Example sentences of "[vb base] to be [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never cease to be struck by the extraordinarily high performances individuals can turn in when faced with a challenge properly identified and given the means to deliver . |
| 2 | If a similar plot for a set of randomly-generated stream patterns shows the same result then it can be concluded , that in the absence of geological and topographical controls , stream patterns appear to be generated by random processes . |
| 3 | The main effects of this infection appear to be caused by the adult worms in the intestines of calves up to six months old . |
| 4 | He was dismissed by the colonial secretary , Lord Stanley ( later fourteenth Earl of Derby , q.v. ) , despite acknowledgement that ‘ his efforts appear to be rewarded by the decline of crimes of violence and outrage and by the growth of humane and kindly feeling in the minds of persons under his care . ’ |
| 5 | As the guidance points out , ‘ there are occasions where objectivity may be threatened or appear to be threatened by the provision to an audit client of services other than the audit ’ . |
| 6 | But while the Velvet ones seem deliciously free of hang-up and come-downs , Perspex Whiteout appear to be hamstrung by all the social conventions that have crippled a worrying number of home-grown guitar could-have-beens . |
| 7 | Both enzymes appear to be activated by viral double-stranded RNA . |
| 8 | A number of present-day non-standard and casual speech forms appear to be indicated by some features of variable ME spelling . |
| 9 | The cause in both cases appears to be the strength of catholic — nationalist and protestant — loyalist popular consciousness and the way in which the cultural and material interests of the subordinate classes appear to be represented by the alliances themselves and their institutions . |
| 10 | Several of the above points appear to be endorsed by Pearson 's cogent account of what makes the hooligan tick : |
| 11 | Many appear to be infected by the phocine distemper virus , which was blamed for the epidemic which afflicted dolphins in the North Sea in 1988 . |
| 12 | In other cases the split between central government as a policy initiator and local government in the role of implementer produces a situation in which central intentions appear to be thwarted by local scarcities . |
| 13 | Our customers expect to be served by people who are well turned out . ’ |
| 14 | Most councillors expect to be lobbied by constituents and asked to intervene on their behalf . |
| 15 | Most professional and managerial employees expect to be rewarded by progressively-rising income , status and security . |
| 16 | There are no homes close to the area where the body was found , but workers in the docks area expect to be questioned by police . |
| 17 | ‘ I think the Arthur Daley image , picked up in the 50s and 60s , is unfair now but people still expect to be greeted by a young man in a sharp suit who baffles them with technical details and hard sell . ’ |
| 18 | Wycombe , handsome leaders of the Conference , expect to be backed by an army of 3,500-plus travelling fans and O'Neill promised : ‘ We 'll be giving it our best shot for them . ’ |
| 19 | But ‘ artists like sailors — if they expect to be gratified by rare sights — must pay the price . ’ |
| 20 | When we include fairy stories in our consideration of ‘ the short story ’ , we realise how central they have been to our childhood , adolescence and adulthood , too : how we have pored eagerly over them because we ourselves , like Snow White , have feared our mother 's envy ; because , like Little Briar Rose , we imagine the gap between the child and the woman to stretch over a hundred years ; because , like Cinderella , we long to be protected by the good mother from the bad mother . |
| 21 | Talk about jumping the gun — the machines are n't even announced for another three weeks , but Hopkinton , Massachusetts-based Clearpoint Research Corp reckons that there are potential users out there that already realise they ordered too little memory for the things and want to be prepared by having add-on memory ready and waiting on site . |
| 22 | They want to be engrossed by your speech ; they want the occasion to be a success . |
| 23 | They would n't be keen on anyone with psychological quirks — like an entrenched hatred of men , for instance , or someone who is adopting a child merely because they want to be loved by a child . |
| 24 | You quickly get past the point of worrying that there are no guitars here , Phil Ramone and the orchestra do a superb job of keeping the arrangements crisp and fresh , and the strings never overwhelm the singer , even when she is at her most whispering , as in the Marilyn vehicle ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ and amidst the tragic melancholy of ‘ Gloomy Sunday ’ . |
| 25 | She follows this with a beautifully breathy version of Cole Porter 's ‘ You Do Something To Me ’ ( from ‘ Red , Hot & Blue ’ ) and the Marilyn Monroe classic ‘ I Want To Be Loved By You ’ ( boo boo be doo ! ) and ( next week , fan mugs ! ) you get the chance to buy the second half of this two CD set including the title track ( again ) plus ‘ Someone To Watch Over Me ’ and — wait for it — ‘ My Heart Belongs To Daddy ’ . |
| 26 | We want to be loved by everyone . ’ |
| 27 | The TV cameras attract the mindless who want to be seen by their friends . |
| 28 | I hope your excellent paper will bring pressure to bear on the media and make April 23 a special day , and make the English realise they want to be ruled by their own countryman . |
| 29 | The members are all equal , but all want to be ruled by one person , who is superior to them all . |
| 30 | A theatre annual for 1791 , extolling the fine orchestra ( under La Houssaye ) of the new Italianate Theatre de Monsieur , claims that French ensembles ‘ want to be reassured by a donkey-stick [ guideâne ] ’ But these are shafts on behalf of Italian opéra as a whole , trading on memories of Rousseau 's ridicule and the mere fact that the Opéra was directed by a conducteur . |