Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] by [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has taught international seminars in Denmark , France , England , South Africa , Malaysia and Thailand , and all our members who attended the 1986 Coburg course were delighted to be taught by her there . |
| 2 | Her father was the greatest actor-manager since Irving ; she was proud to be taught by him , would as proudly appear in a part which left him , the great Asshe , with no other place for himself than that of Lord Capulet . |
| 3 | But he was old and tired ; he 's had youngsters falling over themselves to be taught by him . |
| 4 | I believe therefore that our music is to be recognized by its melodies , and that it is highly important that they be distinctive , with clear-cut , decisive shapes . |
| 5 | However , senior managers have to consider where the business as a whole is going , and this kind of problem also has to be faced by anyone trying to run their own business , no matter how small . |
| 6 | I am delighted to be joined by my hon. Friend the Member for Paisley , South ( Mr. McMaster ) . |
| 7 | He also knew that if Clasper was to be toppled from his influential position as plant convener — which was essential to the long term recovery of the plant — he would have to be seen to be toppled by his own members , acting in their own interests . |
| 8 | He goes home , to be abused by his wife for not being at work , until he tells her of his heavenly gift . |
| 9 | Though he 'd scarcely taken his eyes off her , and in a strange sort of way appeared to be fascinated by her , she sensed it was the kind of reluctant fascination one might feel for an intriguing , but poisonous snake . |
| 10 | For I liked — I was amazed , never yet having had time for or interest in such delights — I liked to be touched by him . |
| 11 | To be touched by him . |
| 12 | Bluebeard 's wife , about to be killed by her ferocious husband for disobeying his instructions , desperately plays for time as she knows her brothers are on their way to visit her . |
| 13 | I like to treat people as I would like to be treated by them , as a citizen . ’ |
| 14 | She knew it was the beginning of the humiliation that would be heaped upon her , and she was determined not to be broken by it . |
| 15 | It would thus be only for those films with generally low levels of subjective risk or few moving objects that subjects actually looked at the fixed information even in the recognition phase and were thus able to be biased by it . |
| 16 | It was a very fortunate mistake as by then John 's voice was too weak to be heard by them . |
| 17 | b ) any Petition which has been presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office and in which the Petitioners complain of any amendment as proposed in the filled-up Bill or of any matter which has arisen during the progress of the Bill before the Select Committee , being a Petition in which the Petitioners pray to be heard by themselves , their Counsel or Agents . |
| 18 | That any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred to the Select Committee shall , subject to the Rules and Orders of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition , be entitled to be heard by himself , his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and Orders of the House , and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of the Bill against that Petition . |
| 19 | That any Petitioner whose Petition stands referred to the Select Committee shall , subject to the Rules and Orders of the House and to the Prayer of his Petition , be entitled to be heard by himself , his Counsel or Agents upon his Petition provided that it is prepared and signed in conformity with the Rules and Orders of the House , and the Member in charge of the Bill shall be entitled to be heard by his Counsel or Agents in favour of the Bill against that Petition . |
| 20 | A shadow has to be cast by something , he wrote . |
| 21 | In the gut , as in the skin , the properties of the stem cells seem to be maintained by their basal position . |
| 22 | And though some knights might be supplied free by feudal service , household ones had to be maintained by their lords , mercenary ones needed pay , and those with money-fiefs constituted a regular charge on the treasury . |
| 23 | HODSON L.J. : Mr. Priestley has argued that [ as the wife was in desertion when the agreement was made ] she had forfeited all right to be maintained by her husband and so she was giving no consideration at all when she said she would maintain herself , because that is what she would have to do anyway . |
| 24 | The short answer to that is I think that she had not forfeited her right to be maintained by her husband by being in desertion : she had only suspended her right and not destroyed it . |
| 25 | Concentration camp prisoners dressed in German uniforms had been collected near the Polish border and were waiting , drugged , to be shot by their fellow German soldiers , real ones . |
| 26 | I refused to be tempted by anything else . |
| 27 | Grubb , a member of the team who finished second in the Los Angeles Olympics , rode Ever in the 1991 World Cup final in Gothenburg , but afterwards the 11-year-old stayed in Europe , to be ridden by his owner , Enrique Sarasola . |
| 28 | The noble land-owners ' outlook was that of passive rentiers who made it a point of pride to be cheated by their bailiffs ; even if entail had not put technical difficulties in the way of raising capital it is hard to believe that Spanish aristocrats would have conceived of higher rents as a reward of investment . |
| 29 | However , the degree of liberalisation afforded by the Directive is limited ; full freedom to provide insurance on a cross-border or ‘ services ’ basis only applies where the life insurance contract is entered into by the policyholder on their own initiative ; in the case of other ( ’ non-own initiative ’ ) contracts the Directive allows the authorities of the member state into which the insurance is provided to require such services business to be authorised by them . |
| 30 | Pippin too now had new hopes in Francia which seemed to be threatened by his father 's rapprochement with Lothar . |