The phrase "are pulled by the" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing an action where something is being drawn or moved by another entity.
Example: "The heavy loads are pulled by the powerful trucks across the rugged terrain."
Alternatives: "are drawn by the" or "are towed by the".
No punches are pulled by the Wagners.
Dreyman controls his characters in the theatre, but his strings are pulled by the state.
As the buoys are pulled by the forceful waves, they move the pumps up and down, sending pressurized seawater through an onshore turbine to generate electricity.
In its mailings, the group depicts Mr. Franks as a marionette whose strings are pulled by the "people who profit from state spending," and accuses him of driving up gasoline prices by opposing new oil exploration while in Congress and voting for gas tax increases as an assemblyman.
In Africa and Asia more than half the population still lives in the countryside, compared with only a fifth in Europe and North America.Country-dwellers America.Country-dwellersare moving to cities for the same sorts of reasons as in the rich countries in the 19th century: they are pushedevelopingrcountriesare jobs, and they are pulled by the hope of better jobs and a better life.
Several lines of evidence show that the invaginations, which also occur in unperturbed embryos though at lower frequency, are pulled by the same force generators responsible for spindle positioning.
I attempt to run the gamut because I am pulled by the extremes.
Or maybe, just maybe, I was pulled by the deep, unfulfilled hankering for corporate dressing.
"Or periods where he was being pulled by the film industry and not having time for writing plays.
"You fear being pulled by the latest whim," said Ana Vaisenstein, who has taught in Boston for 12 years.
