Example sentences of "[adv] be [vb pp] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 2 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 3 | He almost invariably added that any expense would soon be made good by the increased value of the property . |
| 4 | In so doing Railfreight chalked up an achievement which would scarcely be considered feasible by any other European railway administration : only in Britain is the freight-carrying railway required to function without government subsidy . |
| 5 | Switching to Economy 7 will usually be done free by your local Electricity Board . |
| 6 | ( 9 ) The Note to Rule 26 stipulates that a copy of each document which is required to be put on display pursuant to that Rule ( see para 11.5 below ) must , on request , promptly be made available by an offeror or the target to the other party and to any competing offeror or potential offeror . |
| 7 | The classical economists argued that , given a flexible rate of interest and a competitive market for loanable funds , saving and investment would always be made equal by changes in interest rates . |
| 8 | Most of the work is composed in six-line tail-rhyme stanzas , rhyming A A B C C B. There are usually two main stresses within the line of at least six syllables which may also be made coherent by the use of alliteration , internal rhyme and assonance , as , for instance , in the first stanza : ( As I travelled along a path I heard the tale of one , a spirited man , and proud ; he was wise in learning and splendid under his clothes , and clothed in fine array . ) |
| 9 | Such people may also be made ill by eating mushrooms . |
| 10 | The point concerning 11a can be made with greater force in respect of 12a , which can also be rendered normal by changing either a closed set item ( 12b ) or an open set item ( 12c ) . |
| 11 | Fourier transform integrals of many other waveforms can also be rendered convergent by this means although it must be appreciated that the technique is not universally successful . |
| 12 | ( But it would be a mistake to bring it back — we are bound to hang some unfortunate youth who would later be proved innocent by Ludovic Kennedy . ) |
| 13 | Backwards pruning decision points can often be determined off-line by analysing and structuring the problem in a certain way . |
| 14 | Generally these four factors work together in combination , though syllables may sometimes be made prominent by means of only one or two of them . |
| 15 | However , to interchange them ( ’ powerful tea ’ & ’ strong car ’ ) would undoubtedly be judged anomalous by most English speakers . |
| 16 | It may carry genes for delicate surface ornament , yet be worn smooth by abrasion . |