Example sentences of "[prep] [being] by the " in BNC.

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1 As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States .
2 Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests .
3 The cordones were units of industrial organisation made up of workers from various enterprises , which were brought into being by the Bosses ' strike in October 1972 .
4 This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves !
5 By any other name , it smelled as sweet to the eager school librarian , and this paragraph will remind many British readers of the arguments a decade later as to whether " library " , " resource centre " or " library resource centre " ( among many other terms ) best described the new organization called into being by the demands of resource-based learning and new curriculum projects .
6 Only five or six farms were involved in this tragedy ; but for a few minutes at least we traverse fields brought into being by the high-handed action of a fifteenth-century squire , and pass by the mounds where the hamlet of Holyoak once stood .
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