Example sentences of "to be [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was I supposed to be pleased by these comments ? |
| 2 | It is said that they were friendly and ready to be pleased by everything . |
| 3 | Later this choice was considered to be pagan by the Church because of the festivities traditionally associated with it . |
| 4 | ‘ Come down to be warm by the fire , indeed ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Systems such as RTMAS have great practical potential in those emergency situations where there is likely to be self-evacuation by the public . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The critic 's standing is thereby reduced , and the description or evaluation of the prize works is less than likely to be uninfluenced by their new position . |
| 10 | Bouton ( e.g. 1988 , 1990 ) has argued against this summation notion , pointing out that in his own experiments the size of the CR seems to be uninfluenced by the associative value of background cues . |
| 11 | ALEX STEWART professes to be unworried by the thought of meeting the people 's favourite , the massive George Foreman , in the ring tonight in Las Vegas , writes John Hiscock . |
| 12 | The designers of this anti-twitch device look set to make a handy crust from anyone prepared to part with £75 and also prepared to be unworried by stares . |
| 13 | Then it is possible to be selective by shooting the adults only . |
| 14 | Women who reach higher education are not deemed to be successful by virtue of having done so ; on the contrary , higher education continues to exclude and marginalize its female students , pushing them further into ‘ female ’ jobs or marriage and family . |
| 15 | Where normality for each group separately was found to be appropriate by using probability plots a two sample t test was used to compare the mean values of each variable of interest between the regulated and random groups . |
| 16 | But all these changes , and the Prost and Williams issues , still need to be rubber-stamped by a meeting of FISA 's world council in Paris on 18 March , four days after the season-opening South African Grand Prix . |
| 17 | A further five subjects ( four taking ranitidine , one proved to be achlorhydric by intubation studies ) collected urine specimens around the time of breakfast . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The civilian population in Kuwait appeared to be stunned by the invasion , and although some immediately tried to escape into Saudi Arabia most simply remained in their homes . |
| 20 | Fellow undergraduates and tutors at the University were last night said to be stunned by the news of his death . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The only member of the surrogacy team who appears to be unscathed by financial considerations is the obstetrician . |
| 23 | The leadership also has a new control , which makes it less likely to be unhorsed by its own interest-groups than the Callaghan Government was in the late 1970s . |
| 24 | It 's got to be done by actually tackling the people who are going to be violent by preventing them being violent . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is easy to be alarmed by something which one imagines does not happen to other people and which one 's family and friends may suggest is pure imagination or , worse still , the first sign of madness ! |
| 28 | SPECIALISTS are urging women not to be alarmed by the results of a Canadian study on breast cancer screening which is due to be made public soon . |
| 29 | Rachel said huskily , walking to his bedside and trying not to be alarmed by his appearance as she hugged and kissed him . |
| 30 | 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 . |