Example sentences of "it is [adv] [vb pp] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is however felt by elements of both left and right to pose a threat to the sovereignty and cultural integrity of the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | It is however felt by both Company and the County and District Councils that against the background of EEC directives , increasing regulations and a more open attitude to information , it is appropriate to fully inform the local residents about what to do if a major incident does occur . |
| 3 | It is strongly influenced by Greek and Etruscan artists and happily shows none of the degeneracy evident in some later Roman work ( PLATES 14 and 19 ) . |
| 4 | It is strongly argued by Rubinstein ( 1976 ) and others that establishment institutions revitalised themselves in this period to absorb and assimilate the new capitalists into older values and older structures of influence . |
| 5 | When , in the nineteenth century , Chesney Wold finally dies , it is not destroyed by demotic jealousy ; it is simply displaced by the increasing power of the middle class . |
| 6 | It is enthusiastically fuelled by the advertisers and made respectable by successive governments of all countries who make consumerism into a summum bonum . |
| 7 | It is jointly owned by the Bank of England and a group of clearing banks . |
| 8 | The X-ray-emitting gas is so hot that it must be rushing out of the bulge as a galactic ‘ wind ’ , unless it is somehow confined by magnetic fields . |
| 9 | It is rarely retained by the organisation beyond its useful life . |
| 10 | Amos Lake lies 10 m above sea level , adjacent to the shore on the windward side of the island ; like many others in this situation , it is vastly enriched by marine influences . |
| 11 | Likewise , if anthropologists used the word religion in the sense in which it is ordinarily used by ordinary speakers of English , where it is tied in with such compartmentalized matters as church membership and a professional priesthood , then it would have no application at all to most of the societies which anthropologists usually study . |
| 12 | It is presumably used by species in which it takes two adults to provide for the young . |
| 13 | Devismes 's letter of 22 June 1800 ( see above and n.20 ) included the sentence : ‘ He is [ to the Opéra ] what the heart is at the centre of the human body ’ This might be seen as hyperbole , taken in isolation , but it is wholly supported by a remarkable testimony written by the composer Jean-François Le Sueur ( 1760-1837 ) . |
| 14 | For Saussure the meaning of words does not depend in any way on their relationship with things ; it is wholly determined by the arbitrary and conventional structure of language . |
| 15 | Under present UK law , a company has a separate legal personality ; and its members , even if it is wholly owned by another company , are not — at any rate in theory — liable for its debts and other obligations . |
| 16 | If there is ever a shadow of self pity , as I think there may be in the final verse of ‘ The Missing ’ , it is completely overshadowed by the cruel indifference and bleakness of Gunn 's other description . |
| 17 | God 's grace can be as much misused when it is wrongly applied to those who are oversensitive as when it is completely forgotten by those who are insensitive . |
| 18 | A brilliant example of variations on a hornpipe theme is to be found in Cranko 's Pineapple Poll , which has very strong , even coarse elements when danced by the sailors before it is slightly refined by the gallant Captain Belaye . |
| 19 | Rule 5 tells us that property passes when it is unconditionally appropriated by one party with the other 's assent . |
| 20 | It is part funded by membership subscription , and part government funded at present , and has also won a European Community grant . |
| 21 | It is commercially extracted by open pit in the form of celestite nodules from the basal Triassic Mercia Mudstone Formation near Bristol ( Nickless and others , 1976 ) . |
| 22 | It is generally accepted by most researchers in the field ( although there is now increasing concern over drought and climate change , see below ) , as is the three-step concept of forest damage , which distinguishes ‘ predisposing ’ , ‘ inciting ’ and ‘ contributing ’ factors . |
| 23 | Promotion , however , tends to be slow , since it is generally governed by the principle of ‘ Buggins 's turn ’ ; one reaches the top or near-top only at about the age of 55 , when one is not far off retirement . |
| 24 | The east end is apsidal , semi-circular on the inside but , unlike the Roman , polygonal on the exterior ; it is generally lit by three or five large windows . |
| 25 | Much of the writing on family law lacks any stated theoretical position , although it is generally underpinned by a welfare approach . |
| 26 | It is generally agreed by historians that the treaty concluded between Henry III and Louis IX at Paris in 1259 lay behind many of the problems from which subsequent Anglo-French tensions stemmed . |
| 27 | It is generally agreed by the plethora of studies made of the phenomenon that : ( a ) they have been rapidly growing ; ( b ) they are most common in Europe ( see Table 7.4 ) ; ( c ) they are strongly related to the upper income bracket ( Bielckus et al , 1972 ) ; ( d ) they are concentrated in the more scenically attractive areas , and within these a contagious process can lead to further concentration ( Thissen , 1978 ) ; ( e ) they tend to form a further ripple of urbanization beyond the immediate commuter belt of big cities ( Boyer , 1980 ) ; and ( f ) they are also relatively and increasingly absolutely important in upland and mountainous areas ( Cribier , 1973 ) . |
| 28 | Whether or not the testing of nuclear weapons in the early 1960s caused a significant decrease in stratospheric ozone may remain controversial , but it is generally agreed by researchers that a future large-scale nuclear exchange with detonations totalling 5000–10,000 million tonnes would lead to substantial depletion of stratospheric ozone . |
| 29 | The German version conforms to German style to such an extent that it is generally taken by German speakers to be a very well written ‘ original ’ . |
| 30 | It is generally provided by relatives or by staff in hospitals or nursing homes . |