Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Many researchers come to the electronic version of the BL catalogue with experience of its printed version , and so are arguably more fitted by experience to know its idiosyncrasies and quirks . |
| 2 | Concepts and rules are most often taught by definition and description , and whilst this can be successful , given a good communication technique , it has the disadvantage of failing to produce generalisation . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the industrial skills of the area are learned in the very businesses which are most harshly hit by taxation . |
| 4 | Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’ |
| 5 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 7 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 8 | Even though they come from low-wage jobs , unemployed people are usually financially hard-hit by job loss . |
| 9 | Next , by relating the plates and line illustrations to the individual designs , you can use the information contained under each heading in this chapter to limit an item 's probable origins ( e.g. hunting carpets are usually only made by workshop groups in Persia , India , or Pakistan ) . |
| 10 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 11 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 12 | Although this means that student groups are more evenly balanced by gender than was the case with earlier generations of students , men still outnumber women in so-called " traditional " male subjects such as maths , engineering and applied science . |
| 13 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 14 | Our hypothetical typists are still hopelessly outclassed by DNA , even if there is no natural selection . |
| 15 | The picturesque town of Alberobello offers a stunning day out because it is made up of over 1000 whitewashed ‘ trulli ’ houses , quaintly set in hilly , winding streets which are still regularly crossed by pony traps and carts . |
| 16 | There 's others who are probably more motivated by fame and hit records and money , which to me does n't make good music . |
| 17 | The more strikingly ‘ sedimentary ’ structures such as layers graded by grain size or density , and cross-layering , are also simply explained by sedimentation . |
| 18 | An innocent only recently unleashed into the world of international celebritydom , he ca n't comprehend that even its foremost denizens are also sometimes afflicted by star infatuation . |
| 19 | Although arbitrary , this size limit can be related to the idea of morphological capacity since craters below this size are normally a constructional component of strato-volcanoes , whereas those above are nearly always formed by subsidence and collapse following catastrophic eruptions . |
| 20 | Re-negotiation of steps is very commonly required since theoretical assumptions of difficulty are often not mirrored by experience in practice . |
| 21 | Formulae are often heavily constrained by lack of available data at the Local Authority level , which could be remedied at some cost through the ‘ Resource Allocation Survey ’ which is later advocated . |
| 22 | With the exception of bulk traffic like coal and other minerals , the world 's collection and distribution systems are now largely operated by road . |
| 23 | In conclusion , despite all that has been said , it must be emphasised that attitudes are as much affected by reality as affecting reality . |
| 24 | But I 'm still more influenced by artist 's work than by award winning ads . |
| 25 | They are almost entirely produced by damage to peripheral nerves or to roots or to the central nervous system . |
| 26 | ( These are sometimes specifically described by category and amount in an attempt to avoid arguments as to what is material ) . |
| 27 | they are no longer bound by college curricula , timetables or , even , college teaching . |
| 28 | 7 — Empty The files on the media item are no longer required by LIFESPAN . |
| 29 | 7 — Empty The files on the media item are no longer required by LIFESPAN . |
| 30 | Just because their lives are no longer structured by employment or education , there is more space for a variety of life patterns among the elderly of any class background . |