Example sentences of "be [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before the accident , he had snatched his favourite toy from his brother and had been stopped by his mother from hitting him over the head . |
| 2 | Curiosity may have been aroused by their performances but , according to Watman , ‘ they enjoyed incredible popularity at the time and there was never any suggestion of race as a factor ’ ( personal communication , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Thus , on Jan. 30 parliament co-opted 120 new members to replace CPCz members who had resigned or who had been recalled by their constituencies . |
| 4 | There were 180,000 guestworkers in East Germany including 40,000 Vietnamese as well as Mozambicans and Cubans ; 40,000 North Koreans had been recalled by their government when demonstrations threatened the old regime . |
| 5 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 6 | She had been joined by her two travelling companions . |
| 7 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 8 | The Scottish No1 , Russell Devine , has been joined by his Inverness team-mate , Dave Allan , and both have just set new personal bests . |
| 9 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 10 | It is , of course , true that such officers in many cases have powers which enable them to do lawfully what a private person might not do , but the question whether their acts are justified by their powers must be decided in proceedings before the ordinary courts . |
| 11 | Those who are called according to its rules are justified by their reward . |
| 12 | All agree that some of our beliefs are justified by their relation to other beliefs . |
| 13 | IN A thoughtful leader , The Feudal Times and Reactionary Herald deals with the issues of the forthcoming General Election : ‘ A considerable number of our readers , we need hardly point out , are debarred by their rank ( and a few for other reasons ) from casting votes for the membership of the new House of Commons . |
| 14 | Recorded last year in Nancy , France and London , England , its nine tracks are invigorated by their environment — especially such worn-in faves as the fierce , questioning ‘ London City ’ and the commandingly swirly ‘ You 're The Judge ’ — but the crowd noises are infuriatingly badly mixed in , making for an imperfect peep into BTTP 's spiritual home . |
| 15 | Many women from immigrant communities are hidden by their men , who may be entrepreneurs , and they fear offending both their men and the community by complaints about their work . |
| 16 | The man who produced the record ’ Telstar ’ by the Tornadoes in the sixties , has been honoured by his home town . |
| 17 | Other examples of unlawful objects are given by their Lordships in the Crofter case . |
| 18 | He told us that he had been persecuted by his family , psychiatrists and a public mental hospital ; that he was in imminent danger of being detained against his will in hospital in Japan ; that escaping from Japan was the only way to secure his freedom ; and that he wanted shelter and legal assistance under international refugee law . |
| 19 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 20 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 21 | Disillusionment with the way they are treated by their firms has led many trainees , along with more experienced dealers to look for new jobs . |
| 22 | Demeaning offences fall into two broad categories , those which are treated by our participants as part of the generally resented background of personal devaluation , and those which call for specific retribution according to rule . |
| 23 | Today , JCI 's coal mining activities are undertaken by its wholly-owned subsidiary Tavistock , which operates four producing collieries in the Witbank area close to Johannesburg . |
| 24 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 25 | There was a single filing cabinet , but in all other respects the room could have been inhabited by his father , the colonial Bishop whose portrait hung over the marble mantelshelf . |
| 26 | And I mean er er you could argue that you know , because he 's er erm you know targeting the young and people who are at school in particular , the fact that , you know , if he 's successful in targeting those , then by nineteen forty nine those school children will be sort of will be the , the peasants , will be farmers and therefore will be more willing , you know , having been indoctrinated by his thoughts er or , or by the communist way of thinking , then erm for the revolution . |
| 27 | Of course , some young fathers are fascinated by their babies and enjoy cohabiting co-operatively , finding more " meaning in being fathers than their own fathers did . |
| 28 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 29 | Levels of earnings might well have been limited by their own work-psychology , as were those of lead miners in Derbyshire and the Mendip Hills , where the labour force consisted almost entirely of smallholders and cottagers . |
| 30 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |