Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] be [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says she 's scared by household clocks . |
| 2 | Linda Parkinson , 36 , says she is stunned by the crime which has badly affected her youngest daughter , Elizabeth , 4 . |
| 3 | Wendy Wakefield from Help the Aged says they were surprised by the results of a Morri survey which questioned seven hundred people over the age of sixty five about what they knew about flu . |
| 4 | Like many other primary school teachers , he says he was stunned by the level at which the specimen paper had been pitched . |
| 5 | Even now he says he was surprised by the appointment , which caused him to make himself unavailable for the British Lions ' tour of South Africa . |
| 6 | The OECD says it is concerned by the increase in inflation among members , but the average of 4.5 per cent is still well below the forecast for the UK . |
| 7 | But now , sitting in ITN 's new steel and glass office-studios in central London , Trevor announces he is petrified by the burden that has landed on his elegantly-suited shoulders . |
| 8 | The tough-guy actor , currently topping movie charts in Britain and the U.S. with box-office smash Universal Soldier , admits he was obsessed by ambition . |