Example sentences of "[be] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | They demonstrate that no heights are unobtainable by British Industry if it is willing to apply its enterprise and commitment to excellence . |
| 2 | First , union organization is weak compared with BR , and the majority of employees are unrepresented by unions . |
| 3 | You can not see the bearers until they are right by you so the effect is of the person floating on air as he passes along the heads of the crowd and leans over to shake hands . |
| 4 | Late night I was in bed by twenty past ten , I was in bed and I say I must of been asleep by half past , |
| 5 | Third , Indian exports have been depressed by a combination of politics and nature . |
| 6 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 7 | Doubtless their minds are uncluttered by the thought that in the fullness of time they themselves will appear on the list . |
| 8 | Programmed learning made significant contributions to education , particularly in industrial and military training ( where of course motivation is fairly high and the units of information to be assimilated are uncluttered by humanistic value judgements ) . |
| 9 | While a good many artists and dealers have clearly been upset by Saatchi 's actions , no one feels absolutely confident about the motives behind them , and Saatchi himself absolutely declines to discuss his dealings , whether in art or business . |
| 10 | Too many people have been upset by their experiences at the hands of a hairdresser . ’ |
| 11 | Not for the first time , therefore , a government keen on deregulation has been upset by the results . |
| 12 | He began by saying he had been asked to speak on censorship and that he had been upset by the reception meted out to Sinead O'Connor at the Madison Square Garden Bob Dylan tribute . |
| 13 | I 've known people who have been upset by , you know , |
| 14 | She put her head on one side , trying to make him understand from the look in her eyes that Stephen had been upset by the references to his mother 's death . |
| 15 | I had been upset by the news about George . |
| 16 | Mrs Diggory was herself but little touched , Theda believed , but she had been upset by her husband 's woeful demeanour . |
| 17 | She 'd been upset by that . |
| 18 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 19 | He was put on probation and ordered to do community service after a solicitor said he 'd been upset by the death of his mother . |
| 20 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 21 | Most children who suffer from day wetting have primary enuresis , that is they have never been dry by day . |
| 22 | What I have argued so far is that the Situationists are ill-served by these publications , and that this is partly due to the influence of a certain pessimism which haunts contemporary cultural politics . |
| 23 | Young people are ill-served by arts programmes . |
| 24 | His ‘ invention ’ , like that of hobbits , has been well-chronicled by Humphrey Carpenter ( Biography , pp. 64 and 172 ) ; the two cases are in several ways similar . |
| 25 | Whether or not they are cost-effective by comparison with other approaches is another matter . |
| 26 | The pilot study is being carried out by Aids expert Professor Jonathan Weber and results are due by the end of 1993 . |
| 27 | RFT summaries must be received by May 2 and full submissions are due by June 1 . |
| 28 | Submissions for widgets are due by September 4 . |
| 29 | Elections to the Federal Assembly are due by June 1992 ; the Federal Assembly will then elect the President . |
| 30 | South Africa 's first multi-racial elections are due by the middle of next year . |