Example sentences of "[vb mod] [prep] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I said renting it , because it must of been occupied by animals ! |
| 2 | There are many large quintas in Monte as it used to be favoured by the rich who moved up to their summer houses when it became too hot and humid in Funchal . |
| 3 | Diet used to be taught by personal interview and printed diet sheet . |
| 4 | The workers , who used to be employed by British Rail Maintenance , have also deposited redundancy payments , running into six figures , with the Royal Bank . |
| 5 | Marta used to be harassed by the police . |
| 6 | and th we used to be visited by some of their people |
| 7 | His book undoubtedly fills a need ; it may , besides , make you wonder whether we have most of us come all that far since the days of Babbage , the true father of the computer , who recorded in his memoirs that he often used to be asked by the mandarins of the English establishment , when they came to view his difference engine : ‘ Pray , Mr Babbage , if you put into the machine wrong figures , will the right answers come out ? ’ |
| 8 | I have seen away supporters being chased up the road into Pleck Park and but erm I think basically a lot of the trouble used to be caused by drink and now they do n't have any drink in the ground they er they , they seem to have cracked that one . |
| 9 | It is a spectacularly successful conjuring trick that capitalism in the West has pulled off : with one hand cutting down on paid labour by encouraging people to regard the jobs that used to be done by other workers as new forms of leisure , whilst with the other hand establishing new ( and more profitable ) economic sectors around voluntary pastoral care , such as care for the elderly . |
| 10 | Their frustrations used to be articulated by Mrs Thatcher , but she is now as likely to be a cause of them as a cure . |
| 11 | Last year nearly seven million people watched the final , some way below the 12 and 13 million who used to be enthralled by snooker . |
| 12 | As for the hair which used to be trimmed by a top London stylist and had swung in a smooth shoulder-skimming bob , it had not been cut for months and was now bundled unceremoniously on to the top of her head . |
| 13 | Where the eye often used to be bruised by hectic entrances and exits , Page now keeps his dancers on the stage , shifting them around in complex patterns or gathering them up in long architectural phrases . |
| 14 | It used to be thought by many scientists that the armoured plates stuck outwards , as in Stegosaurus , in order to hit enemies approaching from the side . |
| 15 | The greater part of the property of Britain used to be surrounded by a kind of magic circle within which the law of honesty could not penetrate . |
| 16 | There must be oodles of territory in Saxony and Thuringia that used to be owned by the East German government . |
| 17 | This excellent water is surrounded by mature woodlands and the estate used to be owned by the brewing family of Usher . |
| 18 | ‘ Used to be owned by a fellow named Robinson who invented the herbaceous border . ’ |
| 19 | The firm , which makes fuel systems for Harriers and Tornados , used to be owned by the Dowty Group . |
| 20 | You do n't want people knocking your door and er you know she up to the time she died we we used to be advised by her . |
| 21 | As a result , business was dictated by local tastes and tended to be conducted in the closing stages of the fair rather than at the private view , which used to be marked by dealers trading among themselves . |
| 22 | Instead it 's a confused product of jobbing hacks and sad people out of their depth — none more so than George ‘ Columbus ’ Corraface , a handsome trier reminiscent of those blokes that used to be out-acted by skeletons in Sinbad films . |
| 23 | Waddesdon 's 165 acres of gardens used to be tended by 120 gardeners bound to silence in daylight . |
| 24 | Gloucestershire 's schools and colleges used to be cleaned by the county council 's own in house contractors — gloucestershire services . |
| 25 | Professor W. F. Grimes in his essay ‘ The Archaeology of the Stamford Region ’ in The Making of Stamford suggests that ‘ the inscription on the recently erected pillar that marks the Roman crossing on the Welland ought to be replaced by one which does less violence to the facts as they appear to be . ’ |
| 26 | There has been some of the same controversy over the role of the mental handicap hospitals as over the psychiatric hospitals , but on the whole the issue is clearer : they ought to be replaced by smaller units , ranging from hostels and homes to specialist hospital units able to provide intensive nursing for the severely handicapped minority . |
| 27 | Moreover , even at common law a lease which ought to be made by deed but is not will not completely fail of effect , if possession is taken and rent paid under it ; the tenant will be treated as tenant from year to year upon the terms of the lease so far as they are applicable to such a tenancy . |
| 28 | Looking at Durham Cathedral , the Cardinal pointed out that the Church is not just concerned with beautiful buildings but also the dignity of the individual — ‘ I think we ought to be inspired by those saints of Anglo-Saxon England , to do in our day what they did in theirs . |
| 29 | What the Common Foreign and Security policy represents is not a realistic and objective response to Europe 's security needs , but the establishment of a unified European foreign policy in principle because it is felt that the European Union , as an ‘ independent ’ entity , ought to be served by such a policy . |
| 30 | erm There seems on the whole to be general agreement throughout Western Europe about the kinds of things that ought to be covered by health and social security system _ industrial accidents , sickness , provision for old age and so on — and all the countries of the European Community , for example , have some kind of system that provide these sorts of benefits . |