Example sentences of "[noun prp] [is] [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It is interesting to note that farther to the west , in southern Oldenburg and at the Ems estuary , where Kupferschiefer is underlain by thin Rotliegendes and flat lying Upper Carboniferous , vitrinite reflectance is about the same in the Kupferschiefer and at the top Carboniferous , thus reflecting the predominance of recoalification .
2 The Inter-Andean Depression of Ecuador is controlled by two terrane boundaries ( sutures ) , the Cainozoic reactivation of which provided channelways for the double chain of volcanic cordilleras , which form a caldera-graben .
3 Possible early human ancestors existed in Pakistan two million years ago , while the much earlier Sivapithecus from India and Pakistan is held by some to be ancestral to all the great apes including man , or perhaps just orang-utans and man .
4 of water in the United States is owned by French companies , and 1 have not heard the Americans yelling .
5 A direct-out three-pin XLR is accompanied by two push switches for selecting pre or post EQ out , along with a ground lift to eradicate earth loops when DI'ing .
6 The ‘ Zechstein Basin ’ contains thick halite sequences , the ‘ Fringe Zechstein' is characterised by interbedded carbonates and anhydrites and the London-Brabant Massif is formed of pre-Carboniferous sediments and meta-sediments lying directly beneath Cretaceous strata .
7 On her visit to Britain , American pop-singer Katie Cotton is befriended by nine-year-old Ben .
8 The BeSHT — ben Eliezer is known by that acronym — produced a shock-wave of such proportions in Judaism that it has still not recovered from him .
9 Sixty per cent of electricity in Lithuania is generated by two RBMK-1500 reactors ; 40 per cent in the Ukraine is produced by nuclear power stations ; and 50 per cent in Kiev is still supplied by the part of Chernobyl that remains in operation .
10 1795 Lithuania is annexed by Russian Empire by third partition of Poland .
11 We set out to establish which region(s) of c-Jun is phosphorylated by this kinase .
12 Sixty per cent of electricity in Lithuania is generated by two RBMK-1500 reactors ; 40 per cent in the Ukraine is produced by nuclear power stations ; and 50 per cent in Kiev is still supplied by the part of Chernobyl that remains in operation .
13 Progressive Archbishop Romero is assassinated by right-wing forces .
14 The NNDR is set by central government , collected by local authorities , and paid into a central pool .
15 Representing Dagenham , in east London , Mr Gould is seen by some colleagues as well-placed to assess how Labour can broaden its appeal to the communities that have rejected it at four general elections in a row .
16 England is administered by centrally-based functional departments , while such functions as the supervision of employment and productivity , the work of the Departments of the Environment and of Health and Social Security also extend over Scotland and Wales .
17 Beaumont is encouraged by recent results that support his belief that he has a real Gold Cup contender in Jodami , currently 8-1 for the chasing crown .
18 Travel within Scotland is represented by three volumes of tours by an unidentified Englishman , 1785–88 , to the Central Lowlands , to the English Lakes via the Scottish Borders , and to the Highlands .
19 Because it is so efficient Mossad is courted by other agencies who are anxious to trade off information , particularly about Arab terrorism that affects their own countries .
20 The sad fact is that the SMG is financed by two boroughs , Ealing and Hounslow , members of which are sympathetic to their aims .
21 LTP is characterized by three basic properties : cooperativity , associativity and input-specificity .
22 The symbol which the older and more experienced policemen on the sections use as their model is Dixon of Dock Green , although the avuncular figure of Dixon is ridiculed by many younger policemen as outdated and antiquarian , even for Great Britain .
23 The native fauna of the Galapagos Islands is threatened by exotic species .
24 Another reason for a fresh visit to Dering Street is provided by enterprising young private dealer , Thomas Dane , who has joined forces with Scott Crolla 's father , Romano , the proprietor of the street 's cafeteria .
25 member of the US Congress whom Martin Chuzzlewit meets on board the steamboat returning from Eden , a chauvinistic windbag celebrated for a speech called ‘ the Pogram Defiance ’ which , Martin is informed by another passenger , ‘ defied the world in general to com-pete with our country upon any hook ; and develop 'd our internal resources for making war upon the universal airth ’ .
26 Well , as usual it 's all there in the papers that Mr has prepared for us if anybody cares to read them , and you will notice , the national non-domestic rate , the business rate as it 's known , the contribution that the government are passing on from the business rates paid in Wiltshire , back to the people of Wiltshire is dropping by seven point nine million pounds , it 's being cut from a hundred and eighteen point six to a hundred and nine point three million pounds , and again this is pound for pound .
27 DROP DEAD FRED is produced by Working Title , whose films we are celebrating throughout the Festival , so it 's particularly appropriate that their latest success opens the Festival .
28 They 're in fact five hundred and one thousand , one hundred and thirteen and if Mr is erred by one thousand one hundred and thirteen pounds I would hope he 'd forgive him , the fact is that this year 's budget for those two buildings er , is that amount .
29 Although LCC is used by other libraries , in order to understand the format of the scheme it is necessary to recognize that it was intended to fit the LC collections and services as closely as possible , without reference to outside needs and influences .
30 In contrast , the success of the scheme in West Reading is questioned by one commentator , who refers to the ‘ dreary ’ and ‘ ineffective ’ road narrowings .
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