Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] supported by [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But , as so often happens when dealing with the United States , informal agreements reached with Presidents are not necessarily supported by Congress .
2 The idea now under consideration , that we take effects to be probable events , is announced or expounded but not much supported by argument .
3 ‘ An American president 's proposals are not always supported by Congress — that does n't mean he has to stamp his foot and leave Capitol Hill , ’ he said .
4 However , the XE is not well supported by software houses , and although it still has a lot of games , most of these are very old .
5 This position is not however supported by State practice .
6 Stephen Gould , in his excellent essay on The Pan da " s Thumb , has made the point that evolution can be more strongly supported by evidence of telling imperfections than by evidence of perfection .
7 The Scrapbook is also variously supported by Association Française d'Action Artistique , the Ministry of Culture , Copenhagen , the Instituo Banco San Paulo of Turin , Becks Bier , to name some of the backers , and also by the furtively named Friends of the Situationist International , whoever they are !
8 Evidence for an association between unemployment and imprisonment has , however , been presented in , various studies from different countries ( Braithwaite 1980 ; Inverarity and Grattet 1987 ; Inverarity and McCarthy 1988 ; Montgomery 1985 ; Laffargue and Godefroy 1987 ) and has been most strongly supported by time series data analysed using some variant of least squares regression .
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