Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] be [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the Taft-Hartley Act was invoked ninety-five days later , there would be a total of two killings , two assaults , thirty-five bombings , the taking of one hostage , and seventy-one other ‘ disruptions ’ involving such things as sabotage of railroads , gunfire directed against people , trains , and motor vehicles , property damage , and other incidents of violence serious enough to be noted by the Department of Justice . |
| 2 | Afterwards he will raise his voice and holler loud enough to be heard by the whole roomful of guests milling around chatting , perhaps talking excitedly with drinks in their hands , ‘ LADIES and GENTLEMEN ! |
| 3 | Each segment is designed to be small enough to be covered by the salesperson during one day 's work . |
| 4 | She obtained 1,489 tokens of si clauses from 90 subjects , a body of data large enough to be analysed by the VARBRUL program ( see 6.8.4 ) . |
| 5 | By 1902 her fame as a hard-headed , cigar-smoking , businesswoman , capable of holding her own with the shrewdest of her male rivals in the intensely competitive world of industry , had already won her recognition ( from the Pall Mall Gazette ) as ‘ one of the most remarkable women in Great Britain' , famous enough to be caricatured by the Punch cartoonist , Bert Thomas , in the comic journal Ally Sloper in 1904 . |
| 6 | They finally reached Marseilles , an enormous distance , particularly when you consider the devious route they must have taken , but were unlucky enough to be spotted by the Vichy French , who were in league with the Nazis . |
| 7 | If the hollow is subject to drying , there would be a considerable proportion of material fine enough to be removed by the wind in suspension . |
| 8 | The particles were light enough to be deflected by the jostling of a swarm of unseen atoms in the fluid as these atoms sped about their business . |
| 9 | ‘ I came down to be warmed by the fire . ’ |
| 10 | Their readers could not get enough of Diana ; her face was on every magazine cover , every aspect of her life attracted comment and anyone who had ever known her was tracked down to be interviewed by the voracious media . |
| 11 | He published a pamphlet condemning its effects , only to be harassed by the police . |
| 12 | With house prices tumbling by the week , the scope for one-upmanship in this field has become severely restricted — only to be replaced by the school fees bore . |
| 13 | The Duffer , who celebrated her 100th birthday last week in lavish style , also seems to think that CAPTAIN AMERICA were forced to change their name to C&A after Marvel Comics sued them , only to be injuncted by the clothes store and forced to change their name again . |
| 14 | Shivers of incredible pleasure danced across her skin as his avid mouth searched even lower , only to be stopped by the barrier of her clothes and the strap of her bag . |
| 15 | In 1917 the Belorussian National Committee , a hotchpotch of indecisive and divided intellectuals , eventually mustered sufficient unity to send demands to Petrograd , only to be nullified by the differing views of the Petrograd- and Moscow-based Belorussian groups ( intimations of those wider cultural and political differences between the twin capitals which are taken up in a later chapter ) . |
| 16 | Pharaoh decides to tackle the problem in more direct ways ( 15–22 ) , only to be defeated by the midwives ' faith . |
| 17 | That project was finally put into the proposals for this financial year , only to be clobbered by the moratorium on capital expenditure . |
| 18 | Its leading member by 1948 was Konrad Adenauer , Mayor of Cologne in 1917–33 , an opponent of the Nazis , who had returned to his position of Mayor in 1945 only to be ousted by the British , who favoured the SPD . |
| 19 | The stromatoporoids , for example , had largely gone and the new corals had not yet learned to build reefs ( in fact the Rugosa were never to remember the habit and it was only to be relearned by the Scleractinia of the Mesozoic ) . |
| 20 | In Greek mythology , Danae was a young woman locked up by her father to thwart would-be suitors , only to be impregnated by the God Zeus entering her prison in the form of a shower of gold . |
| 21 | The poor industrialist had said that the minimum wage would put him out of business , only to be told by the noble academic that it would not need to if he ran his company properly . |
| 22 | In an effort to put the situation right , James approached Eric Williams , only to be told by the good doctor that , ‘ there was nothing to discuss ’ . |
| 23 | But even after this exercise the contamination continued , only to be superseded by the climactic fire . |
| 24 | The cur tumbled into the moat only to be rescued by the brave Señor Sanchez . |
| 25 | Kimber first danced in public at the golden jubilee celebrations in 1887 , but the side was disbanded after this , only to be revived by the Oxford don Percy Manning in 1897 , and Kimber did not perform with them again until 1899 . |
| 26 | It is not sufficient for social psychologists merely to define attitudes in terms of a stance taken at a particular time , with the assumption that such a stance has a fixity , which is only to be shifted by the reception of ‘ persuasive information ’ . |
| 27 | In one case , for example , a victim developed car trouble and sought help at a nearby garage only to be raped by the mechanic on duty … . |
| 28 | I fell into bed only to be woken by the telephone an hour later at 1.30am . |
| 29 | All sorts of alarming sensations rioting in the pit of her stomach , she mumbled incoherently against his mouth as she tried to arch closer , only to be thwarted by the fork handle . |
| 30 | They are unthinkable , and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet , ’ wrote E.M . |