Example sentences of "is [verb] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , if the reduction of infant mortality is differentiated by maternal age , as in the case of Hungary ( which is probable considering that socio-economic factors such as , for example , educational achievement or economic activity , are also associated with maternal age ) , the differential rate of reduction should necessarily cause some modifications in the relationship between infant mortality and maternal age in other countries , too . |
| 2 | Progressive Archbishop Romero is assassinated by right-wing forces . |
| 3 | What we have not yet considered is where the body clock is and how it is adjusted by external time-cues . |
| 4 | We assume that larvae take 10 days to develop ( ignoring differences between lines ) , and that larval viability is adjusted by density-dependence to maintain constant population size ( r=0 ) . |
| 5 | Belgium 's above average growth rate is explained by heavy investment from EEC bodies says IDC . |
| 6 | Though there is some additional variation in utilisation rates which is explained by social factors , it is relatively small and does not necessarily mean that additional variation in morbidity would be explained . |
| 7 | Despite protection in most countries , there is still an illegal trade in cat skins , which is compounded by continuous encroachment of their habitat by an ever-increasing human and domestic animal population . |
| 8 | This group 's inferior class position is linked to their families ' origins as immigrants , and is compounded by poor incomes and racism . |
| 9 | The problem is compounded by increased water consumption — up by 70 per cent per head compared to 30 years ago — and leakage in the supply system , which is estimated to be running at around 20 per cent . |
| 10 | In patients with airways obstruction hypokalaemia induced by theophylline is compounded by concurrent treatment with β 2 adrenoceptor agonists and corticosteroids and by hypoxia . |
| 11 | The error is compounded by three-dimensional block charts with false perspectives ( figure 1 ) . |
| 12 | July 12 , 1920 Lithuanian independence is recognized by Soviet Russia . |
| 13 | The water is diverted by ingenious and simple means , with large stones , sods of grass , old woollens and nylon stockings being used to block a channel and divert the water to another one to irrigate the land and fill the storage tanks . |
| 14 | This point is emphasized by social psychologists who stress the rhetorical aspects of attitudes in general . |
| 15 | By the same token , permanent grassland that is overgrazed by growing youngstock or milch cows and never cut will become deficient in phosphorus and calcium and may lose structure from poaching . |
| 16 | Use of biodiesel is favoured by European farmers , who would be allowed to grow rapeseed on land set aside under the EC 's Common Agricultural Policy . |
| 17 | Tenancy in common is usually preferred by couples who are living together and joint tenancy is favoured by married couples . |
| 18 | Barbados , in contrast , offers a straightforward haven structure but is favoured by Canadian investors income arising in Barbados is not caught by Canada 's equivalent of the Controlled Foreign Company ( CFC ) legislation . |
| 19 | It is favoured by Southern and Thames Water , areas where water shortages are most common . |
| 20 | It is favoured by senior members of the Engineers School such as Steam Tank Commanders . |
| 21 | Finally , by combined ( complex ) competition we mean the struggle that is waged by combined enterprises , i.e. , capitalist units which amalgamate various branches of production , i.e. , which transform the social division of labour into a technical division . |
| 22 | In the rumen , H 2 is consumed by methanogenic bacteria and similarly , in methanogenic human subjects , 75% of the hydrogen excreted is as methane . |
| 23 | Quantitative measurements show that in methanogenic subjects the majority of gaseous hydrogen produced from fermentation is consumed by methanogenic bacteria . |
| 24 | Below the photic zone oxygen is consumed by biological activity so immediat from immediately below the photic zone you tend to see a decrease in oxygen with depth reaching a minima somewhere between five hundred and a thousand metres depth |
| 25 | The word ’ privatisation ’ is redefined by Labour as it suits it , as is the case with so much else in the Labour party . |
| 26 | Let snapping dogs lie : they did not sway the outcome Whatever indignation is aroused by certain programmes , the public is not convinced of BBC bias . |
| 27 | Where the water is heated by pumped circulation operating in conjunction with a central heating system , the valve may be a three-way one which will divert the water either to the hot water cylinder or to the central heating radiators or , sometimes , to both see Chapter 11 . |
| 28 | The problem simply Mr Mayor is that during the morning peak period traffic enters the city via causeway , going erm I think erm this traffic that 's coming over the is joined by local traffic from roads leading off causeway and the result of that is that er on many occasions er we get a long tailback of traffic er waiting to turn right at the junction of causeway and road . |
| 29 | As it is , the recitative is broken by melodious solo or ensemble ‘ arias ’ , actually so called . |
| 30 | The one is broken by frequent , sudden gullies and steep ridges thickly clad with woods ; ideal , as it had proved , for the practice of German infiltration techniques . |