Example sentences of "are [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few guests who are invited to a midweek ceremony may not be able to leave work early , are delayed by rush hour traffic , or have to return home to change their clothes , and therefore they reach the reception after it has started . |
| 2 | The complaint of Admiral Vernon , in a parliamentary speech of 1749 , that ‘ our fleets , which are defrauded by injustice , are first manned by violence and maintained by cruelty ’ , was substantially justified . |
| 3 | Annual rate bills are calculated by reference to rateable values and the rate multiplier . |
| 4 | These are calculated by reference to the regulations and allowance is made for dependants , income tax , national insurance , housing costs , and work expenses . |
| 5 | Gains on property disposals are calculated by reference to historical net book value to the Group . |
| 6 | Our charges are calculated by reference to an hourly rate . |
| 7 | Foundationalists suppose that there are two sorts of justification , and that the inferentially justified beliefs are justified by appeal to the non-inferentially justified ones . |
| 8 | Moreover , some topics are placed by law within the ( co-determination ) jurisdiction of the works council , a formally union-independent system of interest representation in which all eligible employees may vote and stand for election regardless of union membership . |
| 9 | A similar problem may arise where orders are placed by telephone , or at trade fairs , over lunch and so on . |
| 10 | When using the direct method , tesserae are placed by hand into a layer of fresh mortar spread in small patches across the hardened , penultimate , mortar layer , ( hence the possibility of guidelines , see above ) . |
| 11 | In a nation where rank is everything , and everything is ranked , these ‘ yuppiewhites ’ are placed by Japanese at the top of the gaijin pecking order . |
| 12 | The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved . |
| 13 | In the vicinity of the z axis they are given by eqn ( 3.65 ) . |
| 14 | The covector components are given by eqn ( 5.5 ) for two dimensions : . |
| 15 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |
| 16 | The constant attention we are given by East Hampshire District council is totally unacceptable . |
| 17 | Under a trust for sale the trustees obviously can sell , and they are given by statute a discretionary power to retain . |
| 18 | To create a Chebyshev filter , equation ( 12.22 ) shows that the poles of must be arranged to satisfy Making the helpful substitution so that the required condition ( 12.27 ) becomes or on equating real and imaginary parts Since can not be zero , and and it follows that the poles of are given by equation ( 12.28 ) subject to the two conditions where p is any integer ( positive or negative ) including zero , and Of course , the poles can also be obtained through similar substitution for rather than . |
| 19 | It is the intention of the National President to ensure that the business sessions are completed by lunchtime , if not before , thus leaving the delegates with the afternoon free . |
| 20 | They are completed by hand by the scientist at or near the time of the work being recorded and form a chronological , step by step log of what was planned , what was done and the results gained . |
| 21 | It seems unlikely that an intrauterine device would suppress the symptoms of endometriosis , and we suspect that many women with a device who develop the clinical features of endometriosis ( pain , bleeding , palpable pelvic masses ) are treated by removal of the device rather than by laparoscopy or laparotomy . |
| 22 | With regard to intrauterine devices we suggest that in some women developing endometriosis while using them the disease goes unrecognised and they are treated by removal of the device . |
| 23 | Around a third of haemophiliacs are treated by health specialists in the Oxford Region . |
| 24 | Such tasks are undertaken by research workers in many fields of industry . |
| 25 | At the centre one can clearly see the bulge of the Milky Way extending above and below the flat disk of the Milky Way , which is reddened by galactic dust in the same way that sunsets are reddened by dust in the atmosphere . |
| 26 | These are listed by Nan Fairbrother as follows : |
| 27 | Entries are listed by manufacturer and then sub-type/designation . |
| 28 | When the modern High Court of Justice was constituted as a superior court of record by the Judicature Act 1873 , by section 16 of that Act the jurisdiction of a large number of existing courts , which are listed by name , was transferred to and vested in the new High Court . |
| 29 | The dead are listed by regiment , then by rank and then alphabetically - nothing disordered here . |
| 30 | These are listed by District , and located on the map on the back cover . |