Example sentences of "[noun sg] to [be] [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not a child to be frightened by a resolution of a board of directors , or to be soothed by the present of shares ( each carrying 10 liability ) in a company which has been losing money every year from its commencement , and which nothing short of a miracle could make pay a dividend as hitherto managed ; neither is my position in Scientific Circles here such as to render my retaining the editorship of any advantage to me — indeed , I am vain enough to think that I confer more than I receive . |
| 2 | Bailey 's private design work enabled the first prototype to be ready by 5 May , with production bridges reaching the army in December 1941 . |
| 3 | In cases falling within this protected class , equity would hold the security given by the surety to be unenforceable by the creditor if : ( i ) the relationship between the debtor and the surety and the consequent likelihood of influence and reliance was known to the creditor ; and ( ii ) the surety 's consent to the transaction was procured by undue influence or material misrepresentation on the part of the debtor or the surety lacked an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction ; and ( iii ) the creditor , whether by leaving it to the debtor to deal with the surety or otherwise , had failed to take reasonable steps to try and ensure that the surety entered into the transaction with an adequate understanding of the nature and effect of the transaction and that the surety 's consent to the transaction was a true and informed one . |
| 4 | that , if undue influence or misrepresentation on the part of the husband had been established , he would have held the charge to be unenforceable by the bank . |
| 5 | You 're not the first person to be impressed by her voice . |
| 6 | For a sample to be datable by TL it has to be crystalline but non-metallic . |
| 7 | However , the most we could offer these determined inventors was a chance to be well-known by their peers for a week or two . |
| 8 | Guideline 22 : Give your youngster the chance to be responsible by giving him/her responsibility . |
| 9 | This should have the twin advantage of reducing the level of demand to be satisfied by any individual agency whose efficiency should thereby be increased ; and multiplying the information available to budget reviewers , thereby improving the detection of inefficiencies in bureaucratic budgeting . |
| 10 | Obviously she was still at an age to be amused by funny voices . |
| 11 | They are far too enwrapped by their own insane vision of imminent doom to be worried by such things . |
| 12 | But why does Thomas consider a woman to be defective by nature ? |
| 13 | Next it was Hunt 's turn to be confused by the Australian Warwick Brown , who was driving his first race and who , practically without gears , was going as near zero as possible in the middle of the chicane . |
| 14 | The NUT is n't the only union to be alarmed by the fact that some schools are attempting to influence parental choice through ‘ free gifts ’ on enrolment . |
| 15 | In the general excitement — the novel has scarcely begun — it gets borne in upon the reader that Stavrogin 's conduct is not the only thing to be puzzled by . |
| 16 | All those smug fellows in Charlotte Square have far more reason to be alarmed by this cogent , lucid Leftism than the silly Red Romance of a world run between the DHSS and Lothian Regional Council . |
| 17 | This belief means it is quite common today for a newly wed bride to be terrified by the omen of a white hare appearing in her path , for this augers ill for her marriage . |
| 18 | Two other men had travelled from Glasgow in order to be close by when the great event happened . |
| 19 | Often a child asked to read his work aloud will pick out his own errors as he tries to say them , because he is a good enough reader to be confused by what he wrote down . |
| 20 | But that 's not such a bad deal for customers because the law does n't allow any pack to be underweight by more than a small amount . |