Example sentences of "[is] [adv] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impact on MB Group 's balance sheet of acquiring sizeable goodwill in both ABS and Caradon is mostly offset by the issue of $150m US preferred stock and a handy £80m revaluation of its CMB stake to leave pro forma gearing at 24 per cent . |
| 2 | The County is mostly served by the Southern Electricity Board . |
| 3 | It may thus be possible that binding of pou[c] to this motif is mostly directed by the POU HD and perhaps further stabilized by the POU S . |
| 4 | The change is strikingly illustrated by the number of surviving political bonds . |
| 5 | An invention which is properly exploited by a small business may have a dramatic impact on the employer 's turnover ; a larger business , on the other hand , may be able to generate a far larger sales income with the same invention but ultimately produce an insignificant effect on the latter 's overall liquidity . |
| 6 | It is assumed here that juries and others do attach considerable importance to the label when it is a question of homicide , and therefore that the excessive use of force in self-defence is a matter which is properly reflected by a separate qualified defence , rather than being left to sentencing ( which means executive discretion , if the mandatory penalty for murder remains ) or forced artificially into the doctrine of provocation ( when there may be no real evidence of loss of self-control ) . |
| 7 | As we have said , at least one modern authority maintains that the mausoleum in question is Priscillian 's , and this is widely accepted by the local populace as well . |
| 8 | This is not entirely explained by huge increases in population , as is widely propagated by the mass media and widely believed . |
| 9 | If political groups and parties atrophy into a façade behind which there hides nothing but the power struggles of bureaucrats in the party apparatus , then a pluralist , democratic society will be transformed into a mass of isolated individuals whose political thinking is uniformly directed by the mass media … |
| 10 | You may be one of those people who is easily swayed by a superficially attractive candidate with a strong personality , or you may be someone who is most influenced by the person you last spoke to . |
| 11 | But the decision is rather undermined by the Court 's acceptance that the order in question ought not to have been made because , in making it , the judge had ignored the rule that coercive interim relief is not available against Ministers of the Crown . |
| 12 | This problem with the language of antiracism is acutely expressed by the lack of clarity that surrounds the term ‘ antiracism ’ itself . |
| 13 | Erm , which is a very proportion of their costs , it 's mostly funded by the D T I , and some private sector investment . |
| 14 | Cessation of subduction is eventually followed by a halt to volcanic activity on the overriding plate . |
| 15 | The former gains a temporary respite from persistent blood loss while the ageing parasite population is eventually replaced by a vigorous young generation . |
| 16 | He is eventually overcome by a kind of fatigue which numbs his senses so that poverty is no longer all-pervasive . |
| 17 | VAT is a form of turn-over or sales tax , which is passed along the production chain and is eventually borne by the consumer . |
| 18 | At the slave auction there are many would-be buyers for Barbara , but she is eventually bought by the enigmatic Tavius , the keeper of the household at Nero 's court . |
| 19 | The American executive branch of the state is overwhelmingly staffed by the upper class ; Congress serves at most as a place in which dissident members of the upper class can air grievances . |
| 20 | This section will question the presumption that crime is overwhelmingly perpetrated by the working classes , or that the ‘ real ’ and serious crimes are those which are typically committed by this group — crimes like burglary , robbery and vandalism . |
| 21 | The attention we pay today to every minute detail of a vintage guitar is rarely matched by the records kept at the time ; as with many other guitars , the origins of the Les Paul Custom are still a subject for debate . |
| 22 | This means , of course , that the kind of contradiction I mentioned earlier is rarely discovered by the average fundamentalist because their one-dimensional way of tackling the text , a few verses at a time , will not lead them to make these uncomfortable and , I think , liberating discoveries . |
| 23 | It is rarely retained by the organisation beyond its useful life . |
| 24 | POUNDED : Even a Range Rover is badly damaged by the sea |
| 25 | Well that 's since denied by the defendant and that is a factual , major factual dispute which is obviously what you 'll have to decide . |
| 26 | This is avidly collected by the locals as it is delicious boiled and pickled . |
| 27 | The user is verbally instructed by the program to carry out various operations on the terminal , and user response is compared with the programmed correct answer . |
| 28 | First , to the extent that an issue is expressly covered by the Convention it displaces rules of national law that might otherwise apply and thereby renders otiose conflict-of-laws rules designed to lead to the selection of the applicable national law . |
| 29 | This provision is expressly covered by the final words of section 63(2) ‘ and includes … a proper proportion of any expense relating partly to the benefit and partly to other matters . ’ |
| 30 | If the mortgage is additionally secured by the assignment of a life policy , then the future of that policy must be sorted out . |