Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The result is that our good companies are embarrassed and undermined by the behaviour of the bad and even the bad by the worst . ’ |
| 2 | Sgt Paul Robinson said : ‘ These are dangerous if taken by the wrong people . |
| 3 | Browning 's defence lawyer says this and other evidence could have been crucial if heard by the trial jury . |
| 4 | As he left court , Bartman said in a statement through his solicitor that he had been horrified and shocked by the murder and had always emphatically denied the allegations against him . |
| 5 | The situation concerning the manufacturers is equally insulting , as having attended three of the past four Open Championships I have been frustrated and angered by the scarcity of left-handed equipment exhibited in the tented village . |
| 6 | The group are shaded and protected by the branches of an aged English oak which , at the same time , embraces and supports a declining West India palm . |
| 7 | The conviction that texts are voiceless until vocalised by a reading has an up-side and a down-side . |
| 8 | The take-up has been better than indicated by the survey we would support the views expressed regarding changes and in particular point thirteen . |
| 9 | If they are made more onerous an affirmative resolution of each House of Parliament is needed : if not , they are effective unless annulled by a resolution of either House . |
| 10 | Very often the swim you have chosen will not need any modification whatsoever , but on lakes where the banks are swampy and surrounded by a wide belt of rushes some preparation in the close season is necessary . |
| 11 | His views on the NHS , the ‘ Social Market ’ , the reform of our political system and Europe are robust and shaped by a great independence of mind . |
| 12 | But these limitations are more than offset by the sheer quantity of coins and hence of the designs made . |
| 13 | Nor have the costs been high ; at only 14 DM per square metre of street , they are not only absolutely low but are more than offset by the saving to society of the reduced accident level that results . |
| 14 | Small amounts of vitamins and minerals in beer are more than offset by the adverse effect of the alcohol on your nutritional state . |
| 15 | The few quickly-processed updates that are handled first , if direct processing is adopted , are more than counterbalanced by the shorter overall run time and thus better average service performance achieved by batching and sorting . |
| 16 | Under these circumstances , there is little doubt in my mind that the supposed advantages of support teaching are more than outweighed by the disadvantages which it presents . |
| 17 | The second , profession of faith , would , as now , be public and preceded by a course of instruction . |
| 18 | Its symbolism may or may not be universal for all mankind , or for all within one culture , but enough dream material is common for others to be interested and gripped by a person who recounts his dreams . |
| 19 | It may be cordless or attached by a cable to the VCR . |
| 20 | It may be out of date and uninteresting or it may be sophisticated and supplemented by every kind of device and full of interest . |
| 21 | Under the Trade Disputes Act 1906 no action for conspiracy would lie unless the act would be unlawful if done by a person alone . |
| 22 | The prospect of achieving early sale would be better if effected by the borrowers while in occupation rather than by the lenders . |
| 23 | You will be less than gruntled by the following job application , posted in Sammy Dunlop 's Tackle Shop at Ballydown , outside Banbridge . |
| 24 | It is well known that responses to a stimulus presented off-centre will be faster when made by the limb on the same side of the body as the stimulus appears , that is , when stimulus and response are said to be compatible ( Fitts and Seeger , 1953 ) . |
| 25 | If they believed they had ‘ natural ability ’ , they well knew that it had to be refined and fastened by a bridle of discipline . |
| 26 | Once we see that the relationship between a set of explanatory principles and the more specific analyses offered by social scientists must be a reciprocal one we are able to benefit from the fact that , just as social scientific practice is moulded by existing views of explanation , so those views can be refined and altered by the impact of practice . |
| 27 | The memorandum expressed the government 's confidence that the extra costs would be more than covered by the savings they made possible . |
| 28 | By reducing the tax distortion and increasing the amount of work a lot , lower taxes would be more than compensated by the extra work and incomes to which the tax rates were applied . |
| 29 | Mrs Teresa Jane Strachan , a Newcastle town-planner , said that although the new private hospital building would take away 69 car-parking places , this loss would be more than compensated by the two new Bioplan car parks . |
| 30 | Jebel Ali container volume has increased by over five times since 1988 and general cargo will be more than tripled by the end of 1991 , ’ he said . |