Example sentences of "[pers pn] are [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether you are fascinated by the unusual , or enchanted by sheer beauty , there is something for everyone here . |
| 2 | A hundred and twenty percent you are multiplying by the decimal equivalent which is one point two . |
| 3 | In August it was remarked in the Commons that , ‘ Wherever you go now in every constituency you are met by the aged people and their organizations . ’ |
| 4 | You are surrounded by the latest edition of the N C V O News , so you know that this is the last occasion . |
| 5 | Here you are surrounded by the natural attractions of the region and have your own fully-equipped home from home . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ We are disturbed by the recent reports showing the prevalence of solvent abuse in Darlington . |
| 7 | We reach the Welsh border in five hours , but soon lose our way and travel thirty miles in the wrong direction , during which we are stopped by the Welsh police . |
| 8 | Yet , when we finally gain the object of our desire , we are baffled by the constant emptiness we still feel . |
| 9 | We are fascinated by the wary our ‘ smart weapons ’ are mobilised to ‘ knock out ’ and ‘ take apart ’ , to ‘ neutralise ’ and ‘ cleanse ’ , enemy targets in what is called the ‘ theatre ’ of Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 10 | It would hence require 1000 times as much food and would excrete 1000 times as much waste products , as we are reminded by the distinguished early twentieth-century biologist J.B.S. Haldane in his famous work On Being the Right Size . |
| 11 | Unable to stop paddling for fear of capsizing , Tony and I can not put on our anoraks and within a few minutes we are soaked by the freezing combination of sea and rain . |
| 12 | ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash . |
| 13 | This is a world where , in Walt 's own words , ‘ If you can dream it , you can do it , ’ and where , as we are told by the audio-animatronic family which takes us through history in the Carousel Of Progress pavilion , ‘ These are the best days of your life . ’ |
| 14 | They are brutalised by the hard and constant struggle to survive . |
| 15 | In some yellow meadow ant colonies there are two sizes or worker : the smaller ones specialise in larval care and stay in the nest , where they are fed by the larger workers , which presumably do the foraging . |
| 16 | They are made by the official team representative and take the form of a written deposition to the Chief Referee of the day . |
| 17 | They are caused by the giant plates which carry the continents bumping and grinding into each other as they float around the Earth 's molten centre . |
| 18 | In the second place , even those people who have heard of the doctrine , and who accept it , do not , in far the greater number of cases , base their judgements that two states belong to the same self on a previous conviction that they are caused by the same body . |
| 19 | If they are different parts of speech , they are distinguished by the italic part-of-speech label that follows the pronunciation in parentheses , or , if no pronunciation is given , the headword itself . |
| 20 | Freewheeling currents in the bipolar drive decay more rapidly than in the unipolar drive , because they are opposed by the d.c. supply voltage . |
| 21 | They oblige all , including non-Catholics , because they proceed from right reason , and not because they are taught by the Catholic Church . |
| 22 | The figures in the first three years of the Long-Term Costing are detailed and relatively firm because they are fixed by the Public Expenditure Survey Committee each year — hence they are referred to in Whitehall jargon as the PESC years . |
| 23 | Rather like small urban AONBs except that they are designated by the local planning authority as part of their planning function . |
| 24 | Such individuals may wait many weeks on remand in a prison hospital wing , sometimes even in a cell in a local police station , before they are assessed by the local service . |
| 25 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 26 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 27 | ( Hitherto , information about these and other studies has not been published , but they are covered by the regular workshops held by the IMS to promote the approach . ) |
| 28 | Unlike BBC employees or freelance technicians , they are covered by the Official Secrets Act — which imposes prison sentences for unofficial leaks . |
| 29 | They are covered by the Fair Trading Act 1973 ( FTA ) , under which mergers involving the takeover of assets worth ( currently ) £30m or more may be referred to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( MMC ) . |
| 30 | The project will examine how , if at all , they are assisted by the international community , and suggest ways in which such episodes may be better handled . |