Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by [adj] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additional benefits of tree-lined streams , in reducing the effects of nitrates and phosphates in the water and in shading out the choking growth of summer weed in a river bed , which may otherwise necessitate further expensive dredging , have been recognized by Dutch and German scientists for over a decade . |
| 2 | In vivo studies in man have been limited by ethical and technical constraints . |
| 3 | I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive . |
| 4 | The few large passes through the Grey Mountains are guarded by Bretonnian and Imperial fortresses . |
| 5 | Excellent reviews covering urinary and faecal incontinence , constipation , postmenopausal vaginal dysfunction , and anatomical defects — cystocele , rectocele , rectal prolapse — are supplemented by clear and instructive photographs and diagrams . |
| 6 | This theme has been clouded by different and even contradictory ideas , such as a stimulus package and an investment tax-credit to pep up an economy that will probably grow by 3% this year . |
| 7 | Wolfendale argues that the involvement of parents has been fostered by professional and parental convictions rather than the law . |
| 8 | Sexual athletes are attracted by successful and rich women . |
| 9 | Many of the older varieties like Webbs ' ‘ Mammoth Red Tripoli ’ have been superseded by new and improved forms ( left ) |
| 10 | It is a mark of these half-crazed times that my programme of meetings , which once would have been dominated by political and scientific academy briefings , now includes something calling itself the Academy of Entrepreneurship , and an appointment with accountants advising more inward investors . |
| 11 | In addition to the customary dry analysis , this year 's edition will put Japan 's side of an argument that has , until now , been dominated by American and European critiques . |
| 12 | Encounters with professionals are dominated by medical and therapeutic interventions designed to return us to ablebodiedness to assist our physical and psychological ‘ adjustment ’ to personal limitations . |
| 13 | The central question is whether animals possess important characteristics that are not adaptive , and which therefore , by definition , would not have been shaped by natural and sexual selection . |
| 14 | Eight paintings , supplemented with a generous selection of drawings and prints , have been lent by private and public collections . |
| 15 | Just as science affects society , so scientific priorities and ideas are shaped by social and economic forces . |
| 16 | I am visited by dense and dreamless sleep before the horrific wakefulness ; hours in which I do nothing but watch . |
| 17 | Although functionalism has often been attacked as a conservative sociological tradition , some of its terminology and certain aspects of its analysis have been appropriated by Marxist and radical theorists . |
| 18 | Socioeconomically the rural areas are close to the national mean but are over-represented by professional/managerial and semi-skilled workers . |
| 19 | A former North Vietnamese army officer told the Senate select committee on MIA-POW Affairs that some US prisoners had been buried by Cuban and Soviet personnel in 1972 , but that there were none now alive in Vietnam . |
| 20 | Familial adenomatous polyposis ( FAP ) has only recently been shown by clinical and molecular studies to encompass the two conditions formerly known as Gardner syndrome and polyposis coli . |
| 21 | Most of these are supplied by licensed and contract brewing agreements with long-established partners . |
| 22 | Standard weepers are produced by budding and sometimes grafting , rambler types into stems a foot ( 30cm ) or more higher than bush types in order to enhance the weeping effect . |
| 23 | They are enforced by positive and negative sanctions which may be formal or informal . |
| 24 | The research examines how the interactions between government and industry are affected by economic and technological change in the chosen industries , as well as by changes in government policy and the performance of national economies . |
| 25 | That 's … that 's because chromosomes are affected by electric and magnetic fields . |
| 26 | Drab vistas of bare streets lined with parked vehicles have been replaced by attractive and surprising views , differentiated by greenery , alternative parking arrangements and varied paving materials . |
| 27 | There are about 60,000 solicitors in practice , of whom over 3,000 are employed by commercial and industrial organisations . |
| 28 | It is clear that this change is highly evaluated in Belfast in terms of social class hierarchy and status , as it is the more prestigious groups that tend to adopt it and the more ‘ advanced ’ ( generally female and younger ) group who introduce it to the conservative inner-city communities ( which are characterized by dense and multiplex network ties that tend to resist innovation and maintain conservative forms ) . |
| 29 | Some systems are characterized by rapid and sometimes revolutionary change . |
| 30 | Our holiday funds are raised by countless and most often unnamed people who work hard all through the year to swell our funds . |