Example sentences of "is [vb pp] by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the south side a corresponding basement is hidden by a drawer flap which , when pulled down , reveals the cellar with its groined roof . |
| 2 | The valley below the adventurers is hidden by a layer of thick mist that seems almost to glow . |
| 3 | This situation is explained by a variety of factors : |
| 4 | More specifically , in sentences such as those above , in which an event mentioned in the first clause is explained by a reason or cause stated in a following because clause , that world knowledge includes information about what Garvey & Caramazza ( 1974 ) call the implicit causality of the verb in the first clause . |
| 5 | This marked urban — rural shift is explained by a number of causes . |
| 6 | The faster rate of population growth in Siberia than in the rest of the country demonstrates the rapid and determined process of Siberia 's colonization , settlement and russification , and is explained by a number of factors . |
| 7 | This theory is not in conflict with the Samuelson hypothesis , and both may be correct , that is to say , volatility is explained by a number of separate factors such as maturity and uncertainty resolution . |
| 8 | At its root it is explained by a divergence of certain fundamental objectives between different Member States . |
| 9 | This ignorance is compounded by a lack of knowledge of where to turn to for advice , and a fear of direct contact with enforcing authorities . |
| 10 | The problem of poor reading habits is compounded by a lack of science textbooks . |
| 11 | ( The lack of teeth in terms of penalties is compounded by a lack of powers to search for evidence of abuses . ) |
| 12 | This misplaced sycophancy is compounded by a mass of aristocratic name dropping . |
| 13 | That , in turn , is compounded by a breakdown of the spinal cord . |
| 14 | A batch number is assigned by a member of the Personnel staff to the report and a parameter with this batch number is input into the relevant computer program . |
| 15 | The strong rural support for the Party is recognized by a call for ‘ a realistic return for the farming community , with special measures to offset the disadvantages , especially in the intensive livestock sector , resulting from our isolation from Great Britain ’ . |
| 16 | One suggestion that is favoured by a number of commentators would be to alter the onus of proof . |
| 17 | The water supply of over a million people living in the area are is contaminated by a range of pollutants , including heavy metals , and nitrates at concentrations of up to 25 times the permitted EC limits . |
| 18 | In a hot water radiator system , water is heated by a gas , oil or solid fuel boiler and circulated through pipes and radiators . |
| 19 | This passes through a mile-long avenue of noble Scots pines ( denuded by a recent fire ) soon after leaving the village , crosses a bare upland with views of the mountains of Coulin Forest , and is joined by a road from Applecross for the last stage of the journey to Lochcarron ; our itinerary will join it at the junction after a tour of the Applecross peninsula which follows below . |
| 20 | The Nailsworth Stream is joined by a number of tributaries en route , one being the stream that runs down the Horsley valley . |
| 21 | Further on by 2km ( just over a mile ) at the hamlet of Hinterthal , the road crosses the river and forks where the stream is joined by a tributary . |
| 22 | The darker humour associated with ED 209 , which does indeed look quite large and threatening at first ( and not at all like a model only one foot ( 30cm ) high , which it is ) is typified when it , in error , riddles a young executive with machine-gun bullets on its first official presentation and the stunned silence is broken by a cry of ‘ Someone send for a paramedic ! ’ |
| 23 | This combination of the person-specificity of cloning and the generality of mapping led to reverse genetics , or positional cloning : the position of a mutation ( such as those causing muscular dystrophy or cystic fibrosis ) is first defined by genetic linkage , and then physical maps of the DNA sequence from the chromosomal location are made from which the mutation is plucked by a mixture of intuition and hard sequence data . |
| 24 | The approach in England is typified by a statement of Lord Diplock : |
| 25 | Contemporary reaction to this magnificent poem is typified by a critic in The Monthly Review in 1763 who thought he knew that Smart was forbidden the use of writing materials in the asylum and that he had written it ‘ with the end of a key , upon the wainscot ’ . |
| 26 | The position of the SST representative is filled by a member of the Technical Support section of SST . |
| 27 | Anteating ( where " ants " are deemed for convenience to include termites — another convergence as we shall see ) is a " trade " that is filled by a variety of convergent mammals . |
| 28 | This emerges most clearly in ‘ Radical Chic ’ ( Wolfe 1975 ) where Wolfe 's ethnography is prefaced by a review of the sociological literature , but the genre as a whole , though typically lacking such overt ambitions , has some of the flavour of social science research . |
| 29 | Each volume is prefaced by a list of abbreviations and symbols , while Volume 4 contains a 77-page glossary , a directory of contributors , a synoptic outline of the contents ( including a list of the languages of the world ) and an index . |
| 30 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |