Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 2 | Savings due to reduced admissions are dismissed by administrators because the saved places are readily used up from endless waiting lists . |
| 3 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 4 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |
| 5 | Not all lectures are given by lecturers , or sermons by preachers . |
| 6 | To synthesise such band-pass response , notice that if an inductance of the prototype low-pass filter with unit cut-off pulsatance was then its reactance must become where Thus it is clear that an inductance of the low-pass prototype must be replaced by a series combination of an inductance and capacitance , the values of which are given by equations ( 12.45 ) and ( 12.46 ) . |
| 7 | In a similar way , the reactance of a capacitance of the prototype low-pass filter must be replaced by which is of the form where Apparently , to synthesise the band-pass response , any capacitance of the prototype must be replaced by capacitance in parallel with inductance , the values of which are given by equations ( 12.47 ) and ( 12.48 ) . |
| 8 | Talks are given by members of staff , often illustrated or using live subjects . |
| 9 | The covector components of local four-vectors are given by expressions similar to eqn ( 5.5 ) , e.g. for momentum : The invariant length can therefore be rewritten as . |
| 10 | By experimental manipulation of tail length in widdow birds of the African genus Euplectes , Andersson has been able to alter both the extent to which males are favoured by females and their mating success ( Andersson , 1982 ) . |
| 11 | The fenoderee possess phenomenal strength and are favoured by farmers for helping with heavy agricultural tasks , in particular they are famous for their skill and thoroughness in harvesting crops , and have been known to thresh a barnful of corn in one night . |
| 12 | Orchards and small fruits , mainly raspberries , are favoured by growers in the Clyde valley near Lanark , near Dundee , along the coast of the Firth of Tay , and in the Vale of Strathmore . |
| 13 | In Britain there has for many years been a sub-proletariat , a sub-class of the working class who are far worse off than the main body , consisting of sweat-shop workers and homeworkers , people who are treated by employers as though they have no rights at all . |
| 14 | ‘ What will give companies the competitive edge is the quality of the way their people treat customers and that is linked to the way they are treated by managers . |
| 15 | Marketing activities are conducted mainly across the external boundaries of the organizational system , and they are undertaken by managers of all kinds , not only by marketing specialists . |
| 16 | The complaints must be made to the police themselves in the first instance and all subsequent investigations are undertaken by police officers . |
| 17 | Many children are fascinated by maps . |
| 18 | The Japanese are fascinated by foreigners making a spectacle of themselves in this way — the natural heirs to the dying tradition of performing street monkeys . |
| 19 | If you are fascinated by celebrities , try Margaret Forwood 's The Real Benny Hill ( Robson , £15.95 ) and Norman Wisdom 's Do n't Laugh At Me ( Century , £14.99 ) . |
| 20 | Children are fascinated by words they think are ‘ naughty ’ . |
| 21 | Most optical resists are developed by mixtures of solvents which wash away the more soluble material left after exposure . |
| 22 | All three firms are crushed by debts built up under the communists . |
| 23 | Every summer and autumn horses are plagued by bot-flies . |
| 24 | Yet some women continue to feel unwell or are plagued by discomforts such as varicose veins , backache , bleeding gums or faintness . |
| 25 | Mr Smith — a pessimist — starts to worry in case it rains , the car breaks down , they are plagued by insects or one of the children gets lost . |
| 26 | Great northern divers , having spent the winter singly in many of the Shetland voes , gather in parties and are joined by birds from further south . |
| 27 | Each data point in Figs 4 to 9 represent the mean of two experiments and the results from the ascending and descending colon in corresponding patients are joined by lines in Figs 4 to 6 . |
| 28 | Sometimes we are joined by mums who we encourage to stay and see what we get up to , and some of the fathers have helped out as well . |
| 29 | Sometimes they are joined by Elves who have lost their homes and families to the Dark Elves and now lust for vengeance with the cold fury that only Elves can feel . |
| 30 | The travellers are joined by colleagues from Devon and Warwickshire . |