Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 2 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 3 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 4 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 5 | And all of these functions are carried on by the ego . |
| 6 | This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives . |
| 7 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 8 | Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted . |
| 9 | Independent inspections are carried out by the B.S.I. who send in experts unannounced to carry out checks . |
| 10 | The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London . |
| 11 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 12 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 13 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 14 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 15 | Stray capacitances to earth from P' 1 and P' 2 are shorted out by the primary of the detector transformer at balance . |
| 16 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 17 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 18 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 19 | The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens . |
| 20 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 21 | The company says the trainer market 's core consumers are turned off by the Clarks name . |
| 22 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 23 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 24 | Any surplus runners are balloted out by the Jockey Club and their owners receive back their entry money . |
| 25 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |
| 26 | A good example is a manufacturer who sells to a reseller and requires the reseller to grant him an indemnity in respect of third party claims for product liability made against the manufacturer arising in relation to the products of the manufacturer that are sold on by the reseller . |
| 27 | The queen spreads them over her body and they are licked off by the workers , who pass them to the rest of the colony by trophallaxis . |
| 28 | Generally , university libraries are seen as the primary repositories for such material , and in many cases , the regulations on access are drawn up by the library authorities , and ratified by the university governing body . |
| 29 | Lasswell ( 1960 , p. 195 ) sums up this scepticism about the rule of law : ‘ The number of statutes which pass the legislature , or the number of decrees which are handed down by the executive , but which change nothing in the permanent politics of society , is a rough index of the role of magic in politics ’ . |
| 30 | Quite often ( but not always ) such cases are called in by the Secretary of State even where the planning authority is minded to grant consent , in order to allow interested groups a chance to air their views ; so it can all take a long time . |