Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The very few times an accurate cross goes in its nothing to do with planning … just the law of averages and that s helped by the fact they normally have more than 2 people heading into the box . |
| 2 | The statement that he overestimated the importance of sex in human psychology is refuted by an examination of his work and opinions . |
| 3 | A trade unionism that is paralysed by an obsession with parliamentary lobbying and television training for general secretaries can scarcely expect to win the wholehearted support even of its own members , let alone women engaged in domestic labour , part-time workers or the unemployed . |
| 4 | The Twit Factor(TF) is calculated by a multiplying a Breeding Quotient ( BQ ) , marked between 1 and 5 , by the Outrage Index ( OI ) , based upon observed behaviour , marked between 1 and 10 , and then dividing the result by the Agreed Mitigator ( AM ) , a mark between 1 and 10 assessed on the basis of redeeming features such as intelligence , professional merit etc . |
| 5 | Radelescu and Stoia ( 1979 ) , for instance , describe a microprocessor-based closed-loop control in which the switching angle is calculated by an algorithm involving the two previous step periods , enabling the rate of change of speed to be taken into account . |
| 6 | During look-up , the number of letters in a word of script is calculated by the x difference of the word divided by the mean letter width figure . |
| 7 | An estimated enrolment figure is calculated by the addition to the UF figure of the U- figure weighted according to previous experience . |
| 8 | The cost or benefit is calculated by the volume of net imports , or exports , times the difference between EC prices and world prices . |
| 9 | The ISE 's Special Committee on Market Development recommended in July 1990 that the Alpha , Beta and Gamma classifications on SEAQ should be replaced with a new measure called Normal Market Size ( NMS ) which is calculated by the stock 's liquidity and trading volume . |
| 10 | On the south side a corresponding basement is hidden by a drawer flap which , when pulled down , reveals the cellar with its groined roof . |
| 11 | The valley below the adventurers is hidden by a layer of thick mist that seems almost to glow . |
| 12 | Eventually they reach the shallow stretches where their parents spawned and they lie there resting , their heads pointing upstream , flank to flank and so thick that the pale sand of the river bed is hidden by the black of their backs . |
| 13 | But the bottom of all the surrounding buildings is hidden by the high brick wall round the garden , and the top of them by the beige silk shades which are half-lowered over the windows . |
| 14 | Here the oral pore although quite superficial is hidden by an opercular papillae , the distalmost in the oral series . |
| 15 | The valley is drained by the Clough River ( unusually so named , this being the only example I can think of where the word ‘ River ’ follows the name instead of preceding it ) . |
| 16 | However , there is a net outflow of as much as 10 per cent and it is this ‘ lost ’ fluid which is drained by the lymphatics and returned to the circulation . |
| 17 | This is the same reader who , having decided that the ‘ Envoi ’ is ‘ literary , in a limiting sense ’ , is provoked by the word ‘ magic ’ in the middle stanza into deciding that ‘ the term ‘ literary ’ becomes a good deal more limiting , for the term ‘ aesthetic ’ rises to our lips , and so , perhaps , does ‘ American ’ ' And there we have it ! |
| 18 | Passionate debate is provoked by the problems of children whose first language is not English . |
| 19 | The camera is an auto-focus and the aperture is adjusted by the internal meter . |
| 20 | Recent activity is explained by a 1 per cent shareholding , built by Fininvest , a Milan-based media group run by Silvo Berlusconi . |
| 21 | This situation is explained by a variety of factors : |
| 22 | This marked urban — rural shift is explained by a number of causes . |
| 23 | More specifically , in sentences such as those above , in which an event mentioned in the first clause is explained by a reason or cause stated in a following because clause , that world knowledge includes information about what Garvey & Caramazza ( 1974 ) call the implicit causality of the verb in the first clause . |
| 24 | The faster rate of population growth in Siberia than in the rest of the country demonstrates the rapid and determined process of Siberia 's colonization , settlement and russification , and is explained by a number of factors . |
| 25 | This theory is not in conflict with the Samuelson hypothesis , and both may be correct , that is to say , volatility is explained by a number of separate factors such as maturity and uncertainty resolution . |
| 26 | At its root it is explained by a divergence of certain fundamental objectives between different Member States . |
| 27 | Her affection for the Bomb is explained by the fact that it is energy-charged and penis-shaped . |
| 28 | This is explained by the fact that the unemployment rate is lower among Protestants generally and that Easton 's population , besides being Protestant , is also disproportionately middle class . |
| 29 | The nature of authority is explained by the combination of the three theses we are discussing . |
| 30 | It is explained by the combination of the first two conditions , and since it is a performative purporting to affect the rights or duties of another , it has to be public at least in intention . |