Example sentences of "[is] [verb] [adv prt] by an " in BNC.

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1 Every reaction on a metabolic chart is speeded up by an enzyme .
2 685 , 694 : ‘ I take it that ’ the tenant ‘ has a right as against all the world to remain in possession until he is turned out by an order of the court . ’
3 The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this .
4 Social injustice is brought on by an economic policy perpetuated by the Tories and their .
5 Therefore , the less this inner consciousness or Life Force is hemmed in by an instinctive mind structure , then the greater is the capacity for caring feeling and the more an offspring is capable of learning .
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