Example sentences of "is [adv] [verb] by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact on MB Group 's balance sheet of acquiring sizeable goodwill in both ABS and Caradon is mostly offset by the issue of $150m US preferred stock and a handy £80m revaluation of its CMB stake to leave pro forma gearing at 24 per cent . |
| 2 | The change is strikingly illustrated by the number of surviving political bonds . |
| 3 | You may be one of those people who is easily swayed by a superficially attractive candidate with a strong personality , or you may be someone who is most influenced by the person you last spoke to . |
| 4 | But the decision is rather undermined by the Court 's acceptance that the order in question ought not to have been made because , in making it , the judge had ignored the rule that coercive interim relief is not available against Ministers of the Crown . |
| 5 | This problem with the language of antiracism is acutely expressed by the lack of clarity that surrounds the term ‘ antiracism ’ itself . |
| 6 | Cessation of subduction is eventually followed by a halt to volcanic activity on the overriding plate . |
| 7 | He is eventually overcome by a kind of fatigue which numbs his senses so that poverty is no longer all-pervasive . |
| 8 | VAT is a form of turn-over or sales tax , which is passed along the production chain and is eventually borne by the consumer . |
| 9 | It is rarely retained by the organisation beyond its useful life . |
| 10 | POUNDED : Even a Range Rover is badly damaged by the sea |
| 11 | The user is verbally instructed by the program to carry out various operations on the terminal , and user response is compared with the programmed correct answer . |
| 12 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 13 | If the mortgage is additionally secured by the assignment of a life policy , then the future of that policy must be sorted out . |
| 14 | To begin with , the view that the vegetarian market 's potential for expansion is ever upward is vigorously contested by the Meat and Livestock Commission . |
| 15 | It must be like an Ord 14 affidavit in the sense that it has to be sworn by the plaintiff or someone authorised to do so ( eg his solicitor or legal executive ) and if it is sworn by someone other than the plaintiff , the affidavit has to state specifically that the deponent is duly authorised by the plaintiff to make the affidavit on his behalf . |
| 16 | The next day , the Speaker leads the Commons back to the Bar of the House of Lords where his election is duly confirmed by the Lord Chancellor on behalf of the monarch and the Speaker then claims from the monarch all the ancient privileges of the House of Commons . |
| 17 | But , however suggestive it may be , the fact that a given phenomenon is successfully predicted by a theory does not prove the theory to be correct . |
| 18 | The fate of any bill , whether initiated by the President or by a member , is effectively decided by the committee to which it is allocated on its introduction to Congress . |
| 19 | ( Liliaceae ) in the Malay Peninsula , while , on Fanning Island in the central Pacific , Pandanus tectorius is effectively dispersed by a land crab , Cardisoma carnifex , which moves fruits and discards the seeds . |
| 20 | A note issuance facility ( NIF ) , first introduced in 1981 , is a medium-term commitment between a borrowing corporate and a bank , whereby the corporate can issue commercial paper ( the ‘ note ’ ) in its own name but the issue is effectively underwritten by the bank . |
| 21 | The crab is effectively castrated by the parasite . |
| 22 | The work for the Geological Survey of Northern Ireland , which is wholly commissioned by the Department of Economic Development , is carried out from Belfast . |
| 23 | From these examples it is clear that the acquisition of fundamental human characteristics does not occur instinctively ; indeed , such behaviour is predominantly shaped by an individual 's immediate social environment . |
| 24 | But your ability to sympathise with him is powerfully lessened by the fact that this hero is also an immature prig and lying snob , whose principal objection to Helena is her social inferiority . |
| 25 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 26 | The murky and seedy , small-time underworld of pre-war Brighton is brilliantly evoked by the Master in this most gripping of his ‘ entertainments ’ . |
| 27 | The long and complex story is brilliantly told by a relay team of scholars assembled by the Antique Collectors ' Club for this handsomely produced and prodigally illustrated book . |
| 28 | This is necessarily caused by the fact that the intrinsic differences between the services provided in different organizations reflect themselves in the respective budgets . |
| 29 | Arguably , though , the degree of coverage which can be sensibly contained in a book of manageable size is necessarily limited by the level of detail presented . |
| 30 | We 're resistant to it not for any dogmatic reason but we do n't feel that local democracy is necessarily improved by the County Council d d ducking it 's decision . |