Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] by [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the signals involved are of low-enough frequency for reactive and other frequency-dependent effects to be negligible , the Z-parameters are given by the slopes of appropriate static characteristics at the operating bias levels . |
| 2 | The two probability distributions of B are given by the squares of moduli of two such wavefunctions . |
| 3 | Snotlings are great mimics and are fascinated by the activities of their larger relatives , which , although their actions are completely inexplicable to Snotlings , they will often cheerfully imitate . |
| 4 | Those who are fascinated by the minutiae of stratigraphical correlation may be horrified at my generalisations . |
| 5 | As with all claims made by competing groups for the objective nature of their own discourse , those made by the Royal Society are tainted by the contingencies of the world in which they were made . |
| 6 | So , for example , among the Muslim Somali of north-east Africa , married women are frequently prone to mysterious complaints which are diagnosed by the experts as possession by evil spirits . |
| 7 | The broad policies of investment trust companies are set out by a board of directors , and as with any limited company they are limited by the articles of association and shareholder approval . |
| 8 | I am not sure how far , without these visible or audible marks of strangeness , ‘ they ’ would be recognised by cultural differences , though in racist reactions much is made of such things : how good Frenchmen are insulted by the smells of North African cooking , or good Brits by that of curry emanating from their neighbours . |
| 9 | Such difficulties are compounded by the complexities of dealing with children who are bilingual . |
| 10 | Yet when such annoyances are compounded by the strains of family living , what would cause one family annoyance might easily add up to long-term unhappiness in another family . |
| 11 | " Moons make speed to repair their heavenly losses " ( Michie 1964 ) ; " While , though , waning moons can mend their celestial losses " ( Leishman 1956 ) ; " Her losses soon the moon supplies " ( Johnson 1784 ) ; " But oh , whate'er the sky-led seasons mar , / Moon upon moon rebuilds it with her beams " ( Housman 1944 ) ; " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " ( Marsh 1940 ) . |
| 12 | The choice may depend on who I am , and even on when I live ; Edward Marsh 's version — " These wounds of the wheeling skies are healed by the moons in their flying " — was published in wartime , in December 1940 ( the year of the Battle of Britain ) . |
| 13 | As the radiation decreases by the square of the distance to the source , the highest radiation doses are received by the hands of the investigator . |
| 14 | For it has come to pass that through marriage certain feelings are communicated by the partners to each other and , more important , to society at large . |
| 15 | Both single people and married couples may feel a sense of frustration as the years in which they had planned to be more free to go out and about , and less restricted financially , are circumscribed by the demands of caring . |
| 16 | Students are regarded by the banks as the ripest harvest of all : the people who will be earning the highest balances in the future and who are likely to stay loyal for life once signed up . |
| 17 | Students are regarded by the banks as the ripest harvest of all : the people who will be earning the highest balances in the future and who are likely to stay loyal for life once signed up . |
| 18 | It is essential that the inside surface is smooth and flowing , any ripples are exaggerated by the reflections from the spherical surface . |
| 19 | Society — for what it has done to those who are trapped by the forces of the big city . |
| 20 | The intervals are predetermined by the elements of a motor task or more simply by the target cycle time of a task . |
| 21 | Ministerial contacts of this kind are supplemented by the activities of the junior Ministers , the Parliamentary Private Secretaries , and the Government Whips . |
| 22 | More specifically , we can ask what implications are carried by the sentences about the contexts in which they are being used . |
| 23 | It is this set of implementation questions which are addressed by the papers in this special edition of the journal . |
| 24 | We are reminded by the silences in Leapor 's texts that the pursuit of happiness as an enabling myth , in terms of official precept accessible to women through romantic love and marriage , remains in this period largely a privilege of bourgeois male subjects . |
| 25 | Well there is n't actually regrettably there is so much personal debt within the City , and the problem is rising to such an extent that all the bodies that provide money advice , including for example the Citizens ' Advice Bureau , which we also fund , are overwhelmed by the numbers of people coming to them . |
| 26 | The reader 's spirits are lifted by the photos of the two artists at work by Cartier-Bresson , Brassai , Osier and others , and by the reproductions of the original notes and cards . |
| 27 | Moreover , she goes on , these problems are accentuated by the complexities of modern surgery and the large number of high-risk patients being admitted for hitherto inoperable conditions , particularly the very young , the elderly debilitated patient , diabetic , cancer and transplant patients , the severely injured , the burned and those undergoing surgery . |
| 28 | Children are also taken into care when they are committed by the courts under the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act . |
| 29 | Children who are committed by the courts to the care of the local authority can not , of course , be taken home by their parents whenever they wish . |
| 30 | The first nine years of Childebert II 's reign are dominated by the problems of the young king 's survival , sometimes with the help of Guntram , sometimes with the help of Chilperic , and always with the involvement of his aristocracy . |