Example sentences of "are [adv] [adv] [vb pp] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many researchers come to the electronic version of the BL catalogue with experience of its printed version , and so are arguably more fitted by experience to know its idiosyncrasies and quirks . |
| 2 | Concepts and rules are most often taught by definition and description , and whilst this can be successful , given a good communication technique , it has the disadvantage of failing to produce generalisation . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , the industrial skills of the area are learned in the very businesses which are most harshly hit by taxation . |
| 4 | Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’ |
| 5 | Ideally , we should build some flexibility into the Library 's financial management systems to cope with changes , but at present we are so tightly constrained by cost factors that we have no room for manoeuvre . |
| 6 | They are then disagreeably surprised when the resentments and even despair which are so often concealed by silence break out in angry and violent rebellion . |
| 7 | ‘ The most blameworthy acts are so often absolved by success that the boundary between what is permitted and what is prohibited , what is just and what is unjust , has nothing fixed about it , but seems susceptible to almost arbitrary change by individuals . ’ |
| 8 | In making the choice , the selection conference in the case of the Labour Party , and the constituency executive in the case of the Conservative Party , are not easily moved by pressure from outside and even the leaders of the parties have found it hard to get close friends and political associates nominated . |
| 9 | It is important to note that , in any given society , mating patterns are not easily manipulated by policy and edicts , but change in response to education , socio-cultural processes and aspects of development . |
| 10 | ON SUNDAY November 22 , the Bath Area Group of the Swanage Railway Project chartered a ‘ Brakevan Tour ’ on the Severn Valley Railway for a return journey from Kidderminster to Bridgnorth taking in some loops and sidings that are not normally traversed by passenger trains . |
| 11 | Fire extinguishers for home use are not generally recommended by fire prevention experts , except as a safeguard it you live a long way from your nearest fire station . |
| 12 | Although the most commonly used traffic-calming measures , road humps , are governed by statute and are subject to clear regulations , other techniques such as chicanes , road narowing , different road surfaces , shared road surfaces , rumble strips and gateways are not properly covered by legislation . |
| 13 | Paradigm shifts are not usually detected by citation studies , because of the anomalous publication of ‘ delayed-action ’ papers ( Lindsey ) , ( Garfield 's ‘ sleepers ) . |
| 14 | Dependent children are not usually covered by superannuation , although you should notify your employer if you are the sole breadwinner . |
| 15 | Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ‘ Investment Business ’ ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ‘ Excluded Activities ’ ) . |
| 16 | In contrast however the mobility of CREB ( lanes 6 and 7 ) and CREM ( lanes 4 and 5 ) are not significantly affected by phosphatase treatment . |
| 17 | Upstate city-dwelling environmentalists are not much welcomed by conservative and strongly Mormon southerners who have mined , logged and ranched the land for decades . |
| 18 | ‘ An American president 's proposals are not always supported by Congress — that does n't mean he has to stamp his foot and leave Capitol Hill , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own . |
| 20 | It should be added that cultural formations are not only conditioned by class position , central though that is ; age , gender , ethnicity and nationality are also important . |
| 21 | But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress . |
| 22 | Planning authorities have the positive function of ensuring that mineral deposits are not unnecessarily sterilised by surface development but are kept available for exploitation . |
| 23 | Thus , in social science much research activity is directed at simply describing how things work , how conversations are organised , how slaughtermen do their work , how managers manage , what police-officers do on the beat , and so on ; activities which are not especially motivated by explanation as the point of inquiry . |
| 24 | Even though they come from low-wage jobs , unemployed people are usually financially hard-hit by job loss . |
| 25 | Next , by relating the plates and line illustrations to the individual designs , you can use the information contained under each heading in this chapter to limit an item 's probable origins ( e.g. hunting carpets are usually only made by workshop groups in Persia , India , or Pakistan ) . |
| 26 | Even magistrates , whose sentencing powers are more closely confined by law , enjoy a considerable degree of discretion within those upper limits . |
| 27 | I might agree in terms of lowland farming where farms are more often controlled by investment groups than by single families , but hill farming has always been , and still is , a hard and often heart-breaking as well as back-breaking job . |
| 28 | Although this means that student groups are more evenly balanced by gender than was the case with earlier generations of students , men still outnumber women in so-called " traditional " male subjects such as maths , engineering and applied science . |
| 29 | Probably more so in fact , for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others . |
| 30 | Our hypothetical typists are still hopelessly outclassed by DNA , even if there is no natural selection . |