Example sentences of "be [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oldham 's task at Gateshead may have been eased by the Tynesiders ' dismissal earlier this week of their American guard , Darryl Thomas . |
| 2 | Apart from the language barrier , which has been eased by the general acceptance of English everywhere except in France , British and Continental military staffs have practically no shared operational experience or traditions . |
| 3 | Financial insecurity , once the big driving force , has been eased by the salary , perks and pension of the commissionership , according to his friends . |
| 4 | Since 1982 , the burden of CGT has been eased by the welcome introduction of index-linking . |
| 5 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 6 | Their fears are unlikely to have been eased by the outright grant of office in Monmouth to Buckingham , which dispossessed the holder , John Mortimer . |
| 7 | It had been hidden by the mother , a 16-year-old pupil who kept her pregnancy secret even from her parents . |
| 8 | GARY ‘ CAT ’ JOHNSON , the coach of the season in 1987-88 , has been dismissed by the Leicester Riders . |
| 9 | PETER BURNS , head of the Sheffield World Student Games organisation , has been dismissed by the company which is organising the event , Universiade GB Ltd . |
| 10 | The question to be addressed by an industrial tribunal in a particular case is whether a man would have been dismissed by the employer if , in the same circumstances , he would have been absent for the same length of time for medical reasons . |
| 11 | The Institute had hoped that the Department of Trade and Industry would replace the existing Companies Act legislation with new provisions based on the Directives , but this route has apparently been dismissed by the DTI in its consultative document on implementation , because it would require primary legislation . |
| 12 | The Minister will no doubt refer to the OECD report , which appears to have been dismissed by the hon. Gentleman . |
| 13 | Subsequently , on Feb. 17 , it was reported that a long-range airforce division with nuclear capacity had put itself under Ukrainian jurisdiction , and that its commander , who had been dismissed by the long-range Air Force Commander , Col.-Gen . |
| 14 | Alternatively , employees who might have sued the transferor employer ( i.e. the government department ) directly on the Directive , because , say , they had been dismissed by the department in the course of a contracting out , are not time-barred , if they act before the 1993 Bill is enacted . |
| 15 | The following day , the Committee issued a manifesto expounding its justification for the rising , and appointed General Franco — who , it will be remembered , had been dismissed by the legitimate government of the nation — as chief of the Armies of Morocco and southern Spain . |
| 16 | An appeal against Langbaurgh Council 's decision not to allow the erection of a two-storey side extension at Abrams Buildings in Loftus has been dismissed by the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | Protests from shop owners in Sunderland over increased parking charges have been dismissed by the city 's director of engineering Tom Ball who said that city parking was still amongst the cheapest in the country . |
| 18 | I am fascinated by the roads and tracks and the steeplechase phases in Three Day Events . |
| 19 | I am fascinated by the sculptural elements in nature . |
| 20 | I am fascinated by the use of the English language , I do not wish to undermine it , but , as I would argue , it does overtly undermine 50 percent of its users ( i.e. women ) . |
| 21 | I am fascinated by the difference in the markings on ( some ) of these aircraft . |
| 22 | ‘ I am fascinated by the idea of focus . |
| 23 | Professor Camm , I am fascinated by the data on the prediction of arrhythmic deaths . |
| 24 | It may not be strictly within my remit , but I am fascinated by the amount of space that is being lavished , particularly by the Sunday Times , on the new list of ‘ The Best of Young British Novelists ’ . |
| 25 | At an early stage four bishops had joined the queen in Suffolk ; six had later witnessed the proclamation of Prince Edward as keeper of the realm ; towards the end , more than a dozen prelates had been coerced by the London mob into support for the queen 's party . |
| 26 | But the British professional classes had been examined by the academic team of Lewis and Maude in 1952 , who found cause for concern that taxation had reduced the differentials between the professions to such an extent that they feared their quality might not be maintained . |
| 27 | These are important policy issues which have been examined by the author , as well as other commentators , elsewhere and which merit further critical analysis ( e.g. Hudson , 1990 ; Phillipson , 1990 ; Hughes , 1991 ; Osborne , 1991 ) . |
| 28 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 29 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 30 | ( nearly one in five ) had been stopped by the police in the street . |