Example sentences of "by [noun] [prep] be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They usually resent any guidance from Central Office , and sometimes deliberately pick as their candidate someone reckoned by headquarters to be a dead loss . |
| 2 | I would not be surprised if today there are a number of people who , though fully Christian , have never allowed justification by faith to be an experiential reality in their life . |
| 3 | On assumption of power labour attempted to implement a programme of progressive reform but in pursuit of this adopted methods that were seen by opponents to be an open challenge to representative democracy . |
| 4 | If they will give the State the part of their collections considered by experts to be an important part of Russia 's national heritage , they may get permission to export the remainder . |
| 5 | Their fleece is renowned by experts to be the springiest and softest in the world . |
| 6 | It is called a ‘ Wahoo ’ ( no joke ) and was said by Richard to be the fastest fish in the sea with speeds up to 70 mph . |
| 7 | Nizan 's refusal to empathise fully with his fictional characters was consequently envisaged not as part of a global strategy to adapt the novel to the demands of contemporary social experience , but rather as the ideological inability of a communist novelist to engage in a complicity judged by Sartre to be a fundamental aspect of the novelist 's art . |
| 8 | ‘ Television is reckoned by parents to be the next most important influence . ’ |
| 9 | Such stress inoculation in the form of graded exposure to increasing levels of stress is believed by Epstein to be a natural healing process of the mind . |
| 10 | This collusion between writers and critics was not deliberate , let alone coordinated in any systematic fashion , yet , in cultural and intellectual terms , the principal outcome was to revolutionize the literary landscape by initiating new , evaluative criteria to chart the movement from realism to modernism : Flaubert is also considered by Barthes to be the pivotal figure in this transformation towards an apparently less transparent writing . |
| 11 | 12 of the stations , including Drax — said by FoE to be the dirtiest in Europe — are owned by National Power , and eight by Powergen . |
| 12 | On the contrary , its continued existence was soon recognized by lawyers to be a vital counterbalance to the new powers the police had secured . |
| 13 | She had not been allowed make-up ; if she had , at that age , developed any idea of herself as having rights simply by virtue of being a pretty girl , it must have crept in between the covers of some acceptable book . |
| 14 | By virtue of being the additional " extending " elements , the latter are subordinate . |
| 15 | Although Stan was older and previously dominant , by virtue of being the only dog , he had not turned out to be the natural leader of he pair . |
| 16 | The author ( front row , third from right ) in charge of the Southern Command cricket team , which he captained by virtue of being the only officer who played cricket . |
| 17 | If the accused , by reason of being the controlling shareholder or otherwise , is ‘ the directing mind and will of the company ’ he is to be treated as having validly consented on behalf of the company to his own appropriation of the company 's property . |
| 18 | If this was so the consequence would be that although an exempted person by reason of being an appointed representative , Winchester were also an authorised person . |
| 19 | Winchester were only entitled to conduct their investment business lawfully by reason of being an authorised representative of Norwich Union . |
| 20 | I fancy you are by way of being a professional photographer , Mr Kleiber ? ’ |
| 21 | It was by way of being a royal command . |
| 22 | It is relevant for the explanation of the character of de facto authorities because every de facto authority either claims or is acknowledged by others to be a legitimate authority . |
| 23 | The assessment of unmet needs is seen by others to be a potential source of valuable information : |
| 24 | Even then it appears to have caused something of a religious furore , being declared by some to be a fake and by others to be the true Shroud . |