Example sentences of "[adj] of being [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Astronomers at JTL , afraid of being scooped by the amateurs , put out a press release claiming IRAS discovered it first — but they failed to mention the British team that found it for them . |
| 2 | His only real chance of coming to grief was that of being struck by a stray round-shot , an unlikely mishap , for they sank as soon as they landed . |
| 3 | Labour has not only neutralised most of those policy areas which make it unpopular ; more importantly , it has virtually erased the opportunity for Tories to accuse Labour of being run by the ‘ loony left ’ . |
| 4 | In the mud , which the shelling had now turned to a consistency of sticky butter , troops stumbled and fell repeatedly ; cursing in low undertones , as if fearful of being overheard by the enemy who relentlessly pursued them with his shells at every step . |
| 5 | Khan and Chilad ( 1982 : 49 ) saw these developments as the ‘ modest beginning ’ of a new phase in prison reform , in which , at last , ‘ institutional correction was accorded the status of an issue , worthy of being discussed by the political executive and the bureaucracy ’ . |
| 6 | Tired of being buffeted by the eddying crowd , she moved over to the wall , where a sofa seemed to dare her to sit on it . |
| 7 | She was tired of being surprised by a wind from the west |
| 8 | The affair thus highlights the unreality of the common-law rule which continues to concentrate on the independent judgment of a police officer who is in fact simply obeying instructions which are issued as part of a general policy not necessarily susceptible of being influenced by the specific facts of particular cases . |
| 9 | He miscalculated badly , forgetting the Tsar 's pride , which made him unyielding in his claim to be protector of the Greek Christians , and the reaction of the Sultan , who was weary of being pressured by the Powers and who feared for the security of his Empire . |
| 10 | Held , allowing the appeal , that , notwithstanding the general principle that a trading or non-trading corporation was entitled to sue in libel to protect so much of its corporate reputation , as distinct from that of its members , as was capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , a local authority , as a corporate public authority , was not entitled at common law to sue for libel to protect its governing reputation ; that to allow it to do so would impose a substantial and unjustifiable restriction on freedom of expression , since an action for malicious falsehood , or a prosecution for criminal libel , provided the local authority with the sufficient and necessary protection it required in a democratic society ; and that , therefore , the local authority could not maintain its libel action for any words which reflected on it as the county council for Derbyshire in relation to its governmental and administrative functions in that county ( post , pp. 41H , 48F–G , H — 49B , 56B–C , 58A–B , 59F–G , 65B–C , F ) . |
| 11 | In my judgment the principle established by the authorities to which I have referred ( other than the Manchester Corporation case [ 1891 ] 1 Q.B. 94 ) is that any corporation , whether trading or non-trading , which can show that it has a corporate reputation ( as distinct from that of its members ) which is capable of being damaged by a defamatory statement , can sue in libel to protect that reputation , in the same way as can a natural person , although there will of course be certain types of statement which can not defame an artificial person . |
| 12 | These are only two examples of cases where it should be possible for a non-trading corporation , which asserts that its reputation is capable of being damaged by the defamatory statement , to sue for libel . |
| 13 | But we can at least aim at a code that is capable of being understood by a person of average intelligence and of being understood and applied from the four corners of the document that he is directed to consult . |
| 14 | The latter , which may be a plasmid ( extrachromosomal molecules of DNA that exist in many bacteria ) or a phage ( normally a bacterial virus ) , must be capable of being recognised by the host in order for replication to occur . |
| 15 | Thus , supposedly , nothing can be admitted to our writings unless it is capable of being checked by the reader , either via the presentation of original data and a methods section or through reference to other work which upholds similar standards . |
| 16 | The power to introduce executive detention remains on the statute book and is capable of being exercised by the Government . |
| 17 | This makes it highly soluble and capable of being absorbed by the body . |
| 18 | Obviously the media type must be capable of being supported by the unit . |
| 19 | Preparation of an internal control questionnaire in which the auditor devises a series of questions to assess the strengths and weaknesses of a system and to test whether an objective of control is capable of being met by the system . |
| 20 | Ramshackle , held together by a thousand personalised special arrangements , a state existed , still , in the ninth century , capable of being operated by a skilful king . |
| 21 | I 'm capable of being tempted by a desirable woman — though I must say I have no present intention of succumbing to that temptation . ’ |
| 22 | Much will depend upon the circumstances of the disclosure , the nature of the information itself and even whether it is capable of being protected by an implied obligation . |
| 23 | Nor , despite the arbitrary results capable of being produced by the requirement of illegality , is the law necessarily unwise in displaying this reluctance to extend liability , for if the requirement of illegality were abandoned a much greater burden would have to be placed upon the defence of justification if we were to avoid the intolerable situation that A was liable to C whenever and however he knowingly brought about a breach of a contract between B and C. |
| 24 | That was the freakish effect of blast for you , so powerful , yet capable of being deflected by the flimsiest thing , always choosing the line of least resistance . |
| 25 | There are transitional thinkers — those who soon make the conceptual transition from the concrete to the more abstract form of the problem — one that is capable of being solved by a combination of multiplication and addition . |
| 26 | ‘ It is ordered that in the interim and an injunction is hereby granted ordering that in the events ( i ) that the medical condition of [ J. ] changes in such a way that his life is threatened but is capable of being prolonged by the application to him of intensive therapeutic measures including artificial ventilation , and ( ii ) that he is at that time in the care of the … |
| 27 | The second of these two factors is likely to be the more important constraint in the long run , for even at the end of the 1980s it is rare to find a graduate in geography who is first of all aware of the wide-ranging scope of the subject and secondly is familiar with the operations capable of being performed by a modern computer system . |
| 28 | This would make PCR an extremely simple procedure , capable of being performed by a laboratory auxiliary . |
| 29 | They include in the case of land held by trustees for sale , all interests and powers capable of being overridden by the trustees for sale . |
| 30 | In the case of settled land , all interests and powers capable of being overridden by the tenant for life or the statutory owner . |