Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [is] [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | One consequence of this immobility is that everyone is surrounded by people very like himself , most of whom he has always known . |
| 2 | Either : she understands him , his dream of a world beyond the world 's end , so profoundly that she 's spooked by it , she turns first towards it , then away ; |
| 3 | Lindy is sharp enough , despite the fact that she 's managed by Keith Chegwin 's brother , a man who also looks after Michela Strachan . |
| 4 | When a female is ready to spawn she will leave her cave ( in which she will have previously have spent a lot of time ) and approach the male , who will display to her by quivering his body slightly and beating his tail in front of her , so that she is buffeted by the current created . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend further aware that she is supported by our party in being circumspect about jumping to conclusions before the official inquiry report to which she referred is received ? |
| 6 | Assumptions that she is driven by pity ( usually based on the death of her brother Philip from an Aids-related illness in 1986 ) annoy her . |
| 7 | We believe that she is a very fine ship and that she is needed by the Royal Navy and the Foreign Office . |
| 8 | Does Schüssler Fiorenza mean that one is inspired by these women , although the religion in which they were involved is sexist ( in which case one is inspired to act against the biblical God ) ? |
| 9 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |
| 10 | Behaviour which involves assimilation of the subject matter , attitudes , and values of the foreign language and culture to the point that one is identified by them . |
| 11 | A second problem with the idea that everything is determined by a grand unified theory is that anything we say is also determined by the theory . |
| 12 | Well , sort of , considering that it 's co-produced by a man named after a Blue Peter dog , Shep Pettibone . |
| 13 | A couple whose cottage garden is so spectacular that it 's visited by two thousand people a year are about to move house . |
| 14 | Especially that it 's headed by Mrs Grigorovich , Natalya Bessmertnova . |
| 15 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 16 | What makes this campaign unusual is that it 's backed by a major brewery , Courage . |
| 17 | I suspect that it is assumed by most people , including those who planned this course of lectures , that language is a means of communication — that this is what it is for ; and that since literature is made out of language , it too must be a kind of communication , as defined by , for instance , the Collins English Dictionary : ‘ the imparting or exchange of information , ideas , feelings ’ . |
| 18 | Rather , he accepts as a sufficient reason for following a prescription the fact that it is prescribed by someone acknowledged by him as entitled to rule . |
| 19 | But if we turn to consider the [ … ] supply price with reference to a long period of time , we shall find that it is governed by a different set of causes , and with different results . |
| 20 | The investigators have put forward a theory suggesting that the gross organisation of human action is carried out by different parts of the mind from the fine detailed planning and control of behaviour , and that it is governed by emotional factors to a much greater extent than people had realised . |
| 21 | It pointed out that it is bound by a constitution which limits its work to prisoners of conscience and the abolition of torture and the death penalty . |
| 22 | The structure of the international economy — that it is shaped by relations between national economies , each with their own dynamic , and it is characterized by one national economy in a hegemonic position . |
| 23 | The departmental affiliation of such a course does n't much matter provided that it is taught by people with relevant research experience . |
| 24 | In recent years , there has been some return to the classical view that the real wage is too high and that unemployment is ‘ voluntary ’ in the sense that it is caused by workers refusing to accept wage cuts . |
| 25 | So far in this chapter , we have examined three explanations of unemployment : that it is caused by ‘ natural ’ factors , that it is caused by a general deficiency of aggregate demand and that it is caused by excessive labour costs . |
| 26 | So far in this chapter , we have examined three explanations of unemployment : that it is caused by ‘ natural ’ factors , that it is caused by a general deficiency of aggregate demand and that it is caused by excessive labour costs . |
| 27 | So far in this chapter , we have examined three explanations of unemployment : that it is caused by ‘ natural ’ factors , that it is caused by a general deficiency of aggregate demand and that it is caused by excessive labour costs . |
| 28 | What is problematic about this is the common assumption that it is caused by , and in turn indicates , some relationship of efficiency between the object and its use , such that this is the prime reason for its particular form , being either the natural outcome of adaptation , or the product of deliberate design processes for industrial goods . |
| 29 | When Newham Members raise the problem with social security Ministers , they are given the official answer that it is caused by the number of Somali refugees . |
| 30 | Some scientists believe that it is caused by water pollution . |