Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] be [adv] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Their decision to retire is selflessly motivated by the recognition that we are now entering a new and election-oriented phase in the political process , ’ Mr de Klerk said . |
| 2 | This technique has been widely adopted by researchers in recent years . |
| 3 | our next champ is Simon Wigg from Buckinghamshire … he 's won the world long track title for the fourth time … with a new look … the bike has been aerodynamically designed by grand prix men … and the suit which he wears over the leathers is made of lycra … |
| 4 | The decorative marble floor has subsided into the basement while the poor condition of the building has been further aggravated by the actions of the shopkeepers at the base of the mosque . |
| 5 | The project has demonstrated that the once-traditional method where desk-bound pupils read the text has been advantageously replaced by exciting enjoyable approaches that are social , imaginative and physical . |
| 6 | The text has been much improved by Brian Cook , Lesley Fitton , John Wilkes , Susan Woodford , and not least my editor Jenny Chattington . |
| 7 | Curly bob-shaped hair has been softly styled by Bruce Hunter for The Cut Above |
| 8 | One of the main reasons that the display looks so good is that it has been configured to use typographic faces as opposed to conventional typewriter-like text and this advantage has been further heightened by using typographic measurements throughout , each dot on the screen corresponds to 1 point . |
| 9 | The decision has been strongly criticized by environmental groups , who argue that Bradwell is one of the dirtiest nuclear reactors in Britain . |
| 10 | That the congregation progressed favourably during the time they had ministers and probationers to preach there , but their progress has been suddenly arrested by having no minister to officiate among them . |
| 11 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 12 | A sports pavilion in Pallister Park has been badly damaged by two fires , one last Thursday and one late on Monday night . |
| 13 | The change has been sharply criticized by environmentalists . |
| 14 | The contemporary difficulty has been well expressed by Judith Shklar who suggests that : |
| 15 | Sweetmeats , cakes or puddings follow … the variety has been highly praised by our guests over the last five years . |
| 16 | As usual , though , the route has been carefully planned by the organisers , who can always predict how a race is likely to develop and are not inclined to let anyone have an easy ride . |
| 17 | In recent years the role of knowledge in discourse production and comprehension has been significantly stimulated by findings in the field of Artificial Intelligence , which , among other endeavours , attempts to program computers to produce and understand discourse . |
| 18 | The nature of that existence has been partly influenced by the actions of those millions of people who have lived during the period which began with the dawn of civilisation , and extends into modern times . |
| 19 | The field has been well surveyed by Midwinter ( 1986 ) . |
| 20 | Within the coterminous Borough and Parliamentary Constituency of Blyth Valley , the old Labour hegemony based on the coal field has been seriously threatened by the emergence of an Alliance challenge . |
| 21 | The Test and County Cricket Board has been comprehensively outmanoeuvred by the Indian sub-Continent on two key issues . |
| 22 | And although this is conjecture , I feel it should be mentioned , if only because the primal mother-child relationship so highly emphasised in post-Freudian psychoanalytic literature has been largely ignored by those who have written about anorexia nervosa . |
| 23 | The spirit of Mrs Thatcher and the new Conservatism has been well captured by a Marxist , Andrew Gamble : |
| 24 | Is it not a fact that everyone in the Home Office associated with this case has been properly advised by qualified lawyers , that the facts that my right hon. Friend had produced to the House today are not in dispute and that the issue is one of constitutional importance only ? |
| 25 | Peter , having been dismissed because his work as a traffic clerk has been largely supplanted by use of a computer program for traffic Mows , vehicle scheduling and so on is eligible for a redundancy payment . |
| 26 | Dextrose has been successfully used by trained ambulance staff , as has glucagon with or without a glucose drink . |
| 27 | The form of that life and the machinery by which it is prevented from supplanting the political power accepted by the populace , can be settled without strife only when the basis of the religion has been firmly established by men and women using that glorious power of reason which is life 's greatest gift . |
| 28 | On the north or river side an artificial terrace about 40 ft wide is still visible , as are parts of the revetment wall on the east side , but the west side has been badly damaged by the excavation for the entrance to the quarry . |
| 29 | The Supervisory Skills course from the Institute 's CAL programme has been highly commended by the International Foundation for Computer-based Education in Banking and Finance . |
| 30 | Dutch football has been increasingly dogged by hooliganism over the past few years . |