Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The benefits of technology transfer are widely recognised by government . |
| 2 | One problem that is more commonly encountered in the Z3 than in the Z1 or Z2 Carbonates , is that the sediments are widely affected by cementation and replacement by halite . |
| 3 | More recent authority has however expressed the view that planning law is of a ‘ public character , ’ and that the courts should not introduce private law principles unless these are expressly authorised by parliament or are necessary to give effect to the legislative purpose . |
| 4 | This domination of the surface space by parking results in insufficient planting , so that the alternate lines of cars and canyon-like streets are inadequately softened by greenery . |
| 5 | In general , children over the age of 5 or 6 years are mostly treated by enuresis clinics . |
| 6 | In fact , pay-scales are mostly fixed by reference to other jobs in their sector rather than the rest of the art world , let alone in industry or the professions . |
| 7 | Among the developing nations that are worst affected by soil erosion are Mexico , Ethiopia and many more African states , as well as India , Pakistan and China ( see review in Brown and Wolf 1984 ) . |
| 8 | Some of Thomas Hardy 's leading characters are relentlessly pursued by fate ; they come to grief through sequences of evil coincidences no less remarkable than those by means of which the earlier heroes of Evangelical literature had been saved . |
| 9 | The court 's powers in regard to the protection and custody of children are constantly revised by Parliament , as for example in the substantial Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989 . |
| 10 | We are constantly bombarded by advertising which recommends … products . |
| 11 | ‘ You are much marked by injury , some of it not so recent . |
| 12 | Insects , like all animals , are greatly affected by body temperature . |
| 13 | Only the valence levels are greatly affected by molecule formation , as this is where the bonding actually occurs . |
| 14 | In general , pupils ' interpretation of spatial concepts such as area , angle and shape are highly influenced by context and presentation ; they often provide cues to pupils about the way to interpret a task , and can be misleading . |
| 15 | I shall argue below , in connection with Dennett and Sloman , that our commonsense intuitions about the unity of consciousness are better preserved by analogy with program level than with program module . |
| 16 | The budget of the Horton generally puts day to day work has got to better reflect the fact that there 's a growing district Hospital , and has got to better reflect the size of the population it serves , and then also about a third of the patients that are treated at the Horton come from Warwickshire , Northamptonshire and Gloucestershire , but actually the Horton is funded as if every patient there comes from Oxfordshire , and that 's clearly crazy , and we 've got to make quite sure that cross-boundary flows of patients are better reflected by cross boundary flows of money . |
| 17 | It is certainly true to say , however , that because of the availability of contraception and abortion they are less oppressed by childbearing than they used to be . |
| 18 | Evil and tragedy , lurking in the brickwork , are apparently destroyed by fire , so burning the house down would be efficacious . |
| 19 | The Nature Conservancy Council reports that 10 per cent of its Sites of Special Scientific Interest are annually contaminated by spray drift . |
| 20 | These life-sustaining ingredients can be applied directly to the vine by man , indeed are so applied by man in commercial viticulture , yet according to Mike Woodhead , the owner of ‘ Le Bonheur ’ in South Africa , it is possible to effect a permanently natural and desirable nutrient cycle in soils considered inferior by some . |
| 21 | that , as a man whose responses are so dulled by routine that he can recall only 2 hr 17 min of unambiguous happiness in the past few years , I am not happy . |
| 22 | The Main and Copy Databases are only accessed by batch processes and are not available directly to the lexicographers . |
| 23 | At the moment they are only selling by mail order and at Woodturning Supplies , 7 Parker Close , Elson , Gosport , Hampshire , ( 0705 ) 522032 . |
| 24 | When employees receive benefits from the trust , these are unarguably acquired by virtue of employment and give rise to a Schedule E income tax charge , unless they are granted options structured so as to avoid a Schedule E charge on grant ( see s135 Taxes Act ) . |
| 25 | Under a contract of sale , these rules are reflected by the rule that damages for non-delivery or non-acceptance are normally assessed by reference to the market price rule ( SGA 1979 , ss50,51 ) . |
| 26 | Since most people have their eyes set side by side , only vertical edges are normally affected by parallax . |
| 27 | On medium-sized and large farms , cereals are normally harvested by combine , which cuts , threshes , and winnows the grain in one operation . |
| 28 | However , where the contract is of a type into which terms are normally implied by statute or by established common law rule , those implied terms must be excluded . |
| 29 | Using this method of breeding Killifish , the eggs are best collected by hand and hatched in small dishes or tubs . |
| 30 | Such approaches are best made by telephone rather than in writing and will only rarely be successful . |