Example sentences of "is [vb pp] [adv] by the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This equivalence is emphasized further by the women 's own tendency to compare their reactions to housework with their experience of working outside the home . |
| 2 | Under simple reproduction all surplus-value is consumed unproductively by the capitalists . |
| 3 | Alcohol is broken down by the chemicals called enzymes in the liver through which blood circulates once every four minutes . |
| 4 | The stage is tilted and is propped up by the coffins of Inquisition victims . |
| 5 | The media education movement in South East Asia , WACC 's most active media education programme , is sustained largely by the efforts of women . |
| 6 | Its lemon fragrance is given off by the leaves without the need to rub them , unlike lemon balm and , even when dried , continue to be pungently scented for years , so that they constitute an excellent ingredient for potpourris . |
| 7 | Thus , despite the formalization of a system of state subsidy with the foundation of the University Grants Committee , any fears that university autonomy might be lessened were considerably allayed by the known attitude of the President of the Board of Education , H. A. L. Fisher , enshrined in his dictum : " The state is , in my opinion , not competent to direct the work of education and disinterested research which is carried on by the universities . " |
| 8 | It is important that planning is carried out by the managers involved in the activities of a business so that they can relate to the plan and feel that the plan is their plan . |
| 9 | Investigation in these areas is carried out by the police . |
| 10 | Outside the governmental research activities major work is carried out by the universities , through departments of social administration and social policy , sociology , applied social science , social medicine and so on . |
| 11 | The incorrectly fitted coping is sorted out by the skaters allowing full skate action to commence but not for long . |
| 12 | Dicey felt that ‘ a real limit to the exercise of sovereignty is imposed not by the laws of man but by the nature of things ’ . |
| 13 | Much of the difference between costs and revenues is made up by the losses of owners . |
| 14 | Indeed , the loss of the parenting role is often something that is noticed only by the parents themselves . |
| 15 | The bad news is revealed partly by the results for the first half year and partly by the company 's prediction that its borrowings will only be down to half shareholders ' funds even at the end-of-year low point after the Christmas rush . |
| 16 | There is a strong thriller element to the novel , particularly in the last part , in which Piero is tracked down by the agents of what is portrayed as something close to a police or military state in the underground corridors of the prison-like block of flats where Charles lives and the fugitive has been hiding . |
| 17 | The soul of a true Hero always finds a better rate of exchange , and is valued highly by the gods . |
| 18 | In some systems of law the disability of persons under full age is helped out by the powers of the parent or guardian , who can represent the child , and , by acting on his behalf or giving concurrence to his acts , can make dispositions of his property and contracts binding on him . |
| 19 | I believe the problem is worse in Craven Arms that is shown up by the figures , |
| 20 | Creole is used variably by the parents ' generation , but not usually when persons from outside are present . |
| 21 | Much of the significance of ancient sites comes from their use for ritual purposes , and this is borne out by the survivals of ancient traditions . |
| 22 | The lack of women at the top is borne out by the findings of the latest Arthur Andersen Corporate Register , published by Hemmington Scott . |
| 23 | The slow progress of the campaign to put women into top executive positions is borne out by the results of an Economist survey carried out while compiling the 1993 Crawford 's Directory of City Connections . |
| 24 | The procedure under section 7(5) , in my opinion , is a procedure sui generis , and that is demonstrated clearly by the facts of this case , the justices having already committed Mr. Bell to the Liverpool Crown Court . |
| 25 | In a big theatre performance will never be perfect unless the beat is understood more by the eyes than the ears , because sometimes the chorus is almost wholly in the wings , and almost always divided between two sides . |
| 26 | To the extent that a scientific speciality or discipline is bound together by the rules of an existing ‘ paradigm ’ defining the rules for ‘ puzzle-solving ’ with an existing ‘ normal science ’ , it has been argued that major scientific change often comes from outside the existing specialist group — not untypically through the ‘ migration ’ into the group of innovative outsiders . |
| 27 | So the principal is supported both by the members and by the public . |
| 28 | The South East Regional Research Laboratory ( SERRL ) is run jointly by the Departments of Geography at Birkbeck College and the LSE . |
| 29 | Food prepared in the kitchen is eaten only by the inmates . |
| 30 | Mussels , for instance , do not need to go to look for food , as most animals do ; the organic debris they feed upon is wafted in by the tides ( or the river estuaries ) . |