Example sentences of "it [is] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's presented by the controversial director of the Death Wish films , Michael Winner … |
| 2 | It 's sold by the linear metre from rolls 2 or 4m ( 6 ‘ ft ‘ 6in or 13 ‘ ft ‘ ) wide ; the larger width enables seam-free floors to be laid in most medium-sized rooms . |
| 3 | It 's promoted by the natural-born hucksters within Apple because it has all the earmarks of something trendy and fashionable . |
| 4 | Today it is reached by the main road , up the valley of the Petite Nive , through Arnéguy , which is the French frontier post , to the first Spanish village of Valcarlos and then Roncesvalles or , in its more familiar French form , Roncevaux . |
| 5 | Once it is determined that a particular exclusion clause is not invalidated under fiduciary law , it is then necessary to consider whether it is affected by the common law and statutory restrictions on exclusion clauses generally . |
| 6 | But even if it is created by the new Warhol , will such explicit portraiture sell ? |
| 7 | A host state may restrict the activities of a financial institution as far as it is justified by the general good . |
| 8 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 9 | ‘ It is recognised by the Prime Minister that the recovery will initially be slow and patchy … in time , it should give rise to sustainable economic growth and the creation of new jobs . ’ |
| 10 | As an archive it is recognised by the Public Records Act 1958 . |
| 11 | Although the EC has signed association agreements with these countries , it is prevented by the political need to protect its own industries from allowing imports of these commodities on the scale that would be possible . |
| 12 | ‘ It is menaced by the evil CuRoi and by the Robemaker . ’ |
| 13 | The theory is less applicable to land animals , but it is supported by the paler back of a sloth that lives upside-down . |
| 14 | Marcuse takes up the theme of domination through the ideological form of technological reason and shows how it is legitimized by the widespread consumption enabled by increased production . |
| 15 | JUNE SEES the end of the old 10p piece as legal currency as it is replaced by the new smaller version . |
| 16 | Farther north it is replaced by the European wild cat , which ranges from Portugal and Britain in the west to Russia in the east . |
| 17 | When the main branch ( c ) reaches the next plant it is replaced by the secondary branch ( b ) and the reserve shoot ( a ) will become the next secondary branch . |
| 18 | It is opposed by the British Association of Social workers on the grounds that it is ageist and does not adequately safeguard the rights of clients ( Marshall , 1988 , p. 20 ) . |
| 19 | In all cases enthalpy and entropy compensate each other , resulting in similar net stabilities with ΔG close to zero at 300 K. The coil-helix transition is an intramolecular process ; on the one hand it is opposed by the unfavourable free energy change in ordering the nucleotide backbone ( largely entropic ) , which is favourably balanced by the free energy of base stacking interactions ( mainly enthalpic ) . |
| 20 | Thus , if A is persymmetric , it is characterised by the typical element unc and hence has , in general , 2n — 1 independent elements . |
| 21 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 22 | It is run by the energetic and ebullient Dottoressa Rosa Maria Letts , and holds a wide range of exhibitions , including the recent , highly successful ‘ Pompeii ’ . |
| 23 | It is run by the National Association of Funeral Directors but has no set packages . |
| 24 | This does not replicate the monolithic vision of the Early Church but it is characterized by the same overall patterns . |
| 25 | It is followed by the anal stage , made popular by reference to ‘ potty-training ’ . |
| 26 | This is because an anticipatory repudiation terminates a contract only if it is accepted by the innocent party , Fercometal S.a.r.l. v. Mediterra-nean Shipping Co. ( 1988 H.L. ) . |
| 27 | It is accepted by the medical experts on either side that a t that at twenty four , the plaintiff 's expectation life is substantially unaffected by the accident . |
| 28 | This may be given by reference to time elapsing after the date of issue of the document , and it is quite possible for the time-limit to be passed before the document can be served or even before it is received by the Central Authority . |
| 29 | It is crossed by the Milky Way , and contains many glorious binocular fields . |
| 30 | It is felt by the same people who experience the pain of all the other inequalities in our unequal society . |