Example sentences of "we [am/are] [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious reply to this argument is that we need a reason to accept a decision reached behind this veil of ignorance , and the claim that no decision would be reached behind a differently constructed veil of ignorance is not such a reason unless it has already been shown , as it has not in fact , that we are bound by the results of some veil of ignorance , whatever it may be . |
| 2 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 3 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 4 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 5 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 6 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 7 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 8 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 9 | We are bound by the Insurance Ombudsmans decision , but you are not . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ We are disturbed by the recent reports showing the prevalence of solvent abuse in Darlington . |
| 11 | We reach the Welsh border in five hours , but soon lose our way and travel thirty miles in the wrong direction , during which we are stopped by the Welsh police . |
| 12 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 13 | Unlike our city cousins we are affected by the weather and the seasons , and have to be governed by them . |
| 14 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 15 | We are elected by the public to do a job and we should n't be ashamed of the amount of money that we 're paid for it , and what I would say is , that no manifesto in May 's election said we were going to come here and vote for more money for members , nobody put on their leaflets , vote for me and I will raise members allowances by five percent in the coming year , I did n't and I wo n't support that , and you will argue , perhaps some of you that that 's not really what we 're doing , but it look 's like it , does n't it ? |
| 16 | We are invited by the story-teller to believe that the part-random , part-intended day-to-day course of life would lend itself to discipline , with a beginning , a middle and an end . |
| 17 | It was precisely this opportunity to make and unmake Cabinets which led Bagehot to argue that " the ultimate authority in the English constitution is a newly elected House of Commons " : " we are ruled by the House of Commons " . |
| 18 | ‘ But we live in a society where we are ruled by the clock . |
| 19 | Standing at the right angle , we are dazzled by the colours of the rainbow in colourless ice . |
| 20 | It may well be that , throughout our careers we are motivated by the desire to satisfy different needs . |
| 21 | If we are troubled by the fact that the corporatist countervision we find hinted at in the legal materials might become simply a mask behind which corporate managers exercise unconstrained economic and social power , an alternative avenue for research is available to us . |
| 22 | But we are saved by the bell . |
| 23 | Yet , when we finally gain the object of our desire , we are baffled by the constant emptiness we still feel . |
| 24 | However , because we are adopted by the Spirit and yet naturally sons and daughters of Adam , the old nature still wars with the new . |
| 25 | We are fascinated by the wary our ‘ smart weapons ’ are mobilised to ‘ knock out ’ and ‘ take apart ’ , to ‘ neutralise ’ and ‘ cleanse ’ , enemy targets in what is called the ‘ theatre ’ of Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 26 | All too often in politics we are handicapped by the fact that Mrs Jones has done something a certain way for twenty-seven years and therefore must be allowed to do it again this time . |
| 27 | Instead of the great epic being told over and over by the bards and preachers of the word , we are offered by the critics snatches of data to be dissected , truncated , and — most scandalously of all — ‘ authenticated ’ . |
| 28 | We are encouraged by the prospects for our growth businesses led by autocatalysts , electronic materials and biomedical products . |
| 29 | We are encouraged by the success of this venture which is seen as being a very important contribution , not only to the WISE programme but in extending the influence of technology to more girls , particularly now that the subject is included in the National Curriculum . |
| 30 | I had cavalierly presupposed that theme parks make people happy , that whereas for most of us there 's generally a vague resistance to be overcome when we are confronted by the more cerebral seductions of art and literature — a resistance rooted in their potential obscurities and our cultural insecurities — a ‘ ride ’ in the Disneyworld sense caters to an immediate , instinctive and near-universal appetite for simple , sensual gratification and can therefore dispense with too much analysis . |