Example sentences of "are [verb] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The songs are produced by males when they rub their wings together , and are heard by the female through the ears on her front legs ; they are familiar to us from night-time walks , or the vicarious experience of the cinema . |
| 2 | If , if anybody is interested , these unemployment rates are calculated by the number of unemployed as a percentage of the estimated total of the workforce , the sum of the unemployed claimants , employees , and call it self-employed , H M Forces and participants in work related training programmes . |
| 3 | I understand that they are policed by the State Veterinary Service , but where the wholesomeness of the animals ' feed is involved , the Environmental Health Service may be brought in . |
| 4 | While some nightmares like this are consummated by the monster 's actually making an appearance , it is not necessary — the terror may never become actualized . |
| 5 | The ‘ middle-class ’ witches are dismissed by the ascetics as a ‘ weird bunch of ecology freaks ’ . |
| 6 | What is really new about this vision , though ( the non-affluent have always serviced the affluent ) is that hedonism becomes the moral dynamo of the economy : pleasures are justified by the work they provide , having fun becomes a moral duty . |
| 7 | The major institutions of society are justified by the belief that they are meeting the functional prerequisites of the social system . |
| 8 | These processes are justified by the fact that the audience wields some power over the moves of the managers . |
| 9 | The depraved uses to which science is often put are justified by the claim that science is ‘ objective ’ . |
| 10 | Er , the means to that end , are justified by the end , even so . |
| 11 | Work duties are assigned by the sergeant at the beginning of the shift in what is known as ‘ parade ’ when all members meet together , occasionally in the presence of senior officers . |
| 12 | While the men are invigorated by the fight in the world outside , strengthened by coming face to face with the enemy , we women sit at home and darn . ’ |
| 13 | Surgical drains are placed by the surgeon into the wound and provide a route for the exit of blood or body fluids which would otherwise prevent healing . |
| 14 | Provided the union set wage is at least as great as , equilibrium wages and membership are given by the intersection of the WD and MD curves at |
| 15 | No new rights to such material are given by the Act but it does standardise the procedure for applying for a warrant to obtain such material . |
| 16 | Usually LIFESPAN can be called up by typing one word , as set up by the LIFESPAN Manager , and details are given by the Help facility . |
| 17 | If the signals only vary slowly , and respectively represent the small-signal conductance and resistance at the operating point and are given by the slope of the static characteristic and its inverse at the operating point . |
| 18 | Other tests are given by the remark following 1.11.7 and 4.2.10(ii) . |
| 19 | Although most warranties and indemnities are given by the seller , the seller is likely to seek some undertakings from the buyer and some limits to the scope of any future liabilities . |
| 20 | Young 's modulus E and Poisson 's ratio v are given by The volume concentrations of the phases are respectively with . |
| 21 | In terms of this critical pulsatance , at pulsatances above and below it respectively , the attenuation constant and phase shift per section are given by The fact that the transfer function becomes when establishes that , in the pass band , the output signal of a section lags in phase behind the input signal to that section . |
| 22 | In a slightly rewritten form due to Rydberg the frequencies v are given by the formula unc where n takes the integral values 3,4 c is the velocity of light and A is a constant called the Rydberg . |
| 23 | Thus the time dependences of the current I and potential difference V are given by the time dependence of the intersection of the load line with the characteristic , provided the frequency of the source is not so high that reactive effects render the static characteristic inappropriate . |
| 24 | The equipotential surfaces are given by the equation |
| 25 | On issue the place , date and time of hearing are completed by the court and , unless service is to be effected by the court , a copy of the application duly sealed will be available for service to be effected by the party issuing the application . |
| 26 | Input or output requests to a file are queued by the operating system and then sorted into sequence before any operations commence . |
| 27 | Current vacancies both in private practice ( for legal executives , assistants and partners ) and in outside appointments are listed by the Law Society 's Appointments Registry . |
| 28 | According to the WSPA , five out of the world 's eight species of bears are endangered and six are listed by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) . |
| 29 | Harlequins ... 14 Swansea … .. 21 DO NOT believe everything that has been written about the parlous state of Anglo-Welsh matches now that the English clubs are diverted by the league . |
| 30 | Most people are fascinated by the way words change their meanings and their form and spelling : your pupils may not know that the history of any one word can be a story in itself ( like the etymology of the word " history " ) . |