Example sentences of "[verb] by [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Most of the sounds that we are surrounded by are not musical sounds , ’ Gaver argues . |
| 2 | There 's money to be made , advantage to be gained and amour to be won by being bold . |
| 3 | St Clement , chosen by the Danes as the Patron Saint of their church , was martyred by being tied to an anchor and dropped in the sea — which explains why the symbol of today 's church shows an anchor surmounted by an eagle . |
| 4 | Nepomuk was martyred by being thrown off Charles Bridge under the orders of Wenceslas IV . |
| 5 | The individual psyche is irrevocably shattered by being exteriorized in two separate people : the cool , cerebral psychoanalyst Serena , and her passionate , turbulent twin sister Stella . |
| 6 | Great spiritual power is envisaged in such chastity , and hence the most virtuous woman is one who commits sati or suttee , that is , voluntary suicide committed by being cremated alive with the corpse of one 's husband . |
| 7 | I mean I 'm not , do n't get me wrong , I 'm not one of these formal you know want 's to everything but the idea of this is that we go we get it off the ground and then the management committee take over and run it , it will hopefully have two parish representatives , wo n't be overcommitted by being you know constantly hectored and badgered by people saying this is your ground . |
| 8 | I hope they realise by being here we will bring in a huge amount of trade . |
| 9 | Since she had begun by taking charge he had let her continue doing so , and had responded by being more feckless , lazier and more contrary than he was by nature . |
| 10 | The British responded by being the best at one particular product type , made on a particular machine . |
| 11 | Baffled by the elderly woman 's total animosity and unreasonable behaviour , she had at first responded by being anxiously deferential — abjectly agreeing to every outrageous demand on her husband 's precious time , despite not seeing very much of him herself . |
| 12 | He starts by being a nice little clerk and ends up as a drooling horror-film monster . |
| 13 | A great many anthropogenic wastes — pollution by any other name — could be rehabilitated by being treated as a positive resource only awaiting an inventive ecological design . |
| 14 | Thereafter , Yeremi himself would never again be fazed by being decanted into any foreign environment . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In addition an estimated 500,000 people from poor neighbourhoods in Rangoon , noted for their strong involvement in the 1988 pro-democracy demonstrations , had been disenfranchised by being forcibly relocated to reportedly half-finished satellite townships in mosquito-infested regions of the interior . |
| 18 | ‘ What does s/he achieve by being so defiant ? |
| 19 | Peter Davis , leader of a delegation from the local Conservative Association , said yesterday : ‘ We feel the racecourse would benefit by being taken out of local authority hands . ’ |
| 20 | In my more lucid moments , I often feel that this whole reviewing game would benefit by being reduced to the simple ticking of a box marked yes , this song has a catchy tune and a good beat , or alternatively one marked no , it does n't . |
| 21 | This situation can be prevented by being prepared to release immediately if things start to go wrong , or by being ready to stop the wing coming up suddenly . |
| 22 | A new more punitive role is envisaged for the probation service , which is threatened by being replaced by a new executive service . |
| 23 | Now , last weekend 's cycle ride down the new section of the M forty once looked threatened by being blown away as the Met Office warned of impending storms , but in fact the sun shone down on the riders and today , less than a week the counting is done and Mike Biddolph from Oxfordshire County Council , who also took part in the event , has come up with the grand total of — how much have you raised Mike ? |
| 24 | While it is true that the spores can easily hop over the garden fence , and there is not a lot to be done about sources of infection further along the road , much can be done by being entirely ruthless in cleaning up your fallen leaves and rose debris . |
| 25 | Er to , to work the truth out of things , one has to think what Adam , Adam had lost in the beginning , what Jesus had to gain back , cos according to the Corinthian 's letter that erm Jesus came back to buy back what Adam had lost and if you can work out what Adam had lost in the , in the first place , then you can see the point why you 're put on the earth and you can see that it , that he , he was given a commandment not to take off the , the tree of kno knowledge written by were n't he ? |
| 26 | A system of retention ratios at least gives exporters part of the benefits due to them , since they are assured of most of their import needs , and can sell any surplus foreign exchange on the black market to other enterprises , who also benefit by being able to obtain foreign exchange at a price instead of being at the mercy of administrative decisions by bureaucrats . |
| 27 | They benefit by being eaten less . |
| 28 | Machismo is neutered by being assumed to be synonymous with stupidity and tedium . |
| 29 | A SIX-FOOT high chain link fence between Alton Convent and Anstey Park was vandalised by being cut into strips some time during the weekend . |
| 30 | The Ukrainian national leadership was fatally weakened by being restricted to the intelligentsia and without the dedication to escape from this . |