Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These are faults — which is where John McEnroe comes in — that are smoothed out by a second distillation . |
| 2 | Sometimes the salespeople carry out merchandising activities like building up shelf displays , providing window stickers and in-store advertising , although sometimes these duties are carried out by a separate merchandiser or team of merchandisers , particularly when some form of demonstration or product promotion is required . |
| 3 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 4 | In The Lost Ship , for instance , a couple of merchant navy apprentices , overboard by accident from a tanker , are picked up by a sinister couple planning to snatch gold from a wreck on a Caribbean island , and in Horseshoe Reef a similar young couple is rescued from shipwreck by a strange , isolated family with criminal intentions . |
| 5 | Many of these buyers are turned off by the sleek lines and road-sensitive ride of classy European marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz . |
| 6 | These caps are pushed out by the permanent molars usually with little trouble but sometimes they can become lodged and require some outside assistance . |
| 7 | Palestinian camps are wiped out by the Jordanian army . |
| 8 | Above left : Large silk bows adorned with trailing gold stars are watched over by a golden cherub and help to liven up the staircase |
| 9 | Finer particles are filtered out by the mechanical filtering action inside the box — usually using foam or brushes ( or both ) . |
| 10 | So females are retained in these groups , but males are driven out by the dominant male , whom Freud called the primal father . |
| 11 | In many cases public meetings are set up by the local Councillor , Community Council or local groups , and arrangements are therefore the responsibility of the organiser . |
| 12 | Some are pulled in by the package-holiday attractions of Ayia Marina , the island 's miniature experiment in Costa Bravado . |
| 13 | In common with many other low-pay industries the minimum standards of pay and conditions are laid down by an industrial council , the Agricultural Wages Board . |
| 14 | But for now the transepts and choir are undergoing restoration and are blocked off by a wooden screen . |
| 15 | These are followed up by a short course on computer simulation in Physics for all students in third year . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , it is not always these States which exert the most influence at ICAO divisional meetings where the policies are worked out by the national delegates that attend . |
| 17 | Sometimes working-class residents will live on peripheral council housing estates while older ‘ period ’ dwellings are taken over by the middle class . |
| 18 | These are blotted out by the dominant images of Christian England and the establishment and power of the greatest empire the world has ever seen . |
| 19 | It is possible for a series of nick points to migrate up a stream and for the whole series to coalesce when they are held up by a resistant bed . |
| 20 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 21 | Two of the government 's most important objectives are to reduce the proportion of the nation 's wealth consumed by the public sector and to reduce the extent to which individuals are held back by the public sector … |
| 22 | The enthusiasm sometimes generated by a teachers ' centre whose advisory courses are backed up by a practical service can be considerable , and most valuable . |
| 23 | Her views are backed up by a 1989 Home Office report on fear of crime , chaired by Michael Grade . |
| 24 | By pointing and clicking on various analysis tools , which are backed up by an on-line help system , users can generate a number of graphs , box plots , and contour plots to help isolate particular factors , test theories and build models . |
| 25 | The Heron proposals , which are backed up by an independent report by Price Waterhouse , provide bankers will the latest revaluations of Heron 's portfolio . |
| 26 | The chairman of the TEC , David Houghton , and his team are backed up by an able chief executive — Roy Knott . |