Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These classes are widely known by the label ‘ comprador ’ though this term has attracted a great deal of criticism . |
| 2 | Will my right hon. Friend accept that the new , enhanced payments for those who take up ESAs and the improvements in the scheme are widely welcomed by the farmers concerned ? |
| 3 | The draftsman should give consideration to doing so in all renewal leases ( see Form 15 ) but if this is done , the tenant 's adviser must ensure that all necessary ancillary rights are expressly granted by the lease . |
| 4 | The powers that exist to enable him to carry out this task are expressly preserved by the Act , and it is essential to consider their scope in some detail . |
| 5 | So long as the Squigs are successfully herded by the prodder-armed Night Goblins they are moved and fight just like any other unit . |
| 6 | It was he who would inform the medical officer if the prompt examination of an inmate on admission was necessary , and it was his duty to ‘ take care that all sick and insane inmates and the infants are duly visited by the medical officer ’ . |
| 7 | The housing and the inner rotor can therefore rotate relative to each other , but are loosely coupled by the viscous fluid . |
| 8 | Where are we to account for the hints , implicit purposes , assumptions , social attitudes and so on that are effectively communicated by the use of language , not to mention the figures of speech ( e.g. metaphor , irony , rhetorical questions , understatement ) that have preoccupied theorists of rhetoric and literature ? |
| 9 | Thus political programmes that envisage an alternative form of society , or even major institutional changes in the way that existing society is constituted , are effectively disenfranchised by the current model of representative democracy . |
| 10 | They assemble initially in their own chamber from where they are eventually summoned by the Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod to attend at the Bar of the House of Lords where a Commission for the Opening of Parliament is read , usually by the Lord Chancellor , on behalf of the monarch . |
| 11 | A complete gene is then made up of a whole series of exons , which are actually strung together only when they are eventually read by the ‘ official ’ operating system that translates them into proteins . |
| 12 | The World Bank , the IMF , commodity exchanges and so on are mostly driven by the interests of the TNCs . |
| 13 | The question whether women or men are worst affected by the current high rates of unemployment is an important issue . |
| 14 | In America all presidents are acutely afflicted by the Henry II syndrome because so much American foreign policy is controlled by their intelligence organisations . |
| 15 | As with hypochlorites all are badly affected by the presence of dirt . |
| 16 | We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies . |
| 17 | Those cells in locations which are little affected by the sensitivity analyses would accumulate high counts . |
| 18 | He notes that the ‘ argument against rates rests on the shaky premise that , in local elections , individuals vote as individuals and are little influenced by the costs and benefits to the household of a policy change by the local authority ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ The security requirements for those holding any kind of firearm have been increased considerably and these are rigorously enforced by the police . |
| 20 | Such a setting , as Coleridge acknowledges in the poem , he might once have sought out to echo the mood of a ‘ sad gloom-pamper 'd Man ’ ; but now his descriptions of the sea breeze moaning through the house , the thunder of the ‘ onward-surging tides ’ and the watchfire shining out from Flat Holm in the Bristol Channel , are powerfully transformed by the central fact of his love for Sara , and become part of a vast natural counterpoint to intimate and far from gloomy thoughts . |
| 21 | Rights of way are often played down by vendors and appear dormant but once negotiations have been legally completed , or work commences on site , are vigorously enforced by the beneficiary . |
| 22 | Certainly , single-parent families are commoner among blacks , are worse for children and are perversely rewarded by the welfare system ( see pages 21–23 ) . |
| 23 | ’ Return to sender ’ clauses are constantly cited by the Government to try to allay fears . |
| 24 | As for the people , they are constantly challenged by the need for eternal vigilance and by such sentiments as those of Edmund Burke in his speech on arrival at Bristol on 13 October 1774 : |
| 25 | Pynchon 's characters are constantly driven by the impulse to locate themselves within larger schemes which would authenticate their own experience , but waver between the appalling extremes of total randomness ( where no pattern is discernible ) and paranoia ( where everything is subsumed into pattern ) . |
| 26 | A single sentence of more than about four lines puts unreasonable demands on your reader : Since Etherege ( writing in a later period than Wycherley and recognising a greater desire for a new " Man of Mode " ) recognises that love , sex and inheritance are still important considerations , which he also criticises , both playwrights can be said to expose hypocrisy rather than improve society , as heroes and heroines are constantly undermined by the contrasts created in the new social order and the codes of morality being set up which are both critical and celebratory . |
| 27 | By contrast , sociology 's more popular rivals are necessarily constrained by the requirements of their own , rather different , audience , the mass audience , whose interests are more practical , more ideological or more aesthetic . |
| 28 | A sufficient element of damage is shown where expenses are necessarily incurred by the plaintiff in investigating and counteracting the machinations of the defendants . |
| 29 | Under this model the common law and equitable principles apply unless they are necessarily overridden by the statute . |
| 30 | Several calls have been eventually connected but are suddenly dropped by the system for no apparent reason . |