he insisted that it was Russia 's responsibility , as the successor state , to remove them . |
| 12 | Because the glial growth factors and specific activators of the p185 erbB2 receptor are encoded by the same gene , we suggest that the formation of tumours derived from Schwann cells , and perhaps from other glial sources , is regulated by the supply of glial growth factors and by the activity of the p185 erbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase . |
| 13 | And these roles are are occupied by the same people every year ? |
| 14 | It is the ‘ all'-inclusive macro-redistributive studies that capture most interest in general , but these are the studies that are beset by the most problems at all levels . |
| 15 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 16 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 17 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 18 | Two building societies and a bank have been robbed by the same man in less than three hours . |
| 19 | Thus , the adjectives are prerecorded by the same speaker , at a rate of one every three seconds , and played back to subjects . |
| 20 | He expected European countries to put pressure on Arab countries to enter into direct negotiations with Israel , and claimed that the EC 's trust in the PLO to relinquish terrorism had been exploited by the latter . |
| 21 | Since the models under consideration are made by the same firm ( Fleck and Drucker ) , the politique des auteurs is inescapable . |
| 22 | The Government has been told by the former Lord-Justice General that its appointment of temporary judges in Scotland 's courts could lead to miscarriages of justice . |
| 23 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 24 | Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds . |
| 25 | This contrasts with the YTM procedure ( shown in ( 5.10 ) ) , in which all cash flows are discounted by the same yield to maturity . |
| 26 | When comparing engine powers , make sure all are measured by the same system or convert one to another ( imp hp × 1.014 = metric hp or ps ; imp hp × 0.746 = kW ; ps × 0.736 = kW ) . |
| 27 | Thus , where substantial quantities of the same material equipment or products are discovered , archaeologists tend to assume that they must have been produced by the same people . |
| 28 | ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash . |
| 29 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 30 | If several actions have been performed by the same people then , if the sentences describing the events are active , the same subject will have to be repeated , e.g. : |