Example sentences of "this [is] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of female homosexuals , the difficulty lesbian mothers have in retaining the custody of their children when this is contested by the children 's father is further evidence that lesbian sexuality is not accepted on a par with heterosexuality . |
| 2 | In addition , member states are allowed to exempt from the notification requirement what are termed ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ if they do not use the securities acquired to interfere in the company 's management ; the expression ‘ professional dealers in securities ’ may be confined to market makers ( as under the 1985 Companies Act ) but the expression does seem wide enough to include own account dealers as well and this is supported by the fact that the exemption applies even to professional dealers who are not members of a stock exchange , provided that they are authorised or supervised by a competent authority ( an investment bank , for example ) . |
| 3 | This is supported by the morphology of the postcrania , which is more similar in Dryopithecus fontani to the living great apes and humans than that seen in any other fossil hominoid . |
| 4 | This is supported by the large range of so-called ‘ Motto beakers ’ produced in the Rhineland , and especially at Trier where they are known as Spruchbecher . |
| 5 | The conclusion to be drawn is that monotony is clearly associated with work dissatisfaction , and this is supported by the large number of housewives who mentioned monotony spontaneously at various points in the interview . |
| 6 | This is supported by the few studies specifically of rural areas ; Moseley and Townroe ( 1973 ) found that immigrant firms in East Anglia retained most of their original linkages outside the region , and Hodge and Whitby ( 1979 ) , in a study of the eastern Scottish Borders , found that few in-migrant firms had important local linkages . |
| 7 | In our caricature , this is supported by the following incident . |
| 8 | The effects of TPA on intact HGT-1 cells are therefore likely to be mediated by effects on the activity of the adenylate cyclase system , and this is supported by the direct effect of TPA on histamine stimulated adenylate cyclase activity in the isolated membrane fraction . |
| 9 | Lord Denning has gone further than any other judge in demonstrating a willingness to require legal representation even where this is prohibited by the procedural rules governing the body in question . |
| 10 | Practically , this is ensured by the governments being composed of parties which have to compete for votes at elections , on the basis of promises about what they will do if they get back into government next time . |
| 11 | This is followed by the binary pixel data , compressed with bit oriented Run Length Limitation coding ( see box ) . |
| 12 | This is followed by the ready display , confirming that the Solution is ready to dive , which alternates approximately every 30 seconds with the dive planning display . |
| 13 | This is followed by the inevitable pain on micturition described as passing ‘ a red-hot iron ’ or ‘ pieces of broken glass ’ or , by one patient , as if he had ‘ razors in his pipe ’ . |
| 14 | This is followed by the successive removal of the ascending ramus , leaving just the mandibular body ( Fig. 3.14 K-N ) . |
| 15 | This is followed by the statement that the testator ‘ knows ’ that everything Pamphilus receives from him will pass to the testator 's sons at Pamphilus ' death . |
| 16 | This is followed by the drinking of the second cup of wine , the ‘ Hallel cup ’ . |
| 17 | This is followed by the SYS number ( a machine code version of the old RUN command ) to get the game moving again . |
| 18 | This is followed by the development of a syntactic typology for the meaning descriptions , and the subsequent creation of parser-grammars for each part of speech . |
| 19 | But this is followed by the rather more specialist firms listed in Table 11.8 , Hotel Plan ( under the Inghams and Swan Plan labels ) , and Blue Sky which also specialised in this area . |
| 20 | This is followed by the ventilation tube only group and the adenoidectomy only group , whose survival curves are not significantly different . |
| 21 | This is followed by the formulae of the anionic ligands and then neutral ligands in the alphabetical order of the donor atom ( see chapter 14 ) . |
| 22 | This is followed by the Netherlands ( 97 per cent ) , France ( 96 per cent ) , Belgium ( 94 per cent ) and the UK ( 93 per cent ) . |
| 23 | But this is overcome by the successive production series , which make it possible to incorporate improvements suggested by experience , once they have been fully thought out . |
| 24 | Some support for this is given by the nature of the pre-Permian encountered in the Wytch Farm well X14 ( Colter and Havard 1981 ) , which consists of phyllites with micas dated at 357–337 Ma . |
| 25 | The expected value of any bet such as this is given by the appropriate point on line C , and reading across from point X to curve A reveals that this gamble is only worth £210 with certainty to A , and £400 likewise to B. Thus suppose A were to win a lottery ticket carrying a 50 per cent chance of £1000 it could be sold to B for , say , £300 and both would feel better off ( before the final outcome had been revealed ) . |
| 26 | For instance , Poulantzas ( 1975 , p.21 ) : ‘ it is the social division of labour , in the form that this is given by the specific presence of political and ideological relations actually within the production process , which dominates the technical division of labour . ’ |
| 27 | This is given by the following relationship : |
| 28 | The theoretical underpinning for this is given by the theory of portfolio balance . |
| 29 | By burning , tearing , or otherwise destroying a will , if this is done by the testator or any person in his presence and by his direction with the intention of revolting it . |
| 30 | In England and Wales this is done by the coroner 's court , as indeed it is in some States in the USA and in Canada , and in Scotland it is the procurator fiscal who looks into the matter and will , if he considers it to be an appropriate case , raise the matter at a fatal accidents inquiry in the sheriff 's court . |