Example sentences of "is [adj] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) If he is dishonest by the first test : " The jury must consider whether the defendant himself must have realised that what he was doing was by those standards dishonest . " |
| 2 | Then the actual church which is iced by the third tier , the spires and decoration around the top of the building . |
| 3 | The terrified farmboy , Thomas , miserably seasick but comforted by being set to tend sheep , calves and poultry in the depths of the ship , is protected so far as it is possible by the sturdy Jesse , but both are subject to the appalling cruelty of the captain , Daniel Swift . |
| 4 | At least one environmentalist is pained by the green overload . |
| 5 | A key assumption is that the money supply is exogenous — uninfluenced by economic activity — but is controllable by the monetary authorities . |
| 6 | Modernism , the tip of whose iceberg is visible by the mid-nineteenth century , but whose social conditions of existence are pervasive only from the end of that century , is an end point of this differentiation , a point at which spheres take on full autonomy . |
| 7 | This tenet is untouched by the private language argument . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone is delighted by the enormous level of support we have received following Freddie 's death . ’ |
| 9 | Since he has only been a director since last May , Wanless is untainted by the strategic mistakes of the past regime . |
| 10 | The scheme is part-financed by the Scottish Development Department . |
| 11 | Frequently dependent on assumptions of common cause with film theory and criticism , television genre theory is uncomplicated by the longer and more complex history of aesthetics and poetics . |
| 12 | We suggest that this is so because the vivid events are hallucinatory bursts whose content is unconstrained by the previous visual events , the ongoing emotion , or the ongoing integration ; whereas the less vivid events are visual material generated by the cognitive integration , and as such , are constrained in content . |
| 13 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 14 | Tony O'Dalaigh is unperturbed by the negative reception which John McGahern received from critics here . |
| 15 | This is well-illustrated by the plentiful funerary monuments of hellenistic Boiotia , which retain features , such as the simple naming of the dead man without patronymic , which in other parts of the Greek world had long given way to more sophisticated formulae ; and Boiotia retained her local script till the age of Epaminondas in the fourth century . |
| 16 | Diesel Cars : In common with many drivers , John Langley is impressed by the all-conquering Citroen-Peugeot power plant You see it here , you see it there — the XUD is everywhere |
| 17 | ‘ Besides , my young friend here is intrigued by the archaeological implications of our situation . ’ |
| 18 | SO Gadfly ( Echo January 29 ) is puzzled by the apparent silence of the Liberal Democrat Prospective Parliamentary candidate for Darlington , Peter Bergg ? |
| 19 | First , the sensitivity at the company level is complicated by the many and varied hedging policies UK companies will have employed . |
| 20 | A working class composed of 60–70 per cent of the potential labour force confronts the 5 per cent of capitalists who own significant amounts of the means of production , but the picture is complicated by the two different intermediate categories , each accounting for 10–15 per cent of the population . |
| 21 | Its task is complicated by the following interpretations of the statutory definition : |
| 22 | In some cases the design is complicated by the non-ideal nature of the gear . |
| 23 | The Bosnian defence of Stup and Azici is complicated by the enormous disparity in firepower between Bosnians and Serbs . |
| 24 | For example , if a cell doubles its discharge rate under one set of conditions but quadruples under another , does that difference affect how subsequent levels in the circuit respond so that one group of cells is excited by the first set of conditions but a second group is activated by the second set ? |
| 25 | The average price of our contracts is affordable by the great majority of those businesses and the nature of our service is seen by them as essential to keep them out of trouble . |
| 26 | But one person , however , is undaunted by the corporate blood that has been spilled over La Cinq : Silvio Berlusconi , the Italian media owner is now bidding for Britain 's Channel 5 after twice failing to revive its French namesake . |
| 27 | Until a sale is made to a non-registered person , all VAT paid is redeemable by the next registered trader in the chain . |
| 28 | He is amazed by the complex destiny which has put them before each other like this , two solid independent creatures face to face , two selves , with a common background and a common source of reference in Goethe 's Faust . |
| 29 | Successively a Rhodes scholar , Foreign Office mandarin , Oxford don , politician , TV current affairs reporter and politician again , he is unencumbered by the traditionalist baggage inevitably carried around by those who grew up where the writ of the Labour establishment still runs largely unchallenged . |
| 30 | The negative , containing the latent image of the figure but otherwise unexposed , is not yet developed ; instead it is run through the printer again , this time bipacked with the male matte and the positive of the background , the White House The previously unexposed portion of the negative will now contain images of this background , while the previously exposed portion , protected by the matte , receives no more light and is unaffected by the second run . |