Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] by [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people would argue that many applications for judicial review which are heard by courts in fact involve wider political and administrative issues ; and that the rules of evidence and procedure in such cases should be changed to allow interested third parties to ‘ intervene ’ in the proceedings and to allow relevant information to be given about the likely impact of a decision one way or the other on the administrative process and on the public at large . |
| 2 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 3 | These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses . |
| 4 | Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group . |
| 5 | Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate . |
| 6 | They are dismissed by others in the occult , who claim that the group ‘ tell outsiders this tall story ( of Satan being the Son of God ) to make themselves look respectable ’ . |
| 7 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 8 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 9 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |
| 10 | In a nation where rank is everything , and everything is ranked , these ‘ yuppiewhites ’ are placed by Japanese at the top of the gaijin pecking order . |
| 11 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 12 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |
| 13 | Talks are given by members of staff , often illustrated or using live subjects . |
| 14 | The fenoderee possess phenomenal strength and are favoured by farmers for helping with heavy agricultural tasks , in particular they are famous for their skill and thoroughness in harvesting crops , and have been known to thresh a barnful of corn in one night . |
| 15 | Orchards and small fruits , mainly raspberries , are favoured by growers in the Clyde valley near Lanark , near Dundee , along the coast of the Firth of Tay , and in the Vale of Strathmore . |
| 16 | They are completed by hand by the scientist at or near the time of the work being recorded and form a chronological , step by step log of what was planned , what was done and the results gained . |
| 17 | It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 18 | With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device . |
| 19 | Marketing activities are conducted mainly across the external boundaries of the organizational system , and they are undertaken by managers of all kinds , not only by marketing specialists . |
| 20 | At the centre one can clearly see the bulge of the Milky Way extending above and below the flat disk of the Milky Way , which is reddened by galactic dust in the same way that sunsets are reddened by dust in the atmosphere . |
| 21 | Some of the different research process models are listed by Weiss in her paper on the influence of social science research on public policy . |
| 22 | Members are listed by area of operation and further information and brochures can be obtained by contacting directly the schools of your choice . |
| 23 | These institutions , the Ideological State Apparatuses ( ISAs ) are listed by Althusser as : the religious , the educational , the family , the legal , the political , the trade union , the communications and the cultural . |
| 24 | Those who subscribe to them and are honoured by reference to them may be thought of with contempt by those for whom the underlife is the serious basis of social living . |
| 25 | Most optical resists are developed by mixtures of solvents which wash away the more soluble material left after exposure . |
| 26 | Great northern divers , having spent the winter singly in many of the Shetland voes , gather in parties and are joined by birds from further south . |
| 27 | Each data point in Figs 4 to 9 represent the mean of two experiments and the results from the ascending and descending colon in corresponding patients are joined by lines in Figs 4 to 6 . |
| 28 | The travellers are joined by colleagues from Devon and Warwickshire . |
| 29 | Even in exercising their power of interpretations , they are limited by rules of interpretation and by precedent . |
| 30 | The pupils are insulted by weakness on the part of those in authority who they expect to be strong and this weakness , once established , provokes more playing up : |