Example sentences of "they [am/are] [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are brutalised by the hard and constant struggle to survive . |
| 2 | They are raised by a separate arm of government — Customs and Excise . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They are made by the official team representative and take the form of a written deposition to the Chief Referee of the day . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are distinguished by a sensitive use of imagery and a firm construction . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Wherever they go they are escorted by a vast armada of local dignitaries , including the Lord Lieutenant , the Mayor or Mayoress , complete with the chains of office , the Chief Constable of Police and every last member of the town council . |
| 10 | Freewheeling currents in the bipolar drive decay more rapidly than in the unipolar drive , because they are opposed by the d.c. supply voltage . |
| 11 | They are led by an experienced conservationist who explains the project and the safe use of tools . |
| 12 | They oblige all , including non-Catholics , because they proceed from right reason , and not because they are taught by the Catholic Church . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Rather like small urban AONBs except that they are designated by the local planning authority as part of their planning function . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They are separated by a thin layer of a very complex organic material . |
| 17 | The country 's farm-workers and labourers make up 17% of the population , yet they are ignored by the mass media . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Microscopically they are characterised by a shallow buccal capsule with three teeth . |
| 20 | It is relatively unimportant what these conditions are called as long as they are characterised by a sufficient number of symptoms of depression to be definable as cases . |
| 21 | ( 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 . ) |
| 22 | Unlike BBC employees or freelance technicians , they are covered by the Official Secrets Act — which imposes prison sentences for unofficial leaks . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They are spurred by a marked sense of vocation : they are of the generation which grew up after the war when pollution came to be popularly identified as a serious problem needing urgent attention . |
| 26 | The people over whom governments have authority , the kind of considerations which their instructions pre-empt and the areas of activities over which they have authority are all , to the extent that they are determined by the normal justification thesis , less extensive than the claims made by governments and by the law . |
| 27 | There are some Local Authorities , in the main they are run by the Labour Party |
| 28 | They are able to do this because they are formed by a special type of cell division , during which the 46 chromosomes in the body cells of the father and the mother assort into 23 pairs , following which the two members of each pair segregate , so that the resulting germ cells receive only 23 chromosomes . |
| 29 | They have , moreover , received significant support from an independent and experienced source in that they are supported by the Official Solicitor 's counsel Mr. Barda . |
| 30 | Developing an information set from properly-defined critical success factors will ensure that it includes all the required key performance indicators and that they are supported by the full range of internal and external , financial and non-financial information that is necessary . |