Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be helpful if responses could indicate the extent to which their views are influenced by conceptual issues , practicality or the desirability of international harmonisation of accounting requirements . |
| 2 | Marines backed by units of the French Foreign Legion took control of much of Mogadishu during Dec. 9 , seizing weapons , although their operations were encumbered by curious crowds and reporters . |
| 3 | Long after the Oklo reactors cooled , their products were disturbed by geological events . |
| 4 | It is essential that these structures and their activities be inspired by genuine love for the church ’ . |
| 5 | These suggest unsteadiness and imbalance ; brittle textures and hard yellow-greens evoke the dazzling clear-cut light of reason , but their surfaces are marred by thin wounds and blemishes which , camouflage by the paint 's substance , present an insidious challenge to the perfect symmetry of composition . |
| 6 | But when non-performing songwriters became successful , with their songs being recorded by major artists , and used in films or as TV commercials , then the need for a manager often becomes more pressing . |
| 7 | The birds were often marched from there ( a distance of more than 100 miles ) to be sold at London markets and , as it was such a lengthy journey , their feet were protected by small , leather boots , or with a coating of tar . |
| 8 | Their lives are ruled by improbable fictions : |
| 9 | Difficulties have arisen as to whether letters written to Ministers by M.P.s in the course of their duties are covered by absolute privilege . |
| 10 | ‘ Athetoid ’ children find that their movements are hindered by unintentional and uncontrollable movements , and ‘ ataxic ’ children find that they can not generally control their muscles well . |
| 11 | The people who voted for what are called ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ fascist ’ parties in France and Germany seem to have mostly done so , however mistakenly , for one reason only : fear that the stability of their countries is threatened by unassimilable immigrants and bogus ‘ asylum-seekers ’ . |
| 12 | Their graves were tended by surviving relatives in much the same way that they looked after the house of an absent friend . |
| 13 | This has resulted in a pressure on general practitioners to admit more patients , an increased pressure on CCUs , and patients being discharged from hospital earlier , both because they are healthier sooner due to thrombolysis , and also because their beds are needed by new arrivals . |
| 14 | The eyes of predators are finely tuned to the slightest movement , but are less well equipped to distinguish static shapes , especially if their outlines are blurred by broken patterning or by foliage cover . |
| 15 | It seems clear that , no matter how those at risk may be identified and quantified , social workers will , in practice , increasingly want to ensure that their actions are directed by legislative requirements , both as protection for themselves and as a means of pointing to at least some external criteria for the validity of the protective actions taken in respect of children . |
| 16 | All these workers gave their time and labour freely , their efforts being supported by other citizens who hauled stone and earth at every available opportunity . |
| 17 | The Congressional reformers had hoped that , by modifying the seniority system , strengthening the party caucuses and other changes , parties would be made more viable , but their efforts were offset by other developments , most notably in the realm of campaigning . |
| 18 | Their efforts were hampered by recent dry weather and moderate winds fanning the flames . |
| 19 | Inevitably , however , the Electrical Contractors ' Association were annoyed if their members were undercut by nationalised Boards . |
| 20 | People with such symptoms are often at their wits ' end to get help and are convinced that their symptoms are caused by organic illness . |
| 21 | We should say that their thoughts are captured by salient information where they should be centrally directed , inhibited and co-ordinated . |
| 22 | Their faces are split by blue scars down the forehead and nose . |
| 23 | In so far as the poor did not crowd into the old central districts abandoned by their betters , their dwellings were built by small speculative builders , often little more than artisans , or by the constructors of those gaunt , overflowing tenement blocks expressively known in German as ‘ rent barracks ’ ( Mietskasernen ) . |
| 24 | Before Asian women began working in large numbers , their jobs were done by Asian men or white women . |