Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Post-war criticism was ‘ gladiatorial ’ , as John Wain remarked years later , in 1972 , when the excitement had died down ; and attractive to the young for just that reason , since the young feed on moral drama : ‘ they need to feel that they are proving themselves by bravely attacking something powerful . ’ |
| 2 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 3 | A Victorian jug on the mantelpiece had been given him by Louise one Christmas . |
| 4 | The desired religion therefore , must be acceptable , on the one hand to those who follow it because their belief is founded on logic-induced conviction , and on the other hand to those who come to believe , because tentative faith has been given them by others and who have reached conviction through experience . |
| 5 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 6 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 7 | The well-known argument is that the woman 's refusal to concede to sexual intercourse is totally unjustified , since the two bodies have in fact already been made one by a flea , who has been sucking blood from them both . |
| 8 | What there is evidence of , however , is the hardship that some auditing firms are causing themselves by feeling forced to put in dangerously over-competitive bids . |
| 9 | Observing that " governments of the world stand in danger of sabotaging the hope of a new era of human rights " , it asserted that " some are sabotaging it by the violations they commit directly , others by the selectivity with which they exert their influence " . |
| 10 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 11 | While schools are attempting to get away from the system , we are formalising it by offering five different levels of funding . |
| 12 | You , you , you may come across er legislature like this but you , you would n't be sure , when you they 're justifying it by saying that this is natural , this is a progression in er a historical progression and that in fact that it 's a erm it 's only because the , the landlords were , were sort of evil and nasty to us that , that i it , that they , this is happening . |
| 13 | the earths it comes out of so they 're selling it by the bottle in Germany . |
| 14 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 15 | You 're heartlessly manipulating your mother into believing that we 're about to embark on a long and happy marriage , and you 're doing it by manipulating me . |
| 16 | They 're doing it by the . |
| 17 | If you 're doing it by calculation , you pick one corner and draw tr |
| 18 | You 're defending yourself by being indifferent again . ’ |
| 19 | We do n't know if this has finished him , we 're playing it by ear . ’ |
| 20 | One if you 're increasing it by forty five percent if it was a hundred percent and you increase it by forty five hundred percent |
| 21 | ‘ You 're judging me by your own standards ! ’ |
| 22 | You 're dividing it by ten or you 're of-ing , times-ing , multiplying it by one tenth , it 's the same thing . |
| 23 | But the families say they have still not been told anything by the health authority . |
| 24 | But with office facilities so scarce in the Commons , one of the most reliable is to see who 's been offered what by the Whips . |
| 25 | It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police . |
| 26 | James responded by supporting the role of the merchandisers , of whom he said , ‘ I do not think they are changing the LA image — I can only think they are enhancing it by ensuring the best level of stock service to the shops . ’ |
| 27 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 28 | In the hope that this will be agreeable to you I am sending you by post two copies of the agreement we would wish you to sign . |
| 29 | if you ask a subordinate to write you a report explain that you are expecting it by a specific date and always with a one page management summary |
| 30 | Our last Letters are dated Hobart Town Feb. 9 up to which time his expedition had been eminently successful ; far more so than he could have anticipated ; the most liberal assistance had been rendered him by the Authorities , everything that could facilitate his views being cheerfully accorded : while nothing could exceed the kindness of Sir John and Lady Franklin in whose house he was then residing : in fact so much were they interested in his pursuits that upon more than one occasion they accompanied him in his exploring parties . |