Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 2 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 3 | Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements : |
| 4 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 5 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 6 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 7 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 8 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 9 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 10 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 11 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |
| 12 | These slow waves pervade the head to the extent that they are also picked up by the EOG electrodes , just as K complexes are . |
| 13 | On the whole , most of us lead very sedentary lives these days and are often put off by the thought of taking exercise . |
| 14 | This is perfectly normal when the body goes through the physiological changes which are often brought about by the Technique . |
| 15 | Most models are strongly ruled out by the poor fit . |
| 16 | Their calls are immediately taken up by the whole team and the spectators on the ground so that the forest rings with wild and terrifying shrieks . |
| 17 | These are then sent out by the retailer . |
| 18 | Experienced advisers never respond to this question , but the unrepresented applicant often responds to the question with bizarre unsupportable allegations of bias and corruption by the employer which are sometimes seized on by the tribunal to the prejudice of the applicant . |
| 19 | As my hon. Friend will know and as hon. Members will hardly need to be reminded , a large number of roles are currently carried out by the Royal Auxiliary Air Force . |