be evaluated by statistics

This entry was created in response to a student writing:

The data from the questionnaires will then be evaluated by descriptive statistics to draw conclusions about…

By is not right here. The reusable link https://ske.li/evaluated, which looks like this, shows through concordance lines what normally occurs:

You might want to show where by can be used to make this a bit clearer. Here is a link with evaluated https://ske.li/be_evaluated_by which looks like this:

To show a wider range of verbs, this link https://ske.li/be_analysed_by can be used. It looks like this:

Created by Elena Mazzeri

comprising/comprised of

This link was created in response to a student writing

comprising of syntax and morphology

and another writing:

The unit comprises of seven activities

The first link is https://ske.li/comprising_ and looks like this:

It helps to be able to compare with instances where ‘of’ does follow this verb. Here’s a link to some instances: https://ske.li/comprised.  It looks like this:

This is such a common issue that we’ve created a further link https://ske.li/comprises, which looks like this: