Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] by [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today at the fringe meeting where seventy odd people attended , I 've been inundated by people who 've come forward and said we wan na raise it , we wan na put instructions on the machines that dispense these . |
| 2 | We 've been approached by people asking about the Kangeroo scarers . |
| 3 | A group of families living beside one of the region 's busiest commuter routes are facing a five-mile detour to get home , because they 've been marooned by roadworks.They say it 's making their lives a misery , and want engineers to make them a special short cut to improve things . |
| 4 | From the earliest times , electronic databases have been accessed by means of search and retrieval software . |
| 5 | The bream appear to be ravenous as they recover from spawning activities and have been joined by tench , carp and roach to give several outstanding catches . |
| 6 | Ordinary people have been coerced by minorities to perform the necessary tasks . |
| 7 | Costs have been cut by £70m this year and by about £170m a year since the start of the recession in 1990 . |
| 8 | As a bonus , IT operating costs have been cut by 40% . |
| 9 | Motorola Inc 's UDS Motorola in Huntsville , Alabama said it cut prices by up to 25% on several V.32 and V.32 bis modems , effective immediately : the list prices of the V.32L , V.3225L , V.3227L and V.3229L CCITT V.32 and V.32 bis compliant modems , have been cut by $200 each . |
| 10 | Mr Macdonald , his fellow Labour MP Norman Godman , and the Liberal Democrat MPs Ray Michie and Jim Wallace , have been condemned by shellfish growers for failing to understand the orders or their impact . |
| 11 | But , but a lot of the problems that come into our advice centre have been caused by people signing erm credit agreements and then realizing they ca n't afford the payments . |
| 12 | ‘ My parents have been pestered by people who want to know when I am coming home , ’ she said . |
| 13 | Only Chapman lacked any easily identifiable and stereotypical presence ( his cantankerous military type , who would interrupt the more outrageous sketches with a testy ‘ this is silly ! ’ , might just as well , or even better , have been played by Cleese ) . |
| 14 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 15 | In the first place , by far the greater number of them have been made by people who have never heard of the doctrine that emotions and judgements are caused by bodily states … |
| 16 | Relatively few of these governments have been formed following elections ; most have been created by means of negotiation between the main parties and personalities in order to establish the distribution of offices between parties . |
| 17 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 18 | But I have to admit that in the past I have been offended by people saying that it 's just formula for me to play melodies and structures that come to me very naturally . |
| 19 | The premiums for standard cover and accidental damage have been reduced by 7% in respect of buildings cover and 10% in respect of contents cover for members in the Republic of Ireland . |
| 20 | The prior year figures for interest receivable and provisions for bad and doubtful debts have been reduced by £28m to reflect the more rigorous recognition of interest which is now in force . |
| 21 | Community charge reductions are worked out after the bills originally set by councils have been reduced by £140 as explained on page 2 . |
| 22 | Where they are tenanted , they have been discounted by 30% ( 1990 — 35% ) from open market value — the estimate of the likely discount effect if the properties were sold tenanted , taking into account the terms of the assured tenancy leases that the company granted to tenants . |
| 23 | They have been suggested by people 's changing needs and growing understanding of how the gospel can be worked out in human society . |
| 24 | On many occasions I have been exasperated by people attempting these manoeuvres who ca n't even use a harness or sail consistently in strong winds . |
| 25 | Environmental geochemical maps of the Solomon Islands , eastern Bolivia , northern Sumatra , northeastern Zimbabwe , Harare ( Zimbabwe ) and part of Kenya have been produced by means of the UNIRAS/UNIMAP software package . |
| 26 | Besides providing homes for the newcomers to the city , these estates have been occupied by people moving out of the old city centre and out of some of the older terraced houses . |
| 27 | HOSPICE funds have been boosted by £9,625 from the estate of Mary Siddle Leeming and other donations . |
| 28 | Two headmasters have been told by staff at the Child and Family Therapy Unit in Ellesmere Port that children face almost a year 's wait . |