Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] [adv prt] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If there are no clubbers at all then any netted enemy are jumped on by the netters themselves , and damage is resolved with a strength of 3 as normal . |
| 2 | Other details of this allegedly gentle pre-war street life are filled in by the writings of youth club workers — Butterworth 's Clubland ( 1932 ) , Hatton 's London 's Bad Boys ( 1931 ) and Secretan 's London Below Bridges ( 1931 ) — which are teeming with rowdy incident , outbreaks of hooliganism , shoplifting sprees , youngsters terrorising old ladies , foul language , youth club riots and vandalism . |
| 3 | Richard Spink , of the Citizens Advice Bureaux , said : ‘ Thousands are hanging on by the skin of their teeth . |
| 4 | Subjects that they care about are fended off by the pupils with the familiar complaints that they are ‘ boring ’ or ‘ stupid ’ . |
| 5 | And all of these functions are carried on by the ego . |
| 6 | This is very much less certain when the operations are carried out by the state or by non-resident financial institutions or investors seeking to rearrange their affairs advantageously , particularly in the UK where forestry receives substantial fiscal incentives . |
| 7 | Efficiency audits have no real private sector counterpart since monopoly references , though they also are carried out by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission , are more limited in scope . |
| 8 | Unlike users of reference services or online services , where search negotiations are carried out by the librarian or intermediary , users have had to know what they wanted . |
| 9 | Independent inspections are carried out by the B.S.I. who send in experts unannounced to carry out checks . |
| 10 | The chairman and deputy chairman of the Panel are appointed by the Governor of the Bank of England but the Panel 's day-to-day functions are carried out by the Director General and his executive staff who are seconded from the Bank of England and various organisations within the City of London . |
| 11 | We push his legs but they buckle at the knees , so we have to hold them up above our heads as we push to make them stay straight , then as we shove and his trousers are rolled down by the rim of stone , his arms flop over the far side of the shaft rim and it suddenly gets easier to push him . |
| 12 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 13 | Solicitors ' firms are caught out by the housing market collapse . |
| 14 | The directive is based on minimum standards — but I am caught out by the time , Madam Deputy Speaker . |
| 15 | Shades of the Mediterranean are conjured up by the aquas and terracottas from Oneworld Trading 's accessories . |
| 16 | are sucked back by the wet |
| 17 | Stray capacitances to earth from P' 1 and P' 2 are shorted out by the primary of the detector transformer at balance . |
| 18 | Enterprises like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have a unique advantage over private-sector competitors : they can keep all their profits , but their losses are picked up by the taxpayer . |
| 19 | These then go out into the environment , are reflected back in a multitude of different ways according to the objects encountered , are picked up by the most amazingly refined hearing organs , matched against an inner mind structure capable of interpreting this data as a full and complete three-dimensional world and used as a major sensory means of perceiving their watery or aerial world . |
| 20 | Five talented misfits from Camden form a band playing the most ridiculed form of music in the world , are picked up by the chief of the record label that brought you the Manic Street Preachers — and ZAP ! country is sincerely rehabilitated . |
| 21 | Do n't riffle through papers , kick the table or drum fingers — all are sounds which are picked up by the microphone and have to be edited out . |
| 22 | The Members of the smaller parties complain that they are squeezed out by the front-benches whatever happens . |
| 23 | Many of these buyers are turned off by the sleek lines and road-sensitive ride of classy European marques such as BMW and Mercedes-Benz . |
| 24 | And for those who think they know nothing about building and are turned off by the sight of rotting wood , then perhaps this will help to change their attitude . |
| 25 | The company says the trainer market 's core consumers are turned off by the Clarks name . |
| 26 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 27 | The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash , staining the primed canvas . |
| 28 | Any surplus runners are balloted out by the Jockey Club and their owners receive back their entry money . |
| 29 | These caps are pushed out by the permanent molars usually with little trouble but sometimes they can become lodged and require some outside assistance . |
| 30 | That is , when you ask erm er who are we , is any part of what we are made up by the body , the answer 's quite straightforwardly no , we er already identified use the body , this other thing . |