Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | I am fascinated by the roads and tracks and the steeplechase phases in Three Day Events . |
2 | On the way to Eric 's first hiding place there had been an uncomfortable few minutes when the doctor 's car , in spite of its prominently displayed red cross , had been stopped by a carabinieri patrol . |
3 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
4 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |
5 | of drivers who reported never speeding , 8% had been stopped by the police ; this rose to 62% for those drivers who admitted to speeding regularly . |
6 | Mr Harris also said ‘ with absolute certainty ’ that any adverse findings by the JDS would have been overturned by the courts . |
7 | The coalition had been joined by the Peasants ' Party and the Peasants ' Alliance . |
8 | This extreme role really depends upon the social researcher deciding whether the means are justified by the ends . |
9 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
10 | Using this notation , the components of the Weyl tensor are given by the expressions ( 10.4 ) It can thus be seen that , although ( 10.2 ) is linear so that different solutions for V can be superposed , the associated gravitational waves can not be simply superposed . |
11 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
12 | Injections of " capital " from this source will probably differ wildly from one partner to the next and so , taking the generalised capital clause at its face value , adjustments to capital sharing ratios will appear to be taking place at annual intervals , whereas no change at all will have been intended by the partners . |
13 | One must look to the contract as a whole to identify the kind of goods that the seller was agreeing to sell and the buyer to buy … where , as in the instant case , the sale ( to use the words of s13 ) is " by sample as well as by description " , characteristics of the goods which would be apparent on reasonable examination of the sample are unlikely to have been intended by the parties to form part of the " description " by which the goods were sold , even though such characteristics are mentioned in references in the contract to the goods that are its subject matter . |
14 | ‘ We 've made it , ’ shouted Tommy , in a voice that might even have been heard by the Germans . |
15 | All the tracks had previously been heard by the reviewers who , almost in passing , noted that it was ‘ naive , energetic and uncomplicated . ’ |
16 | His ‘ system ’ was founded on the principle of the Association of Ideas , a principle which had been recognized by the Greeks and by Locke , but which Hartley used to explain everything . |
17 | In the matter of stop-and-search powers and cautioning decisions there is evidence suggesting that a disproportionate amount of black young males are stopped by the police . |
18 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
19 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
20 | Bureaucrats and civil servants the world over are fascinated by the possibilities . |
21 | A handful of Muslim Generals had been assassinated by the radicals — he himself , a captain then , had narrowly escaped such a fate when a gang with knives and spears had broken into his home . |
22 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
23 | He had been sacked by the sponsors when finally he arrived at the course . |
24 | The organisers of the Church National Housing Coalition described the lobby as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the Churches . |
25 | The organisers of the day ( the Churches of National Housing Coalition ) have hailed it as one of the most effective political campaigns ever to have been undertaken by the churches . |
26 | Interestingly , emphasis has been placed by the decision-makers within these bodies on the individuality of the complainant . |
27 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
28 | Had the trajectory of Labour 's industrial growth been altered by the events of 1926 ? |
29 | ‘ I am very sad , ’ he wrote to me , ‘ about the disgraceful way you have been treated by the Seniors , and because of it I have informed the captain I am resigning . ’ |
30 | So , for example , among the Muslim Somali of north-east Africa , married women are frequently prone to mysterious complaints which are diagnosed by the experts as possession by evil spirits . |