Example sentences of "are [verb] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least one top left-hander in the top six looks a must to help combat Warne 's leg-spin-and the odds on David Gower returning are shortening almost by the hour . |
| 2 | And they are treated harshly by the form of the electoral system . |
| 3 | Periodicals ( or serials as they are sometimes known ) are listed alphabetically by the title as it appears on the title page of the periodical . |
| 4 | Their qualifications are validated either by the British Accreditation Council for Independent Further and Higher Education ( BACIFHE ) or by one of the independent professional bodies such as the National Council for Drama Training or the Council for Dance Education , or are the college 's own non-validated certificates or diplomas . |
| 5 | Officials describe the exodus as ‘ quota-driven ’ , meaning that numbers are limited only by the number of places made available in resettlement countries . |
| 6 | It does rather sound as though DTP is where you 're heading , and your choices are limited only by the memory in your machine and your budget — in that order . |
| 7 | The kinds of worlds that can be created are limited only by the multimedia software designed to generate them and the computer processing power available to bring them to life . |
| 8 | For we are taught both by the words of worthy men of old and by our experience that this is a most certain sign , and it has been found that even if she be urged and exhorted by solemn conjurations to shed tears , if she be a witch she will not be able to weep : although she will assume a tearful aspect and smear her cheeks and eyes with spittle to make it appear that she is weeping ; wherefore she must be closely watched by the attendants . |
| 9 | IIb produces only luxury goods which are consumed solely by the capitalists . |
| 10 | Thus is perpetuated the unanswerable myth whereby all mysteries are explained away by the simple process of ascribing them to some remote and inaccessible ‘ god ’ who created everything . |
| 11 | For example , in an ARTEP study of export zones in Sri Lanka , South Korea , the Philippines , Malaysia and India , Maex ( 1983 ) demonstrates that poor wages and conditions are explained better by the characteristics of the workforce in zone industries ( mainly young women ) , than by their location or the ownership of the plants . |
| 12 | Here the paintings of Futurists such as Boccioni 's ‘ Riot ’ in the gallery and Russolo 's ‘ Revolt ’ are recalled both by the subject and the organisation of forms which implies a melée but which is itself carefully constructed . |
| 13 | All physical phenomena consisting of particles or energy are formed ultimately by the vibrating , ever changing activity of universal energy or consciousness . |
| 14 | We show that the main early and late promoters from the Bacillus subtilis phage φ29 form unstable open complexes that are stabilized either by the formation of the first phosphodiester bond between the initiating nucleoside triphosphates or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 15 | These promoters give rise to unstable open complexes that are sensitive to a short heparin challenge , and are stabilized either by the addition of the first two initiating NTPs ( leading to the formation of an initiated complex ) , or by DNA supercoiling ( 8–10 ) . |
| 16 | Namely , they form unstable open complexes with the vegetative RNA polymerase that are stabilized either by the first NTPs , that allow the formation of an initiated complex , or by DNA supercoiling . |
| 17 | Before you are carried away by the possibilities of information manipulation for its own sake it is worth taking a step back and examining how much more than the pen , paper and adding machine you really need . |
| 18 | Perhaps they are carried eastwards by the Gulf Stream in spite of anything they themselves may do . |
| 19 | The bulges and indentations are carried downstream by the flow . |
| 20 | The pleasures of driving our GTi are equalled only by the irritations . |
| 21 | News : In the UK the major news programmes are organised nationally by the BBC and ITN ( Independent Television News ) . |
| 22 | Females are attracted only by the song , as can be demonstrated by putting out a loudspeaker broadcasting the tape-recording song of a male cricket : females of that species will approach it . |
| 23 | People are attracted more by the larger towns which ‘ take off ’ , growing rapidly in size . |
| 24 | For the most part they are confined there by the same spell which draws the magic to Ulthuan , but some things manage to find their way down to ravage the lands below . |
| 25 | We can certainly agree that coal sales are dominated today by the contracts between the generating companies and British Coal . |
| 26 | Clower referred to magnitudes such as as ‘ notional ’ quantities in the sense that firms , if they are constrained only by the parameters of their production function and a given real wage rate , w 1 , would ideally like to supply output and demand labour services . |
| 27 | Statutory undertakers wishing to carry out development which is neither ‘ permitted development ’ nor authorised by a government department have to apply for planning permission to the local planning authority in the normal way , but in the case of ‘ operational land ’ appeals are considered jointly by the secretary of state and the ‘ appropriate minister ’ . |
| 28 | The office will tap into the agencies responsible for important programmes , such as Interreg , STRIDE , PRISMA and Telematique to ensure that Northern Ireland 's needs are considered fully by the Commission . |
| 29 | But as the vote is a foregone conclusion ( in outcome , if not in numbers ) , debates tend to be formalized occasions and , apart from the opening and the winding-up speeches , are attended only by the handful of MPs who wish to speak . |
| 30 | At the scale of a single cell , molecules move from place to place by diffusion , although even at this scale larger objects like chromosomes and vacuoles are moved actively by the contraction of fibres called microtubules . |