Example sentences of "to [be] [adj] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 2 | Apparently Swedish cows , secure in the knowledge that they were going to be stunned by true Aryans before they were slaughtered , were happy and friendly towards man ; British cows , who might be bled to death for kosher meat , had no such guarantee and were morose and sullen as a result . |
| 3 | In the need to maintain a belief in civilisation , practices are condoned which , in this case , allowed the Irish to be guilty by racial association for atrocities carried out by members of the IRA . |
| 4 | The only member of the surrogacy team who appears to be unscathed by financial considerations is the obstetrician . |
| 5 | In fact , because of corrosion problems inside the pressure vessel which contains the fuel core , they have all had to be down-rated by varying percentages . |
| 6 | Mr Watkins , a retired admiral , is unlikely to be upset by noisy environmentalists . |
| 7 | Once the phase of immediate implementation was passed , this group came little by little to realign itself with many in the first group against whom they had in the conciliar years themselves taken quite a clear stand : a new status quo must be achieved if the Church was not to be upset by ceaseless change and debate . |
| 8 | A commentary on the effect of Government planning in the last few years is found in the recent report of the Working Party on the Building Industry : ‘ The producers of building materials … found that their assessment of the demand for their goods was liable to be upset by sudden changes of policy which they could not possibly foresee . ’ |
| 9 | Much laboratory work carried out in other fields is found to be irrepeatable by other workers and many orthodox drug trials also produce conflicting results . |
| 10 | So , to the extent that changes in Y t are due to such changes in v t rather than will appear to be unaffected by expected income as we measure it , and therefore we shall obtain an estimate of α 1 which will tend to be less than the true value of α : 1 . |
| 11 | Young intellectuals eager for knowledge , progress and a better future , were bound to be impressed by new solutions to the problems facing contemporary China . |
| 12 | They had travelled 2,000 miles only to be disappointed by cruel coincidence . |
| 13 | They are even admitted to be absurd by Tertullian — ‘ Credo quia absurdum ’ — and believed in for that very reason ; but this is an argument which does not enable us to distinguish which absurd propositions we are to believe Freud thought . |
| 14 | With the Turks at the gates of Vienna as late as the seventeenth century , it is not surprising that Bohemia came to be half-forgotten by Western Europe . |
| 15 | Some shivered in the cold breeze of change : others struck out boldly , with a sense of freedom , glad to be unencumbered by out-of-date gear and padding , glad to cast off notions that had never seemed to themselves to be smart or necessary : naked into the stream , exhilarated , the new emerging race . |
| 16 | Obviously she was still at an age to be amused by funny voices . |
| 17 | She was certainly unlikely to be amused by ill-bred behaviour on the part of those who undoubtedly held themselves to be among Europe 's finest aristocratic stock . |
| 18 | Other people need to be excited by new approaches and this can not be achieved by a dull and formal memorandum . |
| 19 | The banking document and estate agent 's document were both designed to be readable by lay people , and hence used language structures that could be immediately understood . |
| 20 | Their geological mapping was rarely found to be faulty by subsequent investigators . |
| 21 | The doctrine , which may be concerned with national liberation , the emancipation of a class , the emancipation of women or some other general aim which is felt to be important by large numbers of people , has also to include or be founded upon a social theory which can elucidate the principal issues , clarify the objectives and ways of attaining them , and outline alternative forms of society . |
| 22 | Such judgements are supposed to be true or false in a fairly straightforward way , and to be testable by empirical enquiry or perhaps appeal to the common experience of the human race . |
| 23 | Expression from all GGF transfections was judged to be comparable by northern blot analysis of RNA . |
| 24 | Answer : by turning in a record with echoes of Bob Dylan and Van Morrison , which must be as close as popular music comes to high seriousness and sainthood , to being untrammelled by earthly concerns like chart success . |