Example sentences of "is [verb] [adv] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In practice women and men are involved in different ways in giving and receiving support , but much of this is explained not by a cultural definition of what counts as women 's business or men 's business , but by three other factors . |
| 2 | But in our present context , it raises the question as to whether the call of the Killer whaler is recognized instinctively by a new-born seal or porpoise or whether it is learnt during adolescence , while in the company of parents . |
| 3 | The call is uttered only by the male cuckoo , who arrives slightly before the female , and begins to call as soon as he reaches the breeding grounds . |
| 4 | Waste material in the ubiquitous black plastic bags brews up and is broken down by a common bacterium , Clostridium botulinum , which produces a very potent toxin . |
| 5 | Soon the great awards of knighthoods give way to the decorations reserved for the civil and military services , and the shuffle of office workers is broken only by the occasional clink of a cavalryman 's spur . |
| 6 | The ensuing silence is broken only by the quick rustle of Anya surrepitiously scratching her knee through a layer of denim . |
| 7 | Here is spring and summertime the quiet is broken only by the soothing sound of wood pigeons , which somehow creates an aura of timelessness . |
| 8 | This programme is taught jointly by the Christian Ethics and Practical Theology Department , with the Hebrew and Old Testament , and New Testament Departments , and comprises a study of Biblical and Theological Ethics . |
| 9 | As we have already explained , such a change in angle of attack is formed naturally by the conical sailform on a delta , but it needs to be held in place on sharply tapered types . |
| 10 | The silence is punctuated only by the light banter among the four ops room members and radio babble with the captain on the bridge . |
| 11 | By permutations of these various incidents the number of possible classes is limited only by the total number of shares . |
| 12 | Since the Crown Court is a superior court , its power to punish is limited only by the maximum penalty set for the offence by an Act of Parliament . |
| 13 | But , in pursuit of joint oversight responsibilities for these facilities in Wales , did the Secretary of State for Wales plead with that Department on the ground of regional policy alone as is pointed out by the Hon. Member for Vale of Glamorgan ( Sir R. Gower ) , who is sadly absent today , in his early day motion that it makes no sense to move hi-tech jobs in Government research and development from an area such as south Wales to an overheated area in the south-east of England ? |
| 14 | Phospho-HPr ( P-HPr ) in the closed conformation is stabilized both by the positive dipole moment of helix A and by the positive charge of Arg17 . |
| 15 | The female is attracted there by a colourful advertisement display given on the nest itself . |
| 16 | In the Federal Republic , the ‘ chancellor-democracy ’ has at its disposal a continually growing government and management expertise which outlasts all parliaments : the twenty year long permanence of this government constellation is modified only by the federal structure . |
| 17 | The conversion of methanol and carbon monoxide into acetic acid is catalysed homogeneously by a soluble rhodium compound . |
| 18 | The line is wrenched away by the locked jaw of the sea dog below . |
| 19 | This theme is carried further by the soft and rounded lines of the whole cabin — characterised by the blending together of the dash and door panels . |
| 20 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 21 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 22 | If you claim for loss of or damage to the glass in your cars windscreen or windows , or to the bodywork scratched by the broken glass , you will only have to pay the first £40 of the cost if the replacement is carried out by a General Accident approved windscreen specialist . |
| 23 | Transcription of vaccinia virus is carried out by a multimeric RNA polymerase composed of two large and many small subunits , all of which seem to be virus encoded ( reviewed in ( 1 ) ) . |
| 24 | The presence in the ASFV genome of genes encoding proteins similar to the two largest RNA polymerase subunits of poxviruses and eukaryotic organisms makes it very likely that ASFV transcription is carried out by a multimeric , virus-encoded , RNA polymerase . |
| 25 | The capacity of ASFV to encode such proteins suggests that ASFV transcription is carried out by a multimeric enzyme whose subunits are encoded in the viral genome . |
| 26 | It is recommended that the installation is carried out by a qualified tradesman , or , at least , is checked by one . |
| 27 | As each project is carried out by a different team/official , there has often been a lack of standard advice to guide the consultation exercise . |
| 28 | Search costs are reasonable , provided the search is carried out by a trained librarian using appropriate professional skills in search strategy formulation . |
| 29 | Some filter-feeders like the scallops do manage to travel : they clap their valves together convulsively and so make curving leaps , but by and large adult bivalves live rather static lives and the spreading of the species into distant parts of the sea bed is carried out by the young . |
| 30 | A transformation is carried out by the measuring instrument : it can be viewed as a device for converting properties that unaided human intuition can not deal with into ones that it can . |