Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] being by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enthusiasm of official propaganda derived partly from the triumphalism inherent in a regime which had come into being by dint of a military victory , and partly from the need to conceal , or divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 2 | We shall explain its coming into existence as a consequence of gradual , cumulative , step-by-step transformations from simpler things , from primordial objects sufficiently simple to have come into being by chance . |
| 3 | I did not therefore expect to be invited here and was resigned to being by myself yet again and sure my spirits would once more be lowered . |
| 4 | He concedes that the new sector organisations called into being by Mr Heseltine last July are not yet up to speed . |
| 5 | Since the second amendment to the articles of agreement the structure of the Fund has been defined as consisting not only of a board of governors , an executive board , and a managing director and staff , but also a council if it is called into being by a decision of the board of governors with an 85 per cent majority of total voting power . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As head of its armed forces , General Noriega rules a country which was itself brought into being by the United States . |
| 8 | ‘ There is no higher glory of a Christian empire than that which was here brought into being by a death in a desert . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Mann insists that Punjab must be a homeland for the Sikhs , brought into being by a UN-supervised plebiscite . |
| 10 | It has been called the ‘ British Problem ’ , brought into being by a combination of renewed English ambition and , for the first time , a new attitude among at least some of the Scots to their southern neighbour . |
| 11 | Although subsequently repudiated by them , it was brought into being by the landlords , mainly from the early 19th century , to serve their own interests . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This has been the case even though the new church has been conceived and brought into being by the hypocrites themselves ! |
| 14 | Because the ministry has been brought into being by God , the result is that it bears fruit , whether it is among the gentiles in Pisidian Antioch or the whole group of hearers in Lystra . |
| 15 | But neither they nor an unreformed Exchequer could handle the large new sources of income brought into being by Henry VIII 's breach with Rome : the first fruits of bishoprics , the tenths of all ecclesiastical benefices , the revenue from the renting and sale of monastic lands . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Dr Albert has described turnpike trusts as " an administrative innovation brought into being by a small section of the community in what it saw as it own best interests " . |
| 18 | In attempting to discern what distinguishes the notions of making and causing , it soon becomes obvious that there are many objects which can be conceived as being made but not as being caused : this is true , for example , of cars , boats , bread , plastic , in short anything that is brought into being by a process of fabrication . |
| 19 | ‘ . Yet Shakespeare has more than a merely national reputation , kept in being by those who manipulate ideological power . |