Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [adv] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 2 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 3 | IIb produces only luxury goods which are consumed solely by the capitalists . |
| 4 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 5 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 6 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 7 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 8 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 9 | The pleasures of driving our GTi are equalled only by the irritations . |
| 10 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 11 | The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens . |
| 12 | We can certainly agree that coal sales are dominated today by the contracts between the generating companies and British Coal . |
| 13 | Clower referred to magnitudes such as as ‘ notional ’ quantities in the sense that firms , if they are constrained only by the parameters of their production function and a given real wage rate , w 1 , would ideally like to supply output and demand labour services . |
| 14 | Under the current arrangements , the priorities within open heart surgery are decided solely by the clinicians concerned . |
| 15 | Candidates are selected locally by the parties , and the parties provide the finance and the organization for the campaign . |
| 16 | Gestures at anti-drug action are made periodically by the authorities . |
| 17 | The artists in the index are a cross-section of landscape and genre painters that appeal to solid middlebrow taste and are bought today by the businessmen and professional people of the kind who bought them when they were painted . |
| 18 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 19 | He is furious that billions of pounds he wanted freed to put in people 's pockets are locked up by the banks ' determination to boost profits . |
| 20 | Most take the experience with typical British humour and carrying on searching until either the dream home is found or they are worn down by the practicalities of price and location . |
| 21 | The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners . |
| 22 | In large leks the satellites have little chance of mating as they are driven away by the residents . |
| 23 | Black youths may feel that their participation in sport has a negative effect on their other school pursuits and it may ; but this does not mean that their academic lives are burnt out by the fires of sporting commitment . |
| 24 | In addition , other legal principles are laid down by the decisions of judges over time , or proclaimed in legislation . |
| 25 | These people are basically independent to the company but they are appointed basically by the directors of the company in a capacity and basically er another safeguard or a check on the actual management what you would call management er governance of the company . |
| 26 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 27 | If they lose their hold on the rock or are swept away by the waves , they will assuredly drown . |
| 28 | The decisions of Margaret Thatcher 's ministers are struck down by the courts as often as were those of the Wilson or Callaghan administrations . |
| 29 | And they are put forward by the schools themselves ? |
| 30 | They are put forward by the schools through the local authorities , except that of course there are a large number of independent schools in East and West Sussex , and these schools have I wrote to these ones asking if they had any children that they wanted to nominate . |