Example sentences of "driven [adv] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driven on by the desire to escape from the hardship of his peasant origins , Pierre Nizan pushed himself ever forward in a process of continual self advancement . |
| 2 | CVCP had maintained that ‘ an expansion driven wholly by the recruitment of extra students , many of them at marginal cost , could threaten research ’ , but says that the research funds mean that some universities can ‘ increase their income without recourse to student recruitment alone ’ . |
| 3 | On this aspect of the story Mr Sale is an invaluable guide and teacher , but he goes well over the top in his determination to present Columbus as the representative of a devilish western world driven only by the desire to rape , grab and despoil a land of innocence . |
| 4 | It is a process which has led universities — some of them at least — to appear to be driven less by the pursuit of knowledge than by the pursuit of funding . |
| 5 | It was nine o'clock and they had been driven in by the mosquitoes before he broached the subject of the night before . |
| 6 | ‘ Of course at first I just thought it was someone from a boat that had been driven in by the weather . |
| 7 | In Asia , they were driven southwards by the competition of numerous higher and more powerful forms , but have found a last resting-place in the swampy forests of the Malay region . |
| 8 | Others , struggling to get air-borne again , are driven backwards by the bow-wave of the surging sharks as they break the surface . |
| 9 | In large leks the satellites have little chance of mating as they are driven away by the residents . |
| 10 | Although he was driven away by the defenders of the city of St Stephen 's with derisive shouts of " We do not want this man to reign over us " , he was able to capture the castle of Aixe , which was so lightly garrisoned that it had clearly been abandoned by Henry and Richard . |
| 11 | Any thoughts of others , any memory , any meetings or encounters have simply disappeared — as dark places are driven away by the sun . |
| 12 | You 're driven away by the army . |
| 13 | Then , from a scrum in midfield , No. 8 Ainslie fed Edward Gander who was tap tackled by the fullback , but Lee swooped on the loose ball and was driven over by the pack . |
| 14 | The commercial scene also continued to expand , driven largely by the influence of Michael Werner , who began in the late Sixties to show the New Expressionists : Penck , Baselitz , Immendorf and Kiefer . |
| 15 | According to this analysis the existing municipal culture is one which stresses uniform provision , with little choice for the consumer and which has been driven largely by the demands of the producers . |
| 16 | If change comes ( and if it does , it will be mild ) it will be driven more by the problems with Tokyo than by the aspirations of Osaka . |
| 17 | Thinking that the aircraft was on fire , he tried to land at once at Takali , but was driven off by the ground defences , heading instead for Hal Far . |
| 18 | The light faded , driven aside by the darkness of the Base . |
| 19 | The census of 1785 confirms that the Titfords were still on Pig Street , not having been driven out by the noise of falling stone or splintering wood ; not that noise would have been anything unusual for them — they already had Thomas Addams ' blacksmith 's shop down the street , and the ringing sound of metal on metal emanating from there must have mingled nicely with the constant clip-clop of horses ' hooves as Henry Webley went about his business as the Bristol carrier a few doors away . |
| 20 | Christopher Addison was unpopular because of his advanced social policy and he was eventually driven out by the Unionists . |
| 21 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 22 | Yet villagers continued to flock in searching for work , lured by often misplaced hopes , discontented with their inability to secure a decent standard of living in the rural areas , or driven out by the impossibility of securing any living at all . |
| 23 | It was apparent to Allen from what Tom told him that the verderers , driven out by the fire , had succeeded in saddling and bridling the terrified horses . |
| 24 | Efforts to enter the building and find Meredith and Amelia Putt also proved futile and the would-be rescuers were driven out by the heat and flames . |
| 25 | If only his head did not ache so badly that thought seemed driven out by the throbbing . |
| 26 | After the Romans were driven out by the Alemanni in the fifth century , the history of the area is misty until the ninth , when Zurich is mentioned as a town for the first time with the building of a palace there by Charlemagne . |
| 27 | In 455 , the year after Aëtius 's murder , and the year in which Valentinian III was assassinated , they were clearly extending their territory , since they are recorded as being driven back by the Gepids . |
| 28 | Finally , it is not certain whether the beach originated as a spit and extended south-east from West Bay , or whether it started as an offshore bar which has later been driven shorewards by the waves . |
| 29 | The only light he could see was in the lobby , and the only person in the lobby was an anxious girl with a clipboard who was waiting to greet him personally , and who seemed personally grateful for his skill in getting himself found and driven there by the company 's chauffeur . |
| 30 | You could also say he was driven there by the railway . |