Example sentences of "to [be] [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were also closely linked , for provoking or allowing the return of Republican " chaos " and , therefore , the disintegration of the nation , was the ultimate , awful responsibility to be pondered by putative dissenters in the Francoist camp . |
| 2 | It was marvellous to be taught by new faces , especially Bedu who had come from Coburn . |
| 3 | And , as one later moved into other divisions to be taught by other people one always seemed to come back to the Roman Conquest of Britain , which I found particularly boring , and learnt nothing . |
| 4 | Diet used to be taught by personal interview and printed diet sheet . |
| 5 | To be a Foodie , to be recognized by other Foodies as such — that is the most succulent form of bliss . |
| 6 | Conversely , emotional or mental problems can arise from a physical cause , as was the case with the victim of the instant coffee , and this is even less likely to be recognized by orthodox practitioners . |
| 7 | In addition it would enable correspondence that deals with several aspects of Council Tax to be dealt with at the same time and a co-ordinated response to be prepared by nominated officers . |
| 8 | Green spaces in and around London are under constant threat from developers and difficult decisions about their future use have to be faced by public authorities . |
| 9 | It must be irritating for ministers , used to almost unbridled power at Westminster , to be faced by hostile local bodies who can also claim to have a democratic mandate . |
| 10 | Pouring across the Pennines from Lancashire to be joined by eager exalted crowds from Bradford , Halifax , Barnoldswick , Huddersfield , Frizingley , some of them carrying sticks and flails and home-made pikes , most of them empty-handed and full-hearted , singing their Chartist hymns of freedom and justice and brotherhood and stopping every mill they passed on their way by the simple process of removing the plug from the boiler , letting off the mill-dam , and drawing the workers into their ranks with the irresistible attraction of a ragged , hundred-handed Pied Piper . |
| 11 | She thinks we 're perverts , condemned by the Church , men who 've allowed their normal natures to be twisted by depraved men . |
| 12 | ‘ In India ’ , Rosa Luxemburg wrote , ‘ nationalism is an expression of the rising indigenous bourgeoisie which seeks to exploit the country for its own ends rather than to be drained by English capital ’ . |
| 13 | He allowed himself to be groped by motherly women crammed into uniforms of the kind which once might have been issued to the Croatian National Guard , and entered the ante-hall of the conference centre with a quite irrational lifting of the spirit . |
| 14 | The social fund was significant for three main reasons : it replaced individual rights based on regulations with discretion which was to be applied by social fund officers ; the budget for social fund payments was to be cash-limited ; and most payments would be in the form of loans rather than grants . |
| 15 | However , Vauxcelles 's original references to the ‘ cubes ’ in Braque 's work and to his ‘ bizarreries cubiques ’ had been intended disparagingly , and the term ‘ Cubism ’ continued to be applied by hostile critics to the work of the more advanced painters whom they could not understand or appreciate , and by perceptive critics to these same artists whom they considered to be pioneers in a new movement . |
| 16 | For instance , Orchin developed a severe stomach ulcer after he was charged which became increasingly worse during the years on bail until it had to be treated by major surgery . |
| 17 | They may suffer long delays in reaching hospital and are likely to be treated by junior doctors , says a survey of 15,000 victims , carried out at 33 hospitals . |
| 18 | She said homeopathy had come full circle now and it was quite the in-thing to be treated by herbal remedies . |
| 19 | Lugard also laid down an elaborate protocol for dealing with the emirs and chiefs , who were to be treated by British officers with the precise degree of courtesy — and no more — which their rank deserved . |
| 20 | For mentally ill people local care may be undesirable if they wish to be treated by anonymous carers rather than people who may live in their own locality . |
| 21 | Until 1861 a man could hang for engaging in homosexual relations , and as recently as the early 1970s many doctors still regarded homosexuality as an illness to be treated by electric shock therapy . |
| 22 | There are a number of textual features that tend to be ignored by generative parsing systems . |
| 23 | In Kuhn 's account of science the values operative in the process of science and determining the acceptance and rejection of theories are to be discerned by psychological and sociological analysis of the scientific community . |
| 24 | We are told by our leaders that new killing fields around the world have to be serviced by British soldiers and that more , not fewer , men are needed . |
| 25 | But if the torture is to be compounded by organised mass merrymaking , life will soon become unendurable . |
| 26 | These high-pitched sounds are unlikely to be heard by passing fish , however , because although a few species , such as minnows , can hear as high as 8000 hertz , the majority are most sensitive to low frequencies and hear little above 500 hertz . |
| 27 | In fact , almost a hundred years ago , Hawaiian music 's infectious melodies were starting to seep into much of the American continent , to be heard by white audiences in the northern states , the blacks in the South and even Latin Americans . |
| 28 | And this arrangement , in turn , may have to be maintained by political or ideological means . |
| 29 | Once there , performance needs to be maintained by regular reviews ( see page 147 ) . |
| 30 | The forests are dwindling , thousands of deer starve to death every winter , and those that survive to be shot by rich outsiders for the profit of absentee landlords are about half the size of their European cousins . |