Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] by some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 2 | This has been assisted by some former colonial possessions in Africa maintaining strong economic , financial and trading relationships with France . |
| 3 | THE SEX APPEAL of Ian McShane , the leathery-voiced star of Lovejoy , has been questioned by some male critics recently . |
| 4 | The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 . |
| 5 | Locomotives and the routes themselves have always attracted authors in profusion but in recent years that trend has been punctuated by some useful and illuminating titles on passenger and freight vehicles . |
| 6 | His capitulation has been condemned by some comfortable historians , unthreatened by a London mob and remote from Stapledon 's horrifying end . |
| 7 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 8 | Nithard 's statement that they waited , as agreed , until 8 a.m. before joining battle , has been rejected by some modern historians , who think that Charles and Louis instead swooped before 8 on Lothar 's sleeping camp . |
| 9 | She tells me that her son has been influenced by some flighty little English madam to renege on his own responsibilities in order to give her a conducted tour of Copenhagen . ’ |
| 10 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 11 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 12 | One of the most promising directions , which has been pursued by some large advertising agencies , and which has been extensively talked about , is so-called ‘ lifestyle ’ research . |
| 13 | The reasoning of the courts in denying employee status to agency workers has been criticised by some academic lawyers as a failure to accept the reality of their objective situation.2 Equally important is the fact that in some cases the operations of " agencies " and " works contractors " are virtually identical . |
| 14 | The campaign has been denounced by some leftwing union activists as a diversion from the need for industrial action . |
| 15 | True , the credibility of the direct sales channel has been undermined by some spectacular bankruptcies , most notably those of Olympic Technology — which sunk with debts of over £4 million — and Ti'ko , which went down owing close to £2 million . |
| 16 | Surmounted by a slender clock-tower , which summoned the Belgian bourgeoisie to rendezvous with the trains as surely as any muezzin summoning the faithful to prayer , it looks for all the world as if it has been transported by some mischievous jinn on a magic carpet . |
| 17 | Huckleberry Finn has been proscribed by some American libraries because of its repeated use of the word nigger , even though it was written more than 100 years ago , it was set in the Deep South , and a central purpose of the novel was to challenge prejudices about the black man . |
| 18 | The proposal has been welcomed by some local councillors . |
| 19 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 20 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 21 | At the time I thought little more about it , but later I realized that it must have been caused by some powerful pain-killing drug . |
| 22 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 23 | Its tally of 184,445 was its highest ever and it is likely that the personal vote for John Hume , its leader , in Foyle , and the conversion of Eddie McGrady 's marginal in South Down to a 600-plus majority , will have been boosted by some Protestant crossover . |
| 24 | Installing an electronic publishing system can bring substantial benefits but it can equally bring headaches that would have been avoided by some simple preliminary investigations . |
| 25 | ‘ Well sir , we figured that the beer mats might have been stolen by some rival bar-owner . |
| 26 | We can now turn right to the other end of the book , where there should be another paste-down and free endpaper , though in earlier books the latter will often be missing , having been appropriated by some seventeenth or eighteenth century housewife as a shopping list or for copying a cooking recipe . |
| 27 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 28 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 29 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 30 | The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues . |