Example sentences of "[is] [vb pp] by the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | An estimated enrolment figure is calculated by the addition to the UF figure of the U- figure weighted according to previous experience . |
| 4 | The cost or benefit is calculated by the volume of net imports , or exports , times the difference between EC prices and world prices . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Passionate debate is provoked by the problems of children whose first language is not English . |
| 12 | The camera is an auto-focus and the aperture is adjusted by the internal meter . |
| 13 | Her affection for the Bomb is explained by the fact that it is energy-charged and penis-shaped . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The nature of authority is explained by the combination of the three theses we are discussing . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The eerie lunar landscape of white spoil-heaps around St Austell is explained by the fact that there are eight tons of waste to every ton of china clay extracted . |
| 18 | This phenomenon is explained by the fact that elements can be introduced into mental models without being explicitly mentioned . |
| 19 | The extraordinary proximity of All Saints and St. John 's is explained by the fact that they form the neck of the bull . |
| 20 | St. Thomas 's isolated position , well outside the medieval town wall , is explained by the bull 's horn and St. Martin 's Church forms the front leg of the running bull — the medieval guild of that church being responsible for providing the bull for the bull-running festival . |
| 21 | The difference is explained by the greater likelihood of men having held pensionable jobs , both because full-time jobs held by men were more likely to have pension rights than women 's , and because , before the age of retirement , a majority of older women had either no paid job or a part-time job with no pension provision . |
| 22 | And how much of the variation in the prohibition is explained by the character of the inhibitions ? |
| 23 | It is explained by the slow growth of GDP in the UK ; consequently , comparisons of GDP per head place Britain in a very lowly position . |
| 24 | Input-specificity is explained by the need for the presynaptic terminal to provide a sufficient concentration of L-glutamate to activate adequate numbers of NMDA receptors . |
| 25 | In determinist terms , this is explained by the virtually infinite complexity of different constellations of different causal variables in individual cases . |
| 26 | From that first step into making money there is a pattern of change in product or profession or activity which is explained by the opportunity to make more money . |
| 27 | This paradox is explained by the fact that in Britain the vast majority of older people are poor and there is therefore less difference in income levels between the group . |
| 28 | The nature of the rebellion is explained by the social character of the island with a cohesive clan structure and social solidarity ; the leaders included radicals who had returned from Japan and schoolteachers . |
| 29 | The large share of " other " personal service and " other " operatives working on a temporary basis is explained by the fact that they are in jobs for which little training is necessary . |
| 30 | Indeed , that part of the over-representation of teenagers amongst the temporary labour force which is not explained by the temporary working of persons still at school is explained by the high proportion of the age group in special youth training schemes . |