Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now he has got fascinated by the paper as well , he 's made it look like a field of bridal veils , but it 's going to be difficult to keep it in place when we move it at night . |
| 2 | What really happened has become over-printed by the fiction . |
| 3 | ‘ Our philosophy has become emasculated by the anxiety to propitiate deterministic sciences . |
| 4 | The modern world has become dominated by the rational and technical society where specialisation in work is no longer related to traditional skills or crafts ( based in the home ) but to the economic and functional necessity of the marketplace . |
| 5 | In an age which has become dominated by the Gross National Product and the Dow — Jones Index , the level of interest rates and the state of the pound , the money supply and the Public Sector Deficit , and at a more mundane level , the Sunday colour supplements offering a world of gourmet food and package holidays in the sun , it is a warning which is easily muffled by our culture . |
| 6 | The once vivacious teenager now rarely allows herself a smile , and her lively personality has become buried by the strain of living up to everyone 's expectations . |
| 7 | I have not acceded to the application of Madame Bihi to be joined as a representative or other party in this action but I have acceded to her application that I should invite the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae and Mr. Richards has appeared instructed by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 8 | It has remained dominated by the police and operates on the police 's terms ( Stephens , 1988:113 ) . |
| 9 | Subsidy ‘ in a party interest — and particularly by parties — seems to have stopped by the outbreak of World War 2 ’ . |
| 10 | Mel Pyatt , the Volvo spokesman said : ‘ It is all very sad ; loyalty seems to have gone by the board . |
| 11 | A fact which seems to have slipped by the greybeards of the art world . |
| 12 | Little seems to have changed by the 1900s , when compared to funerals , marriages were tame events . |
| 13 | The postcard has improved in quality as printing processes have developed , and the number of companies producing and distributing them seems to have multiplied by the hundred since I started in bookselling 15 years ago . |
| 14 | This relates to bias introduced by the use of different observers/interviewers at T 1 and T 2 or simply the same people becoming more skilled/bored , or the researcher may be tempted to use ‘ improved ’ scales of IQ , occupational prestige , etc. , at T 2 . |
| 15 | When degrees of control are introduced then the situation does become manipulated by the observer . |