Example sentences of "[pron] [vb mod] be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the obvious exception of Clement Freud [ Note : that 's Sir Clement Freud who said on our 150th anniversary , ‘ I would do nothing for Punch except cheer for its demise . ’ ] , everyone must be saddened by this week 's news . |
| 2 | ‘ No-one should be fooled by the small fluctuation in this month 's unemployment figures as they are being claimed by the Government themselves as possibly erratic . |
| 3 | Any unusual features should be noted and the response to them should be made by an appropriately qualified and experienced person . |
| 4 | Of course there would be some non-contentious business , perhaps quite a lot ; but even then , there must also be the reservation that nothing should be disclosed by the one group to the other which might prejudice its case when the business was contentious . |
| 5 | Then again , I may be struck by lightning before I reach the church . |
| 6 | If I read Shakespeare 's The Merchant of Venice and notice the anti-semitism which surrounds the character of Shylock , I may be bothered by it , even condemn Shakespeare for his anti-semitism . |
| 7 | I realise I must be wanted by the police for Saul Judge 's death , but it was not murder . |
| 8 | But I must be guided by you , sir . ’ |
| 9 | I did n't know if I should be flattered by the offer but I was most put out when my companion said : ‘ Throw in a goat and two carpets and she 's all yours ! ’ |
| 10 | thinking in , in , in the context of our , of our mission , this town wide mission , well that 's Billy 's job , he 's better at it than I am , but its not his job , its my job as much as its his and its your job as much as its mine , we do not well to keep silent these men they were troubled by their sin of silence , perhaps you and I should be troubled by our sin of silence because the extension of that , and here 's the really great thing , as far as they were concerned , the ex the , the ongoing because they were troubled by their sin of silence and they did something about it , they were thrilled at the sight that they saw , as they see the city being delivered , and as they see starving men and women eating food perhaps for the first time in days or weeks , buying good wholesome food at a reasonable price , that was the sigh that thrilled them and you can imagine them , and I think they 'd be entitled to a little bit of pride that I 'm glad we told them , I 'm glad we went back and shared the news apart from any thing we could n't of coped with all ourselves , it would of been so wrong to of kept it , it would of been so wrong just to of eaten it ourselves , I 'm glad we went back and told them . |
| 11 | I might be replaced by an old-fashioned advocate of Latinate grammar , and that would be a disaster for the schools . |
| 12 | I was afraid I might be shot by a startled sentry . |
| 13 | First of all we SUFFERED that defeat last Saturday next I knacker my ankle playing on Sunday and lastly I arrive in Northampton on Monday morning to find that we could only get tickets for Arsenal end on Tuesday ( So Gavin it was n't me being escorted away by the men in black , even though it the current season does n't improve quickly I might be escorted by mem in white . ) |
| 14 | The concept of an objective order demands the possibility of certain criteria of objectivity , such that I might be corrected by others on a given occasion , should I for any reason fall foul of such criteria . |
| 15 | I 'll be gone by the time you wake up in the morning . |
| 16 | Fine I 'll be guided by that . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm pretty fit and I do like cycling but I expect I 'll be shattered by the time I get to the end . |
| 18 | But it 's a ten past ten flight , I 'll be left by half past nine so I 'll be there for half an hour |
| 19 | I suspect they do n't think I 'd be identified by any of the witnesses or I 'd have been on an identity parade by now , but it just all looks so obvious : it must be me . |
| 20 | Because of that it was inevitable that sooner or later I would be delegated by Steve and Paul to fence some of the gear they 'd purloined . |
| 21 | I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others . |
| 22 | Even allowing for the cost of the curtain tape and cotton required , I calculated that I would be overcharged by £80 . |
| 23 | Although , having once decided under section 40(1) that an award was warranted , I would be required by section 41(1) to take account of any benefit the employer ‘ might reasonably be expected to derive ’ , section 40(1) requires me to decide whether the patent is of outstanding benefit , and I conclude that this entails my satisfying myself that such benefit has already been and is being achieved . |
| 24 | I would be informed by telegram that two or three hundred men were leaving Yarmouth by certain trains for Liverpool . |
| 25 | I used at times to feel somewhat worried when she would play the supremely confident coquette with me and I would be enthralled by her charms , but then I came to the conviction , some time ago , that such moments of relatedness could only be nourishing for her developing personality as well as delightful to me . |
| 26 | For instance , in I 'm meeting my teacher , my would be translated by svoj or svoja ( depending on the gender of the following noun ) . |
| 27 | Likewise , in He 's meeting his teacher , his would be translated by the appropriate case form of svojlsvoja provided the referent of his is the same as the referent of he ; otherwise the pronoun used is jego . |
| 28 | One day in the future , the treacherous Deems-figure who arrives to make the test will employ an argument so sophisticated that I shall be convinced by it , and enter the Emperor 's Council Room and kill him . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I will be rejected by others ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I am a laid back character and I do n't think I will be affected by the occasion . |