Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stars like Joanna Lumley , Hayley Mills and Joan Plowright have been happy to give their support , and BNFL 's major sponsorship has been joined by Nuclear Electric , Norwest Holst and the Manchester Evening News . |
| 2 | The powerful place psychologists have in psychology , and the large part they play in deciding how the discipline deals with gender , has been recognized by egalitarian feminist psychologists . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the band have been courted by Democratic Presidential candidate BILL CLINTON on their current US arena tour . |
| 4 | USL has been courted by other attractive suitors , and has been on track to an initial public offering . |
| 5 | These latter features are joined by other neat utilities for LCD screen users to combat that frustrating mouse pointer invisibility syndrome.A choice of four switchable radio channels is provided just in case there is any external radio interference , for example , from other radio controlled devices . |
| 6 | There is a path along the top of it to which the houses nearest the sea are joined by individual wooden gang ways . |
| 7 | I fully I fully accept that , er you would obviously build in the facilities which are necessary , but the most of the settlements are limited by existing physical and other constraints , and those can not be overcome , you can not duel the A nineteen as far as Easingwold without very substantial harm , for example to the open countryside , even if it were physically possible and economically possible , to expand Easingwold , sorry , to expand Tadcaster to the required size , we 'd need to roll back greenbelt boundaries , again contrary to P P G two . |
| 8 | The neutralisation technique has been validated by double blind randomised trials , including food trials showing its effectiveness in preventing symptoms.Studies that failed to show effects evaluated the provocation of symptoms by food extracts ( not part of the standard technique ) ; that cited by Kay was also faulty in many respects and gave a wrong definition of the end point . |
| 9 | Among other things , many illnesses are unreported and , unless individuals are examined by competent medical practitioners — which is comparatively rare in developing countries , mis-diagnosis is common . |
| 10 | this appearance has been explained by multiple tiny bubbles produced by rotation of the impeller . |
| 11 | The Belgian-born actor has been plagued by have-a-go hard nuts ever since shooting to fame in bone-crunching movies like Double Impact and Universal Soldier . |
| 12 | In most neurons impulses are received by numerous short fibres called dendrites and carried away from the cell by a single long fibre called an axon . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's really only sites that are polluted by heavy industrial processes that will be targeted now for inclusion , ’ he explains . |
| 14 | In addition to early Permian Rotliegende sandstones , potential reservoirs are formed by late Carboniferous Barren Measures and Millstone Grit sandstones , Carboniferous Limestone carbonates , and basal or pre-Carboniferous clastics . |
| 15 | In the West , such bonds have been broken by industrial capitalist society . |
| 16 | Indeed , the Stamford Taurus might have been formed by early Mycenean settlers , as a representation of a Mycenean dagger carved into Stonehenge proves that people of that race were in Britain at the time . |
| 17 | Darwin wrote ( in The Origin of Species ) : If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications , my theory would absolutely break down . |
| 18 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 19 | In an embittered speech , Shevardnadze complained that he had been hounded by reactionary political opponents . |
| 20 | They are pursued by Israeli undercover squads , dressed as Palestinians and driving cars with Palestinian number-plates . |
| 21 | Adult offenders who are convicted in the magistrates ' courts will normally be sentenced by a bench of lay ( meaning unpaid , and largely untrained ) magistrates , though in some of the larger conurbations lay benches are supplemented by full-time professional magistrates known as stipendiaries , who sit alone . |
| 22 | First , many are designed by notable Scottish architects ; second , many contain remarkably complete and unaltered interiors ; and third , thanks to prominent towers and spires , most play a major role in the townscape . |
| 23 | Most power stations are surrounded by extensive buffer-zone landscapes . |
| 24 | Both waters are surrounded by mature Scots pine and Sweethope Loughs appear entirely natural today . |
| 25 | Three or four tables are surrounded by large happy families chatting , laughing and toasting each other 's health . |
| 26 | The meeting took place against the background of politically inspired violence in December in which several leading opposition figures had been attacked by unidentified armed gangs . |
| 27 | This is the annual judging season , the exercise in question the Scottish Marketing Awards , which are organised by Scottish Industrial & Trade Exhibitions . |
| 28 | Astra has set up 21 component-making joint ventures with Japanese companies , which are attracted by low Indonesian wages . |
| 29 | As a consequence of government policy , many of the challenges to the exercise of ministerial discretion in recent years have been instituted by Labour local authorities . |
| 30 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |