Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 2 | Three 12year-olds were rescued by the Tynemouth inshore lifeboat after being cut off by the tide just south of the Marsden Grotto at South Shields . |
| 3 | After being taken over by the Catuvellauni they had a right to expect some restoration of their territories . |
| 4 | The company now has 260 employees , up from 170 at its birth and has won Borland International Inc chief Phillipe Kahn over — ‘ Technically , it 's brilliant and Taligent is running much faster than I expected ; instead of being bogged down by the bureaucracies of its two large parents , Taligent seems to have taken the best of each company , ’ Kahn commented to the Journal , which notes that Wordperfect Corp and and Novell Inc are doing applications . |
| 5 | Some of the problems of the relative parts played by waves and currents are in process of being cleared up by the use of traceable sand and shingle . |
| 6 | The association between reading skill and the use of the GPC route was confirmed by a negative correlation between the time taken to pronounce a list of words and the size of the pseudo-homophone impairment : the more skilled children gave a greater indication of being slowed down by the appearance of nonwords which sounded like words . |
| 7 | IRAQ threatened yesterday to send fighters to patrol its border with Iran , but British and American officials said that would violate the terms of the Gulf war ceasefire and put the aircraft at risk of being shot down by the allies . |
| 8 | Ernest Long summarised the change snappily in his note to the Authority 's accountant when they were working out the implications in 1954 : ‘ instead of being messed about by the long-haired boys at the Treasury we are now dealt with by the Finance boys — and we much prefer it that way ’ . |
| 9 | Investment criteria that are applied as a matter of course to every other company are in danger of being abandoned completely as the institutions face the prospect of being sucked in by the Government 's subtle propaganda . |
| 10 | I recently had the opportunity of being shown round by the Director of Information Services , Dr. Colin Harris . |
| 11 | Are not those successful British companies sick and tired of being talked down by the doom-monger Labour party ? |
| 12 | But there are few advocates for patients with anorexia nervosa and they carry the risk of being squeezed out by the increasingly technological emphasis of general medicine and the concentration of psychiatric services on the needs of chronic psychotic patients . |
| 13 | You know the tone of the voice could completely waylay you know lay lay completely your fear of being told off by the by the pleasant tone in your voice . |
| 14 | A brisk antipodean , she moved with speed and efficiency , despite being weighed down by the most magnificent chest Amiss could remember ever seeing in real life . |
| 15 | It was like being washed up by the tide and left stranded . |
| 16 | Sybillin had been foot perfect up to that point and , far from being put off by the drama around him , flew the remaining fences to come home 10 lengths clear of Knight 's Spur . |
| 17 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 18 | My neck ached from being forced up by the arm of the settee . |
| 19 | JAGUAR and General Motors were last night locked in crucial talks over a deal which would safeguard the luxury car maker from being taken over by the rival US motor giant Ford . |
| 20 | Their excellent record as landlords and non-involvement in local politics saved Riverstown from being burnt down by the IRA in 1922 . |
| 21 | Ships were carved from the blighted forests with supernatural speed , and raiders moved as far as the Isle of the Dead before being turned back by the warding spells . |
| 22 | There were two minor shock-waves from the nose of the craft , rippling through the cockpit before being shrugged off by the surging momentum of the sleek fuselage . |
| 23 | He completed his thesis on Lorenzo di Credi and worked in Italy at the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence and the Biblioteca Herziana , Rome , before being taken on by the Albertina , Vienna . |
| 24 | Most of them must first pass through a stage of being used within LE by black speakers , before being taken up by the LE speaking community as a whole . |
| 25 | That morning she had only been on board a couple of hours before being hauled off by the Customs men . |
| 26 | The project is to be paid for with a tailor-made $29m World Bank loan , which is scheduled to be approved by the Hungarian government later this month , before being signed off by the bank . |
| 27 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |
| 28 | If you 're successful on this er current application , you wo n't , but erm supposing this application were to be turned down by the planning authority , er that you were successful upon the appeal on the first one you would actually proceed according to the plan that was submitted at the first one . |
| 29 | Cumberland decided that Wales was the more likely objective , though he tried to cover himself by arranging for the road between Buxton and Derby to be broken up by the Derbyshire militia to slow Charles down should he take it instead . |
| 30 | These have to be broken down by the digestive system before they are absorbed as single units of mainly glucose and fructose . |