Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends . |
| 2 | It had been hidden by the mother , a 16-year-old pupil who kept her pregnancy secret even from her parents . |
| 3 | PETER BURNS , head of the Sheffield World Student Games organisation , has been dismissed by the company which is organising the event , Universiade GB Ltd . |
| 4 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 5 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 6 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 7 | Protests from shop owners in Sunderland over increased parking charges have been dismissed by the city 's director of engineering Tom Ball who said that city parking was still amongst the cheapest in the country . |
| 8 | ‘ I am fascinated by the idea of focus . |
| 9 | I am fascinated by the use of the English language , I do not wish to undermine it , but , as I would argue , it does overtly undermine 50 percent of its users ( i.e. women ) . |
| 10 | I am fascinated by the difference in the markings on ( some ) of these aircraft . |
| 11 | It may not be strictly within my remit , but I am fascinated by the amount of space that is being lavished , particularly by the Sunday Times , on the new list of ‘ The Best of Young British Novelists ’ . |
| 12 | These are important policy issues which have been examined by the author , as well as other commentators , elsewhere and which merit further critical analysis ( e.g. Hudson , 1990 ; Phillipson , 1990 ; Hughes , 1991 ; Osborne , 1991 ) . |
| 13 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 14 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 15 | Competing with Mr Perv for Norris 's affections is true crime author Jack Lansford ( Tom Berenger ) whose interest has been aroused by the building 's grisly past . |
| 16 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 17 | However , this may have been overturned by the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 18 | The Assembly , dissolved on Sept. 28 , had been recalled by the government of President Hugh Desmond Hoyte on Dec. 3 and had passed a bill restoring the seats of opposition members . |
| 19 | The songs are produced by males when they rub their wings together , and are heard by the female through the ears on her front legs ; they are familiar to us from night-time walks , or the vicarious experience of the cinema . |
| 20 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 21 | If , if anybody is interested , these unemployment rates are calculated by the number of unemployed as a percentage of the estimated total of the workforce , the sum of the unemployed claimants , employees , and call it self-employed , H M Forces and participants in work related training programmes . |
| 22 | Whether or not the wine has been blended by the solera method or by actual blending , it is made up in lotes and left to rest until the parts have ‘ married ’ . |
| 23 | For the shoot , Colin , C and Jhelisa have been joined by the rest of the touring band , keyboard player Robert Graham and drummer Gavin Knight . |
| 24 | They have now been joined by the Double Knit gauge ( SK860 ) and probably , by the time you read this , by the fine gauge ( SK830 ) . |
| 25 | I understand that they are policed by the State Veterinary Service , but where the wholesomeness of the animals ' feed is involved , the Environmental Health Service may be brought in . |
| 26 | She had been irritated by the cook 's refusal of her offer to make a simple white sauce , though Mrs Cranbrook was up to her eyes in work . |
| 27 | Blanche 's eyes widened slightly , as though she had been irritated by the reply . |
| 28 | While some nightmares like this are consummated by the monster 's actually making an appearance , it is not necessary — the terror may never become actualized . |
| 29 | The ‘ middle-class ’ witches are dismissed by the ascetics as a ‘ weird bunch of ecology freaks ’ . |
| 30 | What is really new about this vision , though ( the non-affluent have always serviced the affluent ) is that hedonism becomes the moral dynamo of the economy : pleasures are justified by the work they provide , having fun becomes a moral duty . |