Example sentences of "be [adj] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sensitive balance is believed to be upset by the release of CFC 's through the atmosphere , into the stratosphere . |
| 2 | Opponents of Sunday trading will be upset by the scheme , which comes on top of the Government 's refusal yesterday to enforce the Sunday shopping law in general . |
| 3 | It did seem a little hard that , just when things were beginning to go really well , the even tenor of their lives should be upset by the arrival of someone else — someone who , although a friend , was none the less a stranger . |
| 4 | It will be dry by the time we leave for the dance . ’ |
| 5 | She 'll be asleep by the time we get |
| 6 | Often , partners can be depressed by the disinterest that each shows towards the other , and this indicates that such marriages have lost the ability to meet the needs of the individual for companionship . |
| 7 | The Gyda platform should be Halon-free by the end of this month on completion of the installation of the BP fine water spray fire suppression system in the gas turbines , the emergency generator rooms and the fire pump system . |
| 8 | The sport 's governing body announced plans in 1986 for the phasing out of turbos , to be complete by the start of the 1989 season . |
| 9 | It can take at least two to three months if not longer to buy a house and any deal initiated during a housing trip may not be complete by the time the expatriate and family arrives in Britain . |
| 10 | This implies that there is a good chance the processing of the first record will be complete by the time that the second record is located , so that skip-sequential processing win provide benefits . |
| 11 | THE FIRST of the government 's promised annual reviews of research in Britain is almost finished and should be complete by the end of this month . |
| 12 | Work on integrating the HP , Siemens and Bull-derived network management pieces will be complete by the end of the year . |
| 13 | Work on integrating the Hewlett-Packard , Siemens AG and Compagnie des Machines Bull SA-derived network management pieces will be complete by the end of the year . |
| 14 | CDC 's EP/IX version of Unix is currently being melded into SGI 's Irix implementation ( UX No 421 ) , a job that should be complete by the end of the year . |
| 15 | The search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp has moved into top gear and could be complete by the end of next month , the Wall Street Journal reports . |
| 16 | Environmental performance has also been reviewed at a number of companies and this review should be complete by the end of 1993 . |
| 17 | Thus , a tax on capital income may reduce saving and lead to a rise in the gross rate of return ; on the other hand , it may be possible by the use of other taxes and/or monetary policy to offset the effects ( as seen in the discussion of balanced growth incidence ) . |
| 18 | As reflected in the original rich picture , there were concerns about the routine handover of information about the day-to-day condition of residents , and it was obvious that the process of keeping records for a large number of residents was an arduous manual task , indicating that some gains in efficiency might be possible by the introduction of computer support . |
| 19 | Evaluation of GIS hardware ( digitisers , computers , plotters ) and software should begin in 1992 , and a decision on in-house versus contracting-out will be possible by the end of 1992 . |
| 20 | The World Wide Fund for Nature has estimated that 14 per cent of the known 200 species are highly endangered and could be extinct by the year 2000 and that 34 per cent are becoming increasingly vulnerable . |
| 21 | Advocates of the breeding plan , which was instigated by British vet and TV celebrity , David Taylor , claim that unless steps are taken , the seal will be extinct by the year 2000 . |
| 22 | To become mother to a child is to step into a universal role , to be type-cast by the world at large and even by one 's own children . |
| 23 | The long-promised higher frequency Vikings that would go a ways to proving Sparc 's scalability are supposed to be producible by the end of the fourth quarter or the first part of the new year , according to TI . |
| 24 | If the landlord is to have such a power it must be expressly conferred on him ; if the lease is silent as to the person by whom it is exercisable it will be exercisable by the tenant alone ( Wingfield ( L R ) v Clapton Construction Co Ltd ( 1967 ) 201 EG 769 ) . |
| 25 | Mr MacGregor , who supports strongly the principle of loans for students , is believed to be embarrassed by the controversy created by Mr Robert Jackson , the junior minister for higher education , who devised a top-up scheme which has angered backbench Tories and the banks that are supposed to administer it from next September . |
| 26 | Furthermore , as context-stimulus associations are not the sole source of latent inhibition , the model need not be embarrassed by the observation that exposure to the context alone ( either before or after exposure to the target stimulus ) does not abolish the effect . |
| 27 | What we now need to ask is has the time arrived er for this measure to begin to be acceptable by the Home Office , it would be nice if there was a just a little indication er as I 'm er proceeding through er this measure from the minister at the despatch box , that the time was now right for this er particular proposal er which was not anything that was voted against er on second reading but merely failed to overcome the hurdle of getting a closure when by seventy eight votes to nil er it was carried except that carrying was not sufficient in order arrive at a closure so that the measure could move in the committee . |
| 28 | The speculation that the Archbishop of Canterbury 's special envoy , Terry Waite , will be free by the end of this week . |
| 29 | They may then be cross-examined by the respondents . |
| 30 | A hostile witness may be cross-examined by the party calling him . |