Example sentences of "are [adv] [verb] by [art] " 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 Units are loosely linked by a theme in groups of six , of which the last is always a reading unit .
8 The housing and the inner rotor can therefore rotate relative to each other , but are loosely coupled by the viscous fluid .
9 We should take care to distinguish between instances of the definite article which are textually determined by a previous mention and those which are determined by assumptions about the schemata of the receiver .
10 A note of warning is necessary here , as the Revenue can sometimes seek to deny the £30,000 exemption under s188 where a departing executive is also a vendor shareholder , on the basis that the sum paid as compensation for loss of office is in reality attributable to the sale of his shares , and they may also challenge the deductibility by Target of such payments , especially if these are effectively funded by a reduced acquisition price for Target .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 If left unploughed , these communities are eventually replaced by a Festuca rubra — Trifolium repens sward .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 The World Bank , the IMF , commodity exchanges and so on are mostly driven by the interests of the TNCs .
17 The question whether women or men are worst affected by the current high rates of unemployment is an important issue .
18 In America all presidents are acutely afflicted by the Henry II syndrome because so much American foreign policy is controlled by their intelligence organisations .
19 As with hypochlorites all are badly affected by the presence of dirt .
20 The cost of sporting involvement may not , in most cases is not , realized during early phases , but , on reflection , many black sportsmen believe their academic results are badly affected by an overconcentration on sport .
21 The problem has been particularly acute in the top echelons where the blue and grey suits are rarely disturbed by a skirt .
22 We need not concern ourselves with the views expressed in newspapers which are wholly controlled by the state in totalitarian societies .
23 Those cells in locations which are little affected by the sensitivity analyses would accumulate high counts .
24 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 ) .
25 ‘ The security requirements for those holding any kind of firearm have been increased considerably and these are rigorously enforced by the police .
26 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 .
27 The resulting competition probably causes the animals to occupy small but adequate territories which are vigorously defended by a monogamous pair .
28 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 .
29 Certainly , single-parent families are commoner among blacks , are worse for children and are perversely rewarded by the welfare system ( see pages 21–23 ) .
30 One concerns the domains of independence which are most cherished by a particular person .
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