Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Activists are illegally dismissed , strikes are forcibly broken up by the army or police and many unionists have been killed . |
| 2 | By convention , such powers are normally exercised formally by the monarch on the advice of ministers ( the ministers , in practice , take the decisions ) . |
| 3 | Advertising costs and any expenses incurred in hiring premises are normally passed on by the estate agents to the vendor , whether or not the auction results in a sale . |
| 4 | Xenophon 's teachings are best summed up by the following statements : |
| 5 | They are best told apart by the differences in head shape — labiatum has thicker lips and citrinellum has a larger hump resulting in a steeper forehead profile . |
| 6 | Benoit Mandelbrot 's central idea presented here in a revised and expanded version of an essay first published in English five years ago , is that many of Nature 's forms have irregularities so extreme that they are best described not by the one-dimensional curves and two-dimensional surfaces of conventional geometry but as intermediate shapes ( ’ fractals ’ ) whose dimensionality need not be a whole number . |
| 7 | It is of course true that the NHS is under tremendous pressures while places at NCT classes are largely taken up by the motivated . |
| 8 | When an insect moults , the dorsal arms of the tentorium are largely dissolved away by the moulting fluid , the tentorium splits medially , much of the central body is dissolved and the remainder is pulled out as four separate pieces , one from each tentorial pit ( Sharplin , 1965 ) . |
| 9 | The corpse of a zebra , under the camera 's necessarily impassive gaze ( some viewers are queasier ) , is reduced almost to a skeleton as skin and then flesh are progressively stripped away by the processes of nature . |
| 10 | Indeed , the issues are already emphasised even by the existing levels of television definition . |
| 11 | During the next seven years , requests for assistance will undoubtably outstrip the resources of international agencies , and UN officials are already taken aback by the response of the Third World . |
| 12 | These two contrasting events emphasize the central fact that even natural hazards are not defined solely by the characteristics of the event but by the interaction of those events with the human occupation of the threatened area . |
| 13 | Others are not employed directly by the ruling class and work in the liberal arts and service professions . |
| 14 | From this , we conclude that residues 1-193 of c-Jun are not recognised effectively by the DNA-PK even when tethered to DNA . |
| 15 | For example , Cortzee shows that contemporary tales of the ‘ tariff reform millions , are not borne out by the relatively impoverished state of the Tariff Reform League , and he demonstrates that the variety of industries and economic activities which were represented in the TRL defy any attempt to produce a simple definition of its interest base . |
| 16 | Once again , we must remember that the results are not determined only by the experimental vibration frequencies , but by various assumptions made in the course of setting up and solving the problem . |
| 17 | Briefly , this is to consider that the connections and orders of various sets of events are not exhausted either by the categories of causality or of randomness ( or by both together ) . |
| 18 | Somewhat surprising is the fact that the longest hours are not put in by the women with the largest number of children . |
| 19 | The trouble with this way of dealing with the myth is that the myth is so attractive that people are not put off by the objection that it opens the door to scepticism about common meanings . |
| 20 | What if the employers ' job offers are not taken up by the students ? |
| 21 | While economic statistics are more up-to-date and therefore more relevant , they are not used regularly by the three departments because they are not specific enough . |
| 22 | Two sensations — one past , one present — are thus bound together by the continuity of awareness between these two moments , and we recognise that the two components are inter-related and belong to the same class . |
| 23 | Two such quantities q and p are always related physically by the fact that their combined dimensions are those of action ; that is , the product q p can always be assigned a value in units of Planck 's constant k . |
| 24 | Try as they might , those advertisers are always beaten down by the form ; they are forced — even at the one time they need to be candidly personal — into an unwished impersonality . |
| 25 | Contributions are usually made entirely by the company , and can be varied from year to year . |
| 26 | These are usually agreed jointly by the Countryside Commission and local authorities , and it is intended that strict development control should be applied within them . |
| 27 | First , concepts of quality in health care are still determined largely by the professionals , with managers staking out an increasing role . |
| 28 | The actual negotiations are still carded out by the various enterprise unions themselves and the role of the national union federations remains very limited . |
| 29 | Joints and fissures are probably enlarged partly by the abrasive effect of stones scoured into them by the waves and partly by the pressures generated by the waves when they break against the cliffs . |
| 30 | The Americans are also put out by the efforts of Russia 's foreign minister , Andrei Kozyrev , to rescue something from the apparent wreckage of the world 's peace efforts . |