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

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1 The quarter or more of the world 's population who live around the rim of the Pacific are too diverse to be cutely grouped as the ‘ Pacific man ’ in the ‘ Pacific century ’ , so readily defined by fund managers and futurologists .
2 Name one type of information not readily obtained by radar .
3 We were unable to discover a donor whose buccal epithelial cells gave reproducible and unambiguous adherence and non-adherence with the appropriate control strains ; buccal cells which bound adhesive E coli strains also tended to have a resident salivary flora which was not readily removed by washing .
4 Denudation chronology also produced a number of debates which centred not only on the existence of surfaces of a particular number , which was not readily resolved by trend surface analysis , but also on the mode of development of planation surfaces and the significance of earth movement in influencing the denudation chronology .
5 Soils which are water soluble are so often mixed with water insoluble soils that they are not readily dissolved by water on its own .
6 A woman 's liver is also more readily damaged by alcohol than a man 's .
7 Thus , when the Board of Education issues its official Suggestions for Teachers handbook in 1910 it transmitted a clear message : ‘ … the high function of the teacher is to prepare the child for the life of the good citizen , to create and foster the aptitude for work and for the intelligent use of leisure , and to develop those features of character which are most readily influenced by school life , such as loyalty to comrades , loyalty to institutions , unselfishness and an orderly and disciplined habit of mind . ’
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