Example sentences of "are [verb] [prep] by the " in BNC.

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1 Two neighbouring sections of the Act are relied upon by the Bank of England in support of their construction of section 39 .
2 Some languages quite openly exploit this belief : Janssen-Jurreit notes that in Konkani , a language of south India , there is a distinction between married women ( who are referred to by the feminine form ) and young or widowed women ( who get the neuter to mark their lesser status ) .
3 In the context of the Act , all writers , artists , composers and other originators or a work of art are referred to by the title ‘ author ’ .
4 When these anxieties are ministered to by the products of the instant government under which we now with remarkable acquiescence subsist and are abetted by draftsmanship of the esoteric kind sometimes adopted by our professional brothers south of the border , we may expect to be confronted by problems of dimensions quite disparate to the simple issues which are essentially involved .
5 However , it has also been argued that women are discriminated against by the agents of the law , just as they are in other areas of life .
6 If American collectors are discriminated against by the record companies , as described in Mr Newman 's letter ( May ) , we in Australia fare far worse .
7 Erm the main difference between a non-executive director and a director basically is that the directors are added to by the shareholders and are re-elected at the annual general meetings .
8 In Bangladesh children under the age of five or six are looked after by the whole family .
9 The bureaucracy certainly needs streamlining : the immigrants are met initially by the Absorption Ministry , but once in the country many of their needs are looked after by the Jewish Agency , the semi-private organisation that dates back to the early years of Jewish settlement in Palestine .
10 As soon as they 're installed in the Green Room , guests are looked after by the Floor Manager .
11 I am conducting research into the education provision and support for young people who are looked after by the local authority .
12 Such betrayals , when not over-taxing the as yet limited mental resources of the infant , are compensated for by the acquisition of new much praised skills and satisfactions .
13 To some extent they are compensated for by the availability of a wealth of clinical material , and by the experience of working in urban and rural communities .
14 that is run in the secondary schools in the first year where the children are talked to by the police and they see videos and they are a act
15 They are cared for by the shepherds , who would once have come up for the summer along with the animals , and slept in their traditional , bleak little cabins ; nowadays , they are for the most part motorized and can commute genteelly to the livestock from their homes below .
16 Some of the features of the legal model which we have depicted such as the power of the shareholders to dismiss the directors and the fiduciary duties imposed upon the directors are provided for by the law rather than by the articles of association .
17 Pensions for employees of the Scottish Transport Group , with the exception of some Caledonian MacBrayne employees , are provided for by the group 's pension schemes .
18 Registered Designs are provided for by the Registered Designs Act 1949 , amended by the Copyright , Designs and Patents Act 1988 .
19 In contrast to this condoned and systematic brutality , rugby 's ‘ image problem ’ , in Mr Lieberman 's analysis , stems from its association with ‘ beer parties ’ , which are frowned upon by the editor of Sports Illustrated , who is dismissive of rugby in a way which I find offensive ( I wonder if he 's aware , for instance , that the US Womens ' team recently won a world title ? ) , and attempting to placate people like him would be buying into a value system which is completely alien to the game .
20 There are also various other matters that are dealt with by the magistrates .
21 Most building disputes which go to litigation are dealt with by the Official Referee .
22 Proposals for mining activities are dealt with by the authority responsible for all forms of development control .
23 Proposed revenue changes are dealt with by the Ways and Means Committee in the House and the Finance Committee in the Senate .
24 His aim was to determine whether single letters are dealt with by the right hemisphere in a visual or a phonological code .
25 The Oedipus fable , for example , begins with a non-disabled person whose transgressions are dealt with by the addition of an impairment .
26 Such disputes are dealt with by the civil law and in the civil courts .
27 Relaxations on smaller buildings are dealt with by the Local Authority themselves .
28 ( 6.4 ) unc ( Note that any clashes of y with bound variables of P are dealt with by the renaming implicit in the substitution operator . )
29 Claims involving a vessel in an EEC country are dealt with by the branches in the same manner as other claims involving EEC countries .
30 of the grants given to the disabled are dealt with by the Craigavon and Newry offices .
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