Example sentences of "[adv] be [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to have a multiple personality , in which one self may suddenly be overthrown by another and one mind may be torn in several different directions is sometimes so intolerable , I long for extinction . |
| 2 | Males , also , can especially be affected by coercive inducements , usually in the opposite direction . |
| 3 | Although we may claim that we simply publish an objective report , the inference that exceptional evil existed during the occupation of Kuwait will naturally be made by those trying to justify the devastating Allied bombardment of Iraq , now retrospectively . |
| 4 | And this can obviously be done by any intelligent teacher who is not an artist . |
| 5 | The policy-making National Council of the PAICV announced after meeting on April 10-13 , 1990 , that the President would henceforth be elected by direct universal suffrage rather than as hitherto by deputies of the National People 's Assembly . |
| 6 | The delegates had , however , gone further than the Premier by demanding on April 22 that the country 's President should henceforth be elected by popular vote , rather than by the two Houses of the Sejm , as at present . |
| 7 | Second , no respectable economist derives a trend by comparing a trough year ( 1981 ) with a peak ( 1988 ) : sensible figures can only be obtained by contrasting peak-with-peak or trough-with-trough . |
| 8 | CANCELLATION : When you book your accommodation , you will be entering into a legally binding contract which can only be broken by mutual consent . |
| 9 | Such discrepancies can only be bridged by national funding . ’ |
| 10 | But a new entity , MODULE can be described which may only be given by one LECTURER and is part of only one COURSE . |
| 11 | Just because Ben Nevis is a popular peak do n't be lulled into a false sense of security — it 's a peak worthy of respect and in snow and mist should only be tackled by experienced walkers . |
| 12 | It should only be tackled by fit walkers who know what they 're doing with a map and compass . |
| 13 | These differences can therefore only be explained by racial discrimination ’ ( p. 16 ) . |
| 14 | What happens to the rest of Rangers ' season can only be determined by medical examination rather than any other form of analysis . |
| 15 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 16 | Surely this can only be said by those ministers or officials who ( however well meaning ) are themselves ‘ out of touch ’ . |
| 17 | Familiarity can only be achieved by simple , direct and unchanging characterisation and this Forester provided . |
| 18 | Whether annexation was a long-term aim in Japan is debatable ; what is clear is that Japanese believed that their nation 's security necessitated a hold on power in Korea of a kind which could only be achieved by colonial status . |
| 19 | Equally , it could be argued that the promotion of a sense of community , of which the primary school is a vital part , can only be achieved by local commitment and action . |
| 20 | Morality is still uppermost , but it is a social morality with which parents and teachers are concerned , not the repression of old Adam , the suppression of evil , or the breaking of the will , and , in consequence , the view that a proper submissiveness in the child can only be achieved by harsh discipline weakens , at least for a time . |
| 21 | A proper understanding of the way the ordinary Scot lived in the past , and of the main forces affecting his standard of living , can only be achieved by careful investigation along these lines . |
| 22 | Therefore , even if complex real-world situations can only be represented by complex models , the proponents of the object-oriented model argue that it is only as it need be to represent these situations on computers and to manipulate those representations for the purpose of processing queries . |
| 23 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 24 | At best these dependences can only be approximated by complicated networks and the performance of any real filter must fall short of that represented by figure 9.3(b) for a correctly terminated filter . |
| 25 | Even well-established commercial farmers are finding themselves on a cruel treadmill of soaring capital investment , the financing of which can only be serviced by increasing mortgages based on the rising cost of land . |
| 26 | The second reason why a simplistic relationship between agricultural technology and relations of production can not occur is that there are frequently many important local variations in technology which can only be uncovered by detailed analysis of settlement histories and cultural development . |
| 27 | Ill-treatment of prisoners and fabrication of confessions can only be prevented by better organisation , selection , training , supervision and remuneration of the police force coupled with stringent rules for access to independent legal advice and a bar on confessions obtained in the absence of that representation . |
| 28 | It would , however , be incorrect to assume that syntactic aspects of language production could only be influenced by automatic accessing of particular lexical items . |
| 29 | Visits to observe lessons should only be made by prior appointment with the headteacher , all concerned knowing of the visit well in advance . |
| 30 | That is unremarkable since the anticipation of such problems and assessments of some of their causes and magnitudes can only be made by environmental scientists . |