Example sentences of "[conj] to be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are ( 1 ) anti-imperialism ( in effect , an anti-US stance ) : increasingly , as Washington insists on defining indigenous anti-US sentiment within the region in terms of ‘ Communist subversion ’ , Marxism comes to be regarded as the natural channel for such feelings ; ( 2 ) an acceptance of the Marxist premise of ‘ the exploitation of man by man ’ ; and ( 3 ) a refusal to accept the existing economic order , or to be bound by conventional economic remedies for Latin America 's development problems ( either of the orthodox ‘ monetarist ’ variety which the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) is trying to introduce into most major Latin American countries , or of the moderate reform-and-investment strategies pursued by Christian Democratic groups , for example in Chile from 1964 to 1970 ) . |
| 2 | ‘ In India ’ , Rosa Luxemburg wrote , ‘ nationalism is an expression of the rising indigenous bourgeoisie which seeks to exploit the country for its own ends rather than to be drained by English capital ’ . |
| 3 | A required course for all students , to be completed before the end of the third year , and to be examined by individual Colleges . |
| 4 | Feminism 's frequently uncritical emphasis on empathy and understanding may even intensify the tendency of such methods to depend implicitly on the psychologist , and to be influenced by dominant discourses of gender without recognizing them . |
| 5 | In the industrial type of society there is , according to Spencer , a tendency for central regulation and coercive control to decline and to be replaced by representative institutions and a more diffuse system of regulation ; but this view is then qualified in various ways , and Spencer finally concludes that representative government depends largely upon the existence of a particular type of economy the laissez-faire free-enterprise economy — which creates the conditions in which ‘ multitudinous objects are achieved by spontaneously evolved combinations of citizens governed representatively ’ . |
| 6 | The gates seem to be clipped to the lane marker buoy wires in some way and to be operated by compressed air as bubbles rise to the surface just before the gates appear . |
| 7 | He says he understood the new model was to be portable , and to be used by surrounding hospitals — and says he feels fundraisers have been misled . |
| 8 | Not to be at the lord 's table , but to be boarded by fixed daily wages . |