Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] by [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But uncertainties are smoothed over by this idealization of a historically and socially specific , juridical concept of power ( Hussain 1981 ) . |
| 2 | Once there , they are broken up by ultraviolet radiation , releasing chlorine atoms which destroy ozone , CFCs are also an important greenhouse gas ( see above ) . |
| 3 | So nothing at Barnsley House is too grand … and the broader vistas are broken up by judicious planting of trees and shrubs.As for the flower borders … they owe more to the Victorian cottage than to the stately home : |
| 4 | Today most of these assemblages are broken up by human activity but , for example , on the great plains of Serengeti in East Africa the relationships between seasonal vegetation , nomadic herbivores , and dependent beasts of prey can still be discerned and studied in detail . |
| 5 | Members sponsored by unions who are turned on by that prospect ? |
| 6 | Expectations are built up by past experience of an author 's books , by a title , by the book 's dust jacket , and by its illustrations . |
| 7 | He fears they could become targets of revenge attacks if Serb planes are shot down by United Nation forces . |
| 8 | The salt has high levels of calcium to buffer the water and additional quantities of the elements that are used up by marine life . |
| 9 | It must be the case that the norms of these variable states are agreed on by internal consensus in the communities concerned . |
| 10 | Finstat 's figures are dragged down by that spread , as a market index is not . |
| 11 | Mr Murphy 's findings are borne out by new evidence of a decline in the use of legal aid . |
| 12 | We and our EC partners have repeatedly made it clear that we will not recognise changes in Yugoslavia 's internal borders unless they are brought about by peaceful negotiation . |
| 13 | Ida McAninly , of St Albans Street , Tow Law , says it 's years since she stood on Witton Park Station , but the memories are brought back by this photograph . |
| 14 | The most extensive tracts are taken up by five dairy farms . |
| 15 | Mr Fenney also has been ordered to comply with a landscaping scheme ; close the centre by 9pm every evening ; and make sure that his floodlights are switched off by that time . |
| 16 | Learned behaviour in any particular society includes those ideas , techniques and habits which are passed on by one generation to another — in a sense , a social heritage — and which are virtually a set of solutions to problems that , in the course of time , others have met and solved before . |
| 17 | I appreciate that scientists may believe our characteristics and tendencies are passed on by genetic inheritance ; I accept that Jung favoured the concept of an ancestral ‘ memory bank ’ to which we are all capable of tuning in . |
| 18 | Many creatures , even large herbaceous plants and octopuses ( above ) , are held up by hydrostatic pressure . |