Example sentences of "[is] that they [be] [vb pp] by " in BNC.

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1 What I find fascinating about these eight pages is that they are sustained by rage — by a controlled yet immense rage against a government which could allow its veterans to die — and that Hemingway has the skill to let his anger unroll , rather like one of the giant waves caused by the hurricane , until his readers are held afloat upon it .
2 The essential difference , I feel , is that they are operated by humans in a much more direct way than a computer or beatbox .
3 There are to be no statutory ombudsmen or ombudswomen to represent the consumer , despite the Government 's admission in their document entitled ’ Citizens Charter Implications for the Regulators of Privatised Utilities ’ : ’ The principal advantage of introducing ombudsmen for each of the utilities is that they are seen by the public to be impartial and independent of all parties . ’
4 The over-riding disadvantage of these programs , however , is that they are limited by the screen resolution of the system on which they were created .
5 ‘ The general result of such discussion is that they are exploited by the ANC and others to conceal the true nature of revolutionary organisations , ’ he said .
6 One reason why people in our area consistently vote Labour is that they are told by the Opposition that the whole country owes them a living and that everything that has happened to them — the economic misfortunes of past years — has been inflicted purposely by a Conservative Government .
7 Their legal status is that they are controlled by their ‘ founders ’ , which are local enterprises and , in some cases , local communities of interest .
8 Perhaps the most fundamental characteristic of financial reports is that they are produced by management , they report on management but they are addressed to owners and others external to the reporting organization .
9 It could be argued that one reason why the cities have lost so many jobs and contain so many unemployed is that they are over-represented by sectors of the economy that have declined nationally — the cities merely reflecting national trends .
10 The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively .
11 What all three things have in common is that they were caused by autumn .
12 One theory is that they were carried by ice sheets .
13 One theory is that they were stolen by experts with an order already in mind .
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