Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] by [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 2 | Radio 4 's presenters LOUISE BOTTING and VINCENT DUGGLEBY are joined by Investment Advisor CHRISTOPHER GILCHRIST to answer your questions on personal finance in the Elmwood Hall . |
| 3 | Some smaller firms may have a centralised functional structure where tasks and activities are arranged by business function such as : |
| 4 | Even peers have to be content with coronets of silver gilt , and holders of the orders of chivalry , today awarded for services to the professions , the arts , business and a wide range of public entertainment as well as to politicians and servants of the state , are designated by gilt insignia embellished with enamel . |
| 5 | All other patients are carried by Ambulance Car Service . |
| 6 | Well , sir , I was thinking … it 's not just us what are unburdened by chart success , is it ? |
| 7 | Some of the amines which are decomposed by monoamine oxidase occur in the brain and are thought to function as neurotransmitters . |
| 8 | This book concentrates on the latter ; discussing the ways in which both adsorption isotherms and sorption kinetics are modified by cation exchange , and sorption of strongly bound polar molecules , which may limit and block pores . |
| 9 | However , just as hardware systems are dominated by engineering thinking , macro-systems are dominated by economic thinking . |
| 10 | These processes are regulated by gene expression and in health , asymmetric stem cell division provides a steady state , in which the stem cell compartment is maintained and the differentiated lineages are produced at rate equal to their losses . |
| 11 | The Evangelical party will perhaps continue to exalt their hero as partially as parties always do — but the members of it will act thus only so far as they are possessed by party spirit , rather than by the pure spirit of the doctrines which they hold in common with their so-called Catholic opponents , whom adversaries style popish . |
| 12 | All members of the family are related by sequence homology within this domain that is composed of the POU specific domain , the linker and the POU homeodomain . |
| 13 | Anyone who has the experience of employing workers will confirm the clear work incentive when less money is deducted at source from employees ' pay , even if the same overall sums are collected by Stamp Duty , VAT , and the like , for this later allows personal discretion as to what to do with one 's own money ; and such choice is important to people at every level of industrial life . |
| 14 | A total of 45 estuaries , including 26 which are important wildlife sites , are threatened by land reclamation schemes , which include new housing estates , marinas , waste-disposal facilities and coastal roads . |
| 15 | All are threatened by habitat degradation by people . |
| 16 | Large areas of unspoilt British countryside are threatened by mineral exploitation , often because of mineral rights granted 30 or 40 years ago that have lain dormant , according to a report by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation . |
| 17 | They are overseen by Tennis Director , former Davis and Kings Cup player , Robin Drysdale , who has a compliment of 10 coaches under his wing . |
| 18 | Not all samples are selected by probability sampling ( e.g. the WHO collaborative studies ) . |
| 19 | They 're surrounded by bear grass , asparagus fern and ivy , to create the background , and then filled out with bridal gladioli , freesias , Singapore orchids and a few fragrant roses . |
| 20 | Both are really unfriendly , as they 're driven by command line switches . |
| 21 | All holidays in this brochure are sold by Cosmos Coach Tours Ltd . |
| 22 | New ( not vintage ) bears are sold by mail order . |
| 23 | These are used by carpet designer to create ‘ something different ’ in the market place . |
| 24 | Consequently , it is possible to identify types of information that are needed by language processing systems but are either absent from or wrongly presented within the dictionary . |
| 25 | But the demonstration that high levels of p53 are induced by DNA damage has led to the concept that p53 might be part of a damage-control pathway rather than the pathways that are at work in normal development . |
| 26 | Experiments have indicated that these changes are induced by day length . |
| 27 | The model for the protein G/Fab complex contrasts with the crystal structure of Staphylococcus protein A bound to human Fc , where contacts are mediated by side chain/side chain interactions between protein A and Fc ( ref. 11 ) . |
| 28 | Subroutines are similar to PROCedures , but they are called by line number not by name . |
| 29 | The regulation of pension funds tends to be far lighter than for insurance companies as they are bound by trust legislation , and because the companies that offer pensions have an incentive to make sure that schemes are adequately administered as they are responsible for the benefits they have agreed upon for their employees ( even though they rarely run the fund themselves ) . |
| 30 | The groundwaters associated with the retrograde alteration are highly mineralised and are buffered by portlandite solubility to pH 12.5 , making them the most alkaline natural waters recorded . |