Example sentences of "they are [vb pp] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darwinian , genetical evolution takes place because genes are passed on from one generation to the next , and if some genes build better bodies than others , they are favoured by natural selection , become commoner , and evolutionary change will take place . |
| 2 | Sadly , they are vitiated by technical problems . |
| 3 | Opium farmers ' income is tiny compared with Pakistan 's drug barons and owners of heroin laboratories , and they are regarded by many as the impoverished , innocent end of the country 's narcotics business . |
| 4 | They are regarded by many employers ' associations ( although lacking official recognition ) as a means of encouraging greater stability in shopfloor relations . |
| 5 | So within specific cultural contexts , the mass media are able to employ existing cultural referents because , like coins of exchange , they are comprehended by all . |
| 6 | They are employed by multinational companies which , during this period of structural change , have organized or reorganized their production on a worldwide basis with different parts of the production process carried out in different countries . |
| 7 | They are made by all Ministers who are confronted with allegations of student poverty and hardship . |
| 8 | Applications will be accepted as long as they are made by 1st October 1991 but your council can chose to set a later date . |
| 9 | They are made by human beings and if they are not doing what we want then we have a right and a responsibility to change them . |
| 10 | The Trade Marks Act 1938 , following previous legislation , serves two main purposes : first , to protect the goodwill and reputation which a trader has built up around the mark involved and , secondly , to prevent the public from being deceived into buying inferior goods in the belief that they are made by another manufacturer . |
| 11 | George Bernard Shaw claimed that ‘ Kings are not born , they are made by universal hallucination ’ . |
| 12 | As in any other field , such discrimination is an unspoken attack upon people when they are categorised by some artificial common denominator : their age , their sex , their religion , their race or their colour . |
| 13 | For them , however , the involuntariness , vivacity , and coherence of certain ideas is evidence that they are caused by real things ; for Berkeley it means they are real things . |
| 14 | In the second , nervous disorders have no effect on absenteeism , despite the fact that they are caused by poor jobs . |
| 15 | Some bad habits that horses acquire may be learnt ‘ passively ’ : they are caused by faulty training or poor riding , and no one may be aware of them until the horse changes hands or gets a new rider . |
| 16 | In other parts of the world , the same needs arise but they are met by different structures . |
| 17 | They are distinguished by various combinations of attributes — occupation , money , manners , education , power , jobs , standard of living , possession of material items . |
| 18 | If the homonyms are the same part of speech , they are distinguished by superior numbers following the part-of-speech label . |
| 19 | So long as they are stimulated by low-frequency nervous impulses , such muscles can respond directly to stretching . |
| 20 | It is inevitable that they are attended by those whose prime motive appears to be to register their attendance and thereby retain their name on the roll . |
| 21 | No one who reads such books can doubt that they are composed by those who find novel-writing , in the most flattering sense of the word , easy : the sheer fertility of the school forbids any other interpretation . |
| 22 | EPA Administrator William K. Reilly stressed that the findings were " by no means a crisis " because the agency survey only targeted households at high risk of elevated lead levels either because they are served by municipal water lines made of lead or have interior piping made of lead or copper with lead solder . |
| 23 | They are served by 2 separate bathrooms and WCs . |
| 24 | ‘ They are characterized by low boredom thresholds and an inability to work for other people , ’ thought Sir John Hoskyns . |
| 25 | They are characterized by extravagant gestures , posturing and the like . |
| 26 | As the oldest trunks fall over , they are replaced by new shoots which appear continually around the base of the tree . |
| 27 | Merit goods ( bads ) are goods that society thinks everyone ought to have ( ought not to have ) regardless of whether they are wanted by each individual . |
| 28 | So those are the jobs that are audited and they are generated by these number of quests , of those .. |
| 29 | Important though each of these qualities is for his survival in office , they are over-shadowed by that most prized of all political virtues : knowing where he wants to go . |
| 30 | The essence of diffusionism is that where you find the same or similar techniques you propose the existence of some form of cultural connection or ‘ borrowing ’ , especially when , in the case of material objects , the similarities do not stem automatically from the raw materials used , and where they are reinforced by large numbers of parallel instances . |