Example sentences of "be [verb] [adj] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 2 | The only relief is from being constantly carried and even then the relief may not last or they will want to be carried first by one parent and then the other . |
| 3 | It came into being on the groundswell of the earlier federalist enthusiasm , while still being sufficiently limited and pragmatic to be deemed feasible by senior politicians who themselves were keenly interested in fostering moves towards greater and effective cooperation . |
| 4 | The rain at this end of the island tends to die off towards the end of March , but it has certainly damaged pitches including that at the Government Stadium , which Paterson reckoned would be deemed unplayable by most clubs in Scotland . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |
| 6 | Public law remedies will enable him or her to establish the illegality of the order ; but , unless the applicant can take advantage of some statutory provision for compensation , he or she will have to establish an entitlement to damages in private law if the damage is to be made good by monetary compensation . |
| 7 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 8 | In this sense , the counsellor has to be a mind-reader , but the problem of ‘ reading ’ the true feelings of the individual can be made easier by two factors . |
| 9 | and erm Richard are determined that the work will be done in-house by Regional Railways . |
| 10 | First , where the conduct would not be thought indecent by any right-minded observer , indecent assault could not be committed . |
| 11 | Time and history , and above all the revelation in ( and not merely through ) Jesus Christ , were all too likely to be sold short by this . |
| 12 | Building up relationships with other agencies is time consuming and not always productive , so the links tend to be forged one by one by the few full-time staff available for this important aspect of developing special needs work . |
| 13 | And though some knights might be supplied free by feudal service , household ones had to be maintained by their lords , mercenary ones needed pay , and those with money-fiefs constituted a regular charge on the treasury . |
| 14 | As the French experience following the oil shocks of 1973 and 1979 indicates , the commitments in programme contracts may be rendered meaningless by major changes in the economic forecasting parameters upon which they are based ( Shirley 1983 : 77–80 ) . |
| 15 | Fourier transform integrals of many other waveforms can also be rendered convergent by this means although it must be appreciated that the technique is not universally successful . |
| 16 | Vitamin C This vitamin is present in fresh fruit , particularly orange and grapefruit , and vegetables , including new potatoes , but it can be rendered useless by long storage or over-cooking . |
| 17 | It was a tremendous honour for the Burrows children to be introduced one by one to this famous and huge framed man . |
| 18 | I would not wish here to be thought to be saying more than I am saying : my phrasing of the proposition is intended to stress the negotiation by which meanings are shared among us — not to presuppose some innate psycholinguistic stratum which can be laid bare by mere exposure to the ebb and flow of the dialectic . |
| 19 | ( But it would be a mistake to bring it back — we are bound to hang some unfortunate youth who would later be proved innocent by Ludovic Kennedy . ) |
| 20 | It would be delightful if this pessimistic and disappointed paragraph were to be proved false by subsequent activities . |
| 21 | There are some who think that there is no fun to be found in local government finance , but they can be proved wrong by this debate . |
| 22 | How I would love to be proved wrong by any one of them but parents and boys deserve my honest opinion , however much they may hate me for it . |
| 23 | However , to interchange them ( ’ powerful tea ’ & ’ strong car ’ ) would undoubtedly be judged anomalous by most English speakers . |
| 24 | What is clear is that it is social activities — such as the provision of kindergartens , youth clubs and advice centres — which would be hit first by any change to the levy . |
| 25 | In the UK , for example , economic expans-ions often had to be cut short by restrictive domestic policies as an increased demand for imports led to a deterioration in the balance of payments . |
| 26 | Terrified of choking and terrified that the rope would give way , that she would fall and be eaten alive by those metal teeth , she screwed her eyes tight and prayed . |
| 27 | see that the society returned to sane management , and elected only business men who would look after the society 's interests first , and seeing that the present majority favoured representation by socialists only , they should be fought one by one as they appeared for re-election , until the confidence of the membership , at present abused and outraged , was restored , and the society stood for co-operation pure and simple . |
| 28 | In the days of the Raj , British passengers on the Rajputana State Railway received enviable attention : this handbook is a personalized itinerary for Miss Baring and warns her that she may be kept awake by one train driver 's ‘ unpleasant whistle ’ . |
| 29 | Competitive means ‘ the same quality could not be obtained cheaper by any other means . ’ |
| 30 | Competitive means ‘ the same quality could not be obtained cheaper by any other means . ’ |