Example sentences of "[am/are] by the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I confess to finding some of his Freudian speculations , unleavened as they are by the faintest suspicion of humour , hard to follow , in the sense that I am unsure what would count either for or against them . |
| 2 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 3 | The new , expensive , equipment required secure and sound cover , thus the Club had to build suitably good sheds ; these are by the 3rd fairway . |
| 4 | Quitainer carved some of the statues on the walls but some , more classical-looking , are by the two Süssner brothers from Bavaria . |
| 5 | All references are by the author-date system ( e.g. , ‘ Grice , 1961 ’ ) and are collected in the References at the end of the book . |
| 6 | His sadism is satisfied , at least at first , within the permitted limits of naval discipline , but it is accompanied by unpredictable moods and actions which disturb and perplex the crew to the point of mutiny , terrified as they are by the hostile surveillance of the officers and the malicious spying which William Bentley the midshipman carries on by his uncle 's order . |
| 7 | The earliest records of markings on the disc of Venus are by the Italian lawyer Franciscus Fontana ( 1585–1656 ) in 1643 . |
| 8 | A few are by the main road , but most are quiet . |
| 9 | The Government fatally underestimate how very chastened many consumers are by the harsh experience of the last couple of years . |
| 10 | Masked as they are by the sexual scents of other animals or the synthesised fragrance of flowers , they probably still affect our behaviour to some extent . |
| 11 | The difference between need and dare and the modals is simply that the latter are by the very nature of their lexical meaning incapable of evoking a reality , while the former can evoke potentialities only in non-assertive use . |