Example sentences of "is [verb] by a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the scene , Mo 's dress is ripped by a drunken admirer . |
| 2 | In contrast Paul Mason is fascinated by a quasi-scientific comparison of mathematics and the structures of life . |
| 3 | ( 198 ) above , for example , is uttered by a young lady who is recounting to her horrified mother the experience she has just had of being thrown into prison and badly treated after being arrested in a bar brawl . |
| 4 | From Wassen the " old Gotthard road " crosses and re-crosses th valley before reaching ( in 5km , 3 miles ) Goschenen in its impressive situation where the Reuss river is joined by a main tributary just a it has emerged from the Schollenen gorge . |
| 5 | Trotting confidently out of his burrow into a jungly , prehistoric world , he is rescued by bats from slimy , groping creatures , only to fall into cavernous waters and swim out to sea , from where he is plucked by a vulture-like bird whose hungry chicks he has ‘ fun ’ avoiding before tumbling safely home . |
| 6 | The performance of the housewife role in adulthood is prefaced by a long period of apprenticeship . |
| 7 | Each section is prefaced by a short essay on the care of objects by an expert in the field and there are additional entries on security and insurance , lighting , display and transport and packing . |
| 8 | Each Discussion Paper is prefaced by a non-technical summary which communicates its essential findings to those who are not specialists in the field . |
| 9 | Second , an approach is developed by a social group . |
| 10 | The inadequacy of resources is highlighted by a recurrent tendency for expenditure to run ahead of revenue . |
| 11 | The problem for women is highlighted by a thirty-year-old trainee RSPCA inspector , dismissed because she wept when dogs were put to death . |
| 12 | The film , set on the beaches , in the bars and discos and in the shabby tourist rooms of downtown Acapulco , is distinguished by a central performance from Jackie Burroughs ( also one of the directors ) that is an astonishing tour de force of which it is impossible to speak too highly . |
| 13 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 14 | On the IPE , the EFP is distinguished by a special mnemonic . |
| 15 | However , the specialist team is distinguished by a particular approach , featuring high throughput of cases , and it has to be uncertain at this stage whether this is a consequence of its specialism or of an underlying distinction in the conception of social work that it may represent — what we have called a ‘ deep ’ structure . |
| 16 | Thus a practice is distinguished by a particular mode of production , adapted to its own kind of product . |
| 17 | For example , the area of the primate cortex that receives the direct visual projection from the thalamus is distinguished by a dense band of white matter in layer four . |
| 18 | The jewel is formed by a Lombardic letter M framing on one side the Virgin and on the other the Angel of the Annunciation . |
| 19 | So love is formed by a dark ray 's invasion |
| 20 | The upper surface of the body is formed by a thin sheet that cloaks the internal organs and is appropriately called the mantle . |
| 21 | The escarpment of Wenlock Edge in Shropshire is formed by a massive limestone ( more thinly bedded below ) of mid Silurian age . |
| 22 | In fact , the idea lends itself to fabrication as a single IC- clock distribution is not much of a problem , because of the insensitivity to DC level , and transistor count is low , because each of the switches is formed by a single igfet , rather than , for instance , several mesfets . |
| 23 | The outside surface is formed by a lacy sheet of soldiers , their legs linked together , their huge jaws agape , ready to slice into anything that might interfere with them . |
| 24 | Rummy who will again lead the parade on National Day , is immortalised by a life-size bronze statue after winning the race three times and finishing second twice between 1973 and ‘ 77 . |
| 25 | It is treated by a short course of drugs , the main one used being metronidazole . |
| 26 | The foregoing account confirms the idea implicit in the theoretical scheme which I sketched earlier : namely , that nationalism is an immensely powerful force , first , because it is sustained by a deep-rooted sense of belonging to a territorial and cultural community , and secondly , because this sense of belonging has become firmly attached to the nation state in a process of political development which is now several centuries old , and has taken on the character of a more or less sacrosanct and unalterable principle of political organization . |
| 27 | The complaint is examined by a Chief Inspector in accordance with the Police ( Complaints ) informal Resolution Regulations 1985 . |
| 28 | Each case is heard by a single judge ( very occasionally with a jury ) . |
| 29 | This fear of being intellectually inadequate ( an unnecessary fear where we , the adults , have so much experience of life to share with the children in our care ) is eased by a subconscious desire to help the less able . |
| 30 | There is little evidence , however , to correlate serum concentrations after the dose with toxicity , and indeed experimental nephrotoxicity caused by gentamicin is more severe when the total daily dose is divided than when it is given by a single bolus , when concentrations after the dose are higher . |