Example sentences of "some [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 2 | The amounts which are claimed are frequently out of all proportion to the loss suffered but , since damages are awarded in some courts by the jury responding to the eloquent pleas of plaintiff 's counsel , the nearest million dollars seems to be not an unusual amount . |
| 3 | Trade and Industry Secretary , Peter Lilley , announced that Britain will still be able to down a pint after 1992 , despite some attempts by Brussels to bring the UK into the metric system . |
| 4 | All three of these involve some technique by which after hearing each of the adjectives the subject decides whether the target person appears positive or negative in his/her favour and by what degree . |
| 5 | This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations . |
| 6 | In addition , Joan 's uncle and aunt travelled with them in the hope of giving some protection by their presence . |
| 7 | Disturbing the Ritual : The adventurers can do this simply by stepping into the circle and attacking the Vampire and his minion , but the circle offers them some protection by the time the adventurers attack : treat Maximilian and Juliane as having 1 AP , all locations , and +10 bonuses to their I scores while within the circle . |
| 8 | It seems that the genuine offspring might gain some protection by becoming part of an enlarged brood . |
| 9 | Women 's work in sweated trades ( defined with some difficulty by a Select Committee on the subject in 1890 as work carried on for inadequate wages and for excessive hours in insanitary conditions ) , was also opposed because of the threat it posed to motherhood and the rearing of an imperial race . |
| 10 | I , I was not present , I was not present but the committee itself , and regrettably the Chairman 's not here either , of the Planning Committee erm itself got into some difficulty by accepting and voting on a proposal to approve the application subject to the provision of a suitable link road . |
| 11 | He was a conscientious and hard worker , filled with a sense of mission which led to some misinterpretation by the Whig-Liberal group . |
| 12 | This effectively prevents water-loss by evaporation through the skin , though the animal must doubtless lose some moisture by breathing , which it is able to do through tiny tubes attached to its nostrils and opening through the membrane . |
| 13 | Obviously , this kind of system allows opportunities for abuses and oppression of some prisoners by others . |
| 14 | When reviewing some essays by A. R. Orage , he singled out the one , ‘ On Love ’ , as being a piece with which he was ‘ not qualified ’ to deal . |
| 15 | Almost half of the county 's 172 parishes had a school of some kind by 1807 , including almost all of those with a population of a thousand or more . |
| 16 | Germany 's hard discounters can undercut supermarkets ' prices on some products by up to 40% . |
| 17 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 18 | What follows are some of their poems , some notes by me and their teacher Hazel 's comments ( in brackets ) on their ability as writers and any other things relevant to their work ; ‘ xxx ’ signifies crossings-out : |
| 19 | Some contamination by heavy metals was detected , notably in the industrial areas of Fife , and also more widely by tin . |
| 20 | The share of demand for natural gas should rise to some 17% by the year 2000 . |
| 21 | About three years ago , I was left some money by a relative , so I was able to start up a national welfare charity for Labradors — something I 'd always wanted to do . |
| 22 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 23 | I HAVE been left some money by my grandmother and have decided to buy myself a car with it . |
| 24 | We did a lot of talking , of course , and then it was decided that we could possibly raise some money by going to the League of Friends , which we did , and they very generously provided well in fact the whole total is about five thousand pounds , of which three and a half thousands represents the computer , and we 're about to go live , as it were , in a week or two . |
| 25 | Finally , remember that if a cold front is due in the summer-time , it may be preceded by some hours by a line of unpredicted severe squalls and storms . |
| 26 | Thus the children were being taught with materials intended for adults , and in some cases by teachers trained only in adult education . |
| 27 | In Kenya , for example , interesting and original booklets on local history are being prepared at teachers ' centres , supported in some cases by collections of traditional artefacts . |
| 28 | The company reportedly has 15 systems management packages , which it got in some cases by acquisition ( Fusion for example ) , covering such items as operations , performance , security and storage architected for client/server so they will supposedly support OS/2 , Windows NT and Presentation Manager clients . |
| 29 | The problem of administrative inconvenience resulting from the quashing of decisions with retrospective effect might also be capable of being overcome in some cases by some form of prospective relief ( that is , relief which only operates in the future ) . |
| 30 | This was a consequence of the blurring of the two affinities in the early 1460s when Warwick was a loyal servant of the crown and when his men were in a sense the king 's men at one remove , a relationship formalized in some cases by entry into the royal household . |