Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.

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1 All you basically need is one composition fixed in any material form , be it record , tape , manuscript or any other , which can be commercially exploited by the public .
2 Those who champion smokers ' rights should surely recognize that non-smokers , including babies and children , may be harmfully affected by other people being free to smoke in public places .
3 Individual trees are just as likely to be harmfully overshadowed by members of their own species as by members of other species .
4 Nor can it be wholly explained by the employment changes which were pushing greater numbers of people into the market irrespective of wage trends .
5 Availability of back-up should not be wholly influenced by available resources and the onus of finding it must not be left to the worker .
6 The third category of definition fails because musical types and practices , even those of the most minority sort , can never be wholly contained by particular social contexts .
7 Tensions within the village would still be wholly overshadowed by a sense of common interest , a shared way of life and outlook .
8 A major firm has probably sunk cost in such a way that it is unlikely to be successfully challenged by an entrant .
9 It is another very attractive plant which can be successfully grown by any aquarist .
10 On the internal market the European Council " noted with particular satisfaction that the White Paper programme for creating the internal market will in all essential respects be successfully completed by Dec. 31 , 1992 " .
11 Whilst reheating can be successfully achieved by using other modes , this is a speciality mode developed in recognition that the majority of food will be stored in a refrigerator .
12 This awkwardness which might be successfully exploited by a writer in a different context , forces itself on the reader 's attention , detracting from the force of discreet .
13 This might be successfully exploited by exploring the past from the viewpoint of the object under scrutiny .
14 Work such as that of Young et al ( 1988 ) has even shown us how something that was traditionally assumed to be as intangible and subjective as the nature of conscious awareness itself can be disrupted by physical damage to the brain and can be successfully studied by the observational techniques of cognitive psychology .
15 The case study illustrates that the implications of demographic trends can be modified by unforeseen economic events but they can also be successfully addressed by policy planning .
16 Moreover , the fact that characters may be successfully interpreted by means of these linguistic approaches presents a strong case for characterisation once again being regarded as a legitimate object of the critic 's attention .
17 Action , and dangerous action , must be successfully encountered by heroes too young and inexperienced for such success to be guaranteed or even probable .
18 Crucially , their Interim report submitted in March 1920 noted the intimate connection between housing , transport and the ultimate distribution of land uses of all kinds , including residential , commercial and industrial , so that the housing question ‘ can only be successfully attacked by the simultaneous consideration of all these aspects over a wide area ’ .
19 In 27 patients ( 96.4% ) bleeding could be successfully managed by injection of norepinephrine and polidocanol , in repeated sessions if needed .
20 It is concluded that bleeding from Dieulafoy 's disease can be successfully managed by endoscopic injection treatment .
21 It is also true that proceedings by way of injunction are not the only form of proceedings open to a local authority under the section ; but , unlike Mann L.J. , I am not impressed by that fact , because , in practice , for reasons I have previously given , the circumstances in which injunction proceedings may be successfully brought by a local authority are such that no other proceedings will be effective to enforce the law .
22 The intact skin , usually a barrier to infection , can sometimes be successfully invaded by pathogenic microorganisms , as can the body 's mucous membranes ( e.g. the conjunctiva ) .
23 Bearing in mind that it will be mostly hidden by the curtain that will fall around it , and that it may also have to support a wire umbrella frame , a 3 inch ( 7.5cm ) diameter or square stake is not too big .
24 The coral sand surrounding coral reefs is believed to be mostly produced by Parrotfish and Triggerfish .
25 The elderly who expressed continuing sexual interests would be mercilessly ridiculed by the youth groups of their village .
26 The fact that OFIs are responsible for over 50% of equity finance means that share prices will be predominantly affected by the portfolio preferences of these institutions .
27 Needs for Personal Social Services for children are assumed to be predominantly determined by being in a lone-parent family , regardless of the economic circumstances of the family .
28 The windows in the NIR are known to be predominantly controlled by water absorption bands , but oxygen and carbon dioxide also have some influence .
29 True , but in some cases that did not amount to all that much , and while inter-war legislation obviously provided the experience for the post-war Planning Acts which followed , the development of statutory land-use control took place at a time when particular environmental changes seemed to be little affected by formal planning powers .
30 Such mastery , however , will normally be brief ; it is unlikely to outlast the passing of crisis and/or movement in the cycles of history ; it will not survive substantial loss of congressional or popular support and it will be relentlessly eroded by the passage of time .
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