Example sentences of "are [verb] by the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The composition listens for the listener … [ both ] are kneaded by the same mode of production … [ creating ] a pre-established harmony … between production and consumption …
2 Ideas of identity and insider integrity in the late 1980s are sustained by the same symbols of status and denigration which have existed since at least the mid-1950s .
3 Moreover , evidence from recent research by Hammersley and Scarth suggests that patterns of whole-class teacher-pupil talk do not differ significantly between courses that are assessed by terminal examinations , ones that are continuously assessed , and ones that are not assessed at all — even when these differently assessed courses are taught by the same teacher and within the same subject .
4 At this stage , the infant can not cope with the contradiction implied by the fact that two opposing feelings are aroused by the same object .
5 Because the glial growth factors and specific activators of the p185 erbB2 receptor are encoded by the same gene , we suggest that the formation of tumours derived from Schwann cells , and perhaps from other glial sources , is regulated by the supply of glial growth factors and by the activity of the p185 erbB2 receptor tyrosine kinase .
6 And these roles are are occupied by the same people every year ?
7 It is the ‘ all'-inclusive macro-redistributive studies that capture most interest in general , but these are the studies that are beset by the most problems at all levels .
8 Thus , the adjectives are prerecorded by the same speaker , at a rate of one every three seconds , and played back to subjects .
9 Since the models under consideration are made by the same firm ( Fleck and Drucker ) , the politique des auteurs is inescapable .
10 Figures published for this colony between 1948 and 1966 were usually less than 10 , and it seems likely that this site and Glynde are used by the same group of birds .
11 This contrasts with the YTM procedure ( shown in ( 5.10 ) ) , in which all cash flows are discounted by the same yield to maturity .
12 When comparing engine powers , make sure all are measured by the same system or convert one to another ( imp hp × 1.014 = metric hp or ps ; imp hp × 0.746 = kW ; ps × 0.736 = kW ) .
13 ‘ We are convinced by the former Chancellor 's Autumn Statement proposing support for joint ventures between public and private cash .
14 The glorious colours of the Painted Desert are produced by the same sort of red and green " marls " as we Europeans have in our Keuper .
15 There is no correlation at all between the number of types of relatives that are called by the same word and the number of legitimate sexual partners in marriage .
16 The persuasiveness of Berkeley 's argument about heat and pain depends on two things : ( i ) our readiness to distinguish between feeling heat and feeling hot , and ( ii ) our having the idea that if two things are called by the same name it must be because we suppose them to be like one another .
17 In effect , all my mother 's female paternal kin are called by the same term that I apply to my ‘ mother ’ ; and all her male paternal kin are designated ‘ mother 's brother ’ without reference to their generational position .
18 Many fields have a policy that groups of similar modules are assessed by the same weighting of examination to coursework .
19 The debt to Italy , and particularly to Venice , is apparent in many of the finest buildings in Šibenik , Trogir , Split and Dubrovnik , and one does not need the constant reminders of their origins which are provided by the many replicas of the winged lion of St Mark 's which adorn them .
20 are banked by the same ancestors :
21 But even when they are judged by the same criteria , the evidence does not support the contention that private institutions perform better ( Goodsell 1983 , pp. 48–55 ) .
22 Not only are different names used for the same thing , different things are known by the same name .
23 These different people 's mental states are caused by the same body , so on the theory in question should be part of the same self .
24 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 .
25 The rights of the tenant in the High Court are governed by the same Act :
26 Once the fundamental selection rule is breached , the IR and Raman activities of overtones and combinations are governed by the same symmetry selection rules that apply to fundamentals .
27 If two people are struck by the same brainwave , it will belong to the one who lodges a patent application first .
28 Many examination scripts are guided by the same philosophy .
29 Section 268(1) provides that associated operations means any two or more operations of any kind , being : ( 1 ) operations which affect the same property , or one of which affects some property and the other or others of which affect property which represents , whether directly or indirectly , that property , or income arising from that property , or any property representing accumulations of any such income ; or ( 2 ) any two operations of which one is effected with reference to the other , or with a view to enabling the other to be effected , or facilitating it being effected , and any further operations having a like relation to any of those two , and so on whether those operations are effected by the same person or different persons , and whether or not they are simultaneous .
30 Double labelling studies will be required to show definitely that tumour necrosis factor mRNA and RFD9 antigen are expressed by the same cells .
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