Example sentences of "and [is] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CCLGF meets six or seven times a year and is chaired by the Secretary of State for the Environment . |
| 2 | This basic model postulates that the current price ( P o ) is a present value and is determined by the discounted future income that the share earns . |
| 3 | This department is responsible for all cabins and public areas and is headed by the chief steward . |
| 4 | The caller dials the freefone number and is connected by the operator on a transfer charge basis . |
| 5 | The second relaxation is a disengagement of the primitive chain from the deformed tube and is analysed by the kinematics of the primitive chain . |
| 6 | This provision is a percentage of the authority 's overall outstanding debt and is prescribed by the Government ( Part IV of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 ) . |
| 7 | Slavery was not exactly an enviable affair , its memory haunts much of our literature and is aggravated by the recent Colonial past of many nations . |
| 8 | It is made up of tact and impatience , it is sometimes marred by self-certainty and is attended by the occasional shaft of diffidence and fear . |
| 9 | The need to assess the likelihood of possible future changes in the climates of the world provides a strong reason for encouraging research on these problems , and is reinforced by the recognition that human activities are developing towards a scale from which significant effects on world climate might arise within the next century … |
| 10 | Continuing expansion of those services both supports and is reinforced by the airports authority 's ‘ Manchester Connects ’ policy which promotes Manchester as an international hub . |
| 11 | He is flying a kite — and good luck to him , but I am sure like me you will not be surprised to find that his kite blows away and is covered by the sands of time . |
| 12 | This is a straightforward service contract between the client and the software developer and is covered by the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982 . |
| 13 | Electron microscopy may improve identification but it is not widely available , is expensive , and is limited by the need for specially fixed tissues when generally only formalin fixed tissues are available . |
| 14 | For a linear ramp of velocity , acceleration is constant and is limited by the maximum permissible acceleration . |
| 15 | This chamber is equipped as a scribe 's workroom , and is inhabited by the Ghost of old Stanislav Goethe , a half-Kislevite ( on his mother 's side ) , half-Ostlander scholar . |
| 16 | In the first one , he is content at the beginning , but then we begin to see , at the end of this part , that he is dissatisfied with his status , his loneliness and is cared by the criminal ‘ underworld ’ . |
| 17 | The Universitat der Bundeswehr is a research university , chartered under authority of the Bavarian Ministry of Science and Culture , and is funded by the Federal Ministry of Defence . |
| 18 | Research into general aspects of the perception of spatial relationships began long before the special problems presented by GIS existed , and is exemplified by the classic work of Gould and White ( 1974 ) on ‘ mental maps ’ . |
| 19 | One of the most dramatic and beautiful of all operas , it concerns a woman who conceives a child out of wedlock and is rejected by the baby 's father ; she is concealed by her stepmother , who , out of concern for the girl , drowns the baby soon after its birth . |
| 20 | Barker ( 1984 ) describes this as the ‘ interactive stage ’ which follows the initial ‘ passive stage ’ and is followed by the ‘ active stage ’ in which the researcher may start conducting interviews with some of the people being studied , provided of course that the role is overt . |
| 21 | In each case the file name is given first and is followed by the module name . |
| 22 | Above and right : The home-made filter unit again makes use of planting baskets , and is disguised by the water mill . |
| 23 | The whole constellation is very rich , and is crossed by the Milky Way . |
| 24 | In Aruba the Governor ( currently Felipe B. Trompe ) , who represents and is appointed by the Crown , has executive power in external affairs . |
| 25 | In the Netherlands Antilles the Governor ( currently Jaime Saleh ) , who represents and is appointed by the Crown , has executive power in external affairs . |
| 26 | Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles each has a Governor , who represents and is appointed by the Crown , and has executive power in external affairs . |
| 27 | The full statistical analysis of module results ( see Table 5.3 ) is a public document and is scrutinized by the MCC , the MEC , and FRG , for anomalies every year . |
| 28 | Outpatient treatment follows the same lines as inpatient therapy , and is undertaken by the same team . |
| 29 | This ‘ growth industry ’ feeds on accelerating social change and the increase of centralized planning and control and is aided by the computer 's ability to store vast amounts of data and produce extensive tabular summaries . |
| 30 | The establishment has to draw nourishment from it , and plunders and is plundered by the underground . ’ |