Example sentences of "is [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aethis is assassinated by his own chancellor , a secret follower of Slaanesh . |
| 2 | The new nations of America will never take root in its soil until they confront what is hidden by their myths and make reparation to the survivors of the holocaust that began five centuries ago . |
| 3 | Some of the ambivalence shown by recipient countries towards aid is explained by its utility as a means of freeing local resources to finance projects which otherwise might get squeezed out , but which might have important political attractions . |
| 4 | Much about its character after 1944 is explained by its previous history . |
| 5 | Similarly , in Miller 's second example , the shift by particular cutlery businesses from carbon to stainless steel is explained by its tendency to make their enterprises more competitive . |
| 6 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 7 | The reason why acquittal would be wrong is explained by my noble and learned friend , post , pp. 1110H — 1111A : |
| 8 | Although originally asked to preface Les Chiens de garde , his preference for Aden , Arabie is explained by his ideological position in 1960 . |
| 9 | He claims , therefore , that one of this century 's most important innovations in business organization is explained by his approach . |
| 10 | Fear of unemployment is probably doing more than anything to hold back consumers from increasing their spending , and that is compounded by their desire to pay down debt after getting their fingers burned in the late 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s . |
| 11 | In such a situation the head office 's necessary lack of insight into the dynamics of the individual businesses is compounded by its over-reliance on the major formally rational means of control over local management and assessment of business prospects — that is , dependence upon financial calculations and accounting techniques premised on the divisional form . |
| 12 | And the weakness of this claim is compounded by his examples , which are far more individualist than the claim they are intended to illustrate . |
| 13 | A strategy 's niceness is recognized by its behaviour , not by its motives ( for it has none ) nor by the personality of its author ( who has faded into the background by the time the program is running in the computer ) . |
| 14 | What matters is not its conformity to rules , but the fact that it communicates and is recognized by its receivers as coherent . |
| 15 | Everyone lines up in ranks , all facing the instructor , who is the highest authority in the dojo and is recognized by his black belt . |
| 16 | Rochester , despite Jane 's plainness , is fascinated by her sharp wit and independence , and they fall in love . |
| 17 | still has all the original documentation for the car and believes the 51,000 miles on the speedo to be true , but he is fascinated by its history and would like to find our more . |
| 18 | The car 's liveliness is counter-balanced by its extreme safety : there is plenty of top quality metal to protect passengers from possible collision damage . |
| 19 | Penalosa 's lack of mobility is counter-balanced by his southpaw stance and hard punch . |
| 20 | There is some evidence that sociology 's analysis of professions such as medicine is biased by its own ambitions ( Strong 1979b ) . |
| 21 | The seven pound penalty he picks up in the Bagthorpe Handicap at Nottingham is negated by his apprentice jockey 's claim and he should not be missed . |
| 22 | Thus the goodness which is associated with the good breast may be preserved and protected by being introjected , to appear as an attribute of self ; but if the infant 's anxiety is aroused by its own feelings of frustration and hatred , the same good object may be projected outwards in order to protect it from the overwhelming badness which the infant feels to be within itself . |
| 23 | After the Dorrits come into their fortune Mr Plornish is found ‘ a small share in a small builder 's business ’ , and Mrs Plornish is established ‘ in the small grocery and general trade in a snug little shop at the crack end of the Yard ’ , where she is joined by her poor father , Old Nandy , to whom she is devoted , and assisted by Maggy . |
| 24 | The sequel , in which the plumber is joined by his twin brother to fight hammer-wielding turtles and ferocious plants , means makers Nintendo have one of the most successful toys ever . |
| 25 | This fossil bark is typified by its lozenge-shaped leaf scars arranged in spiral rows . |
| 26 | Eros love is typified by its appeal to the physical senses , therefore is closely associated with sex . |
| 27 | The impact of the buy-out on the financial structure of the business is highlighted by its PAS- score collapse from 37 , pre buy-out , to 1 , on the basis of its January 1989 accounts . |
| 28 | Pont l'Eveque is one of the oldest of all the cheeses made in Normandy and is distinguished by its square shape , being packed in small boxes similar to those for Camembert . |
| 29 | It is distinguished by its flavour , the cheese being smoked before it is left to mature . |
| 30 | In practical terms it is distinguished by its location — in the seven northern counties of Scotland , on the periphery of an industrial society ; often on the poorest land in the vicinity ; and generally , but not necessarily , combining an element of communal with individual occupation and use of land . |