Example sentences of "by [be] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes out of town there 's a famous Victorian restaurant where unusual dishes of days gone by are served in intimate , candlelit rooms , a medieval moated manor house now a hotel , and lovely country house hotels with excellent restaurants . |
| 2 | In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters . |
| 3 | The two bodies are often at loggerheads , and there are constant disputes over methods : are the newcomers best served by direct absorption — being given money and subsidies for their first year and then left to cope on their own , or by being placed in one of the 38 Jewish Agency absorption centres . |
| 4 | According to the Bible , Samuel 1:5 , the Ark was desecrated by being placed in the Temple of Dagan , and Samson destroyed both the temple and the statue of the god in retribution before dying there himself . |
| 5 | Eventually he was rewarded for his long and faithful service by being placed in the heavens as the constellation of Aquarius . |
| 6 | Only the top two elements of the stack are ( for speed ) held in processor registers A and B. Operands are added to the top of the stack by being placed in A , whose contents ( if any ) are moved to B. The remainder of a process 's stack is a vector of contiguous store locations . |
| 7 | It is also to be noted that the factual antecedent information is backgrounded by being placed in subordinate positions in these sentences ( see 7.5.1 ) . |
| 8 | Their development is strengthened , not weakened , by being placed in the proximity of other disciplines under the epistemic umbrella offered by the university ( and its sister institutions ) . |
| 9 | Two refuse collectors were recently stabbed by hypodermic syringes which had been incorrectly disposed of by being placed in domestic waste . |
| 10 | In contrast , Jones ( 1989 ) argued that " only the most myopic enthusiasts for parent power can believe that this constituency [ the total number of 100,000 parent-governors ] will , by being placed in a quasi-market situation , automatically start operating as agents of that system " . |
| 11 | The Core Conduct of Business Rules and the third tier are , however , combined although the core rule element is distinguished by being printed in bold type and cross-referenced to the appropriate core rule . |
| 12 | It is the big topic of conversation , and players experience local fame by being waylaid in the streets for a chat about the final . |
| 13 | In larger economic terms , however , some previous attempts at intervention in the regions have been misguided , even patronising , assuming the North best supported by being kept in its place and in the ( terminal ) condition it should expect . |
| 14 | I mean if women have been stunted by being kept in the home , you could argue that men have been stunted by being too much over-identified essentially with the work world . |
| 15 | How is unemployment measured , they 're measuring it in the formal sector , and you can actually live by being employed in the informal sector , which is often not recorded . |
| 16 | For instance , Wilkinson ( 1990 : 81 ) suggests that ‘ information which has been highlighted by being fronted in the Dutch clause lends itself to a translation in English using an IT cleft ’ , but notes that trainee translators working from Dutch into English fail to make use of predicated and identifying themes in their English translations . |
| 17 | In fact , the fibreglass decor was artificially aged by being exposed in the desert for a week before fitting , by the first owners , emigrants from Europe who had reason to foresee the nostalgia boom . |
| 18 | Defamations which endanger the peace by being couched in threatening , abusive or insulting language may be prosecuted under the Public Order Act , and most poison-pen letters can give rise to charges under the provisions of the Post Office Act 1953 or the Malicious Communication Act 1988 . |
| 19 | The torso is unified by being mapped in linear anatomical patterns : exceedingly schematic ; but this is the beginning of the road to the classical athlete-statue . |
| 20 | He was woken some time later by being kicked in the backside quite painfully . |
| 21 | To this is added a rage for acronyms which has survived the ending of the war forty-five years ago , creating a sub-Orwellian world in which words are insensibly destroyed by being absorbed in outlandish cyphers . |
| 22 | In spite of being almost tethered to Marguerite , Jenna enjoyed the trip and was rewarded later by being instructed in the cooking of some of the purchases . |
| 23 | But such a situation is also presented as a thing pre-done , interpreted by being seen in terms of Antony 's meeting with Cleopatra as portrayed by Shakespeare , and as a thing re-done , since the third meeting , that of Princess Volupine with Sir Ferdinand Klein presents us again with a similar situation . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sure you 've noticed how some older men believe their image is enhanced by being seen in public with beautiful young women . ’ |
| 25 | Most diverting is Artegall 's encounter with the Amazon Radigund whose sexual allurements cause him to be captured and emasculated by being dressed in woman 's clothes and forced to spin . |
| 26 | Perpetrators are charged with sexual assault which carries a lesser sentence and victims also suffer additional turmoil by being named in court . |
| 27 | There is however no doubt that the denomination of a purpose as proper or improper in such circumstances raises issues of political and social choice which do not cease to be so by being expressed in the language of vires . |
| 28 | Marcus calculated that by taking into account property costs — estimated at a third of those in London — and salaries on average £2,000 lower , the paper should save £658,000 a year by being based in Manchester . |
| 29 | a ) any Petition against the Bill presented by being deposited in the Private Bill Office at any time not later than the fourteenth day after this day , and |
| 30 | 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 . |