Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Well , fortunately , new ground has been broken by some of our novelists , ground which can be husbanded by new writers . |
| 33 | What she does not do is believe for one moment that Rainbow has been possessed by some kind of demon . |
| 34 | The main potato store had been found by some of the humans , which was perhaps why the poison had been put down . |
| 35 | She and her friend Sharon have been pursued by some boys , who are taunting Carol to take her clothes off . |
| 36 | The existence of a stable political culture in Britain has been ascribed by some to the effectiveness of government . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | The door had been opened by some sort of electric release , but two Negro footmen in grey silk — complete with stockings — stood inside the door and said , ‘ Good evening , sir , ’ in unison . |
| 41 | She said the spending had been criticised by some people as irresponsible . |
| 42 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 43 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 44 | Some effort has been made by some libraries to assist libraries and institutions with user education programmes , for example , universities and polytechnics for schools , and public libraries also for schools , 2 but this expresses local efforts of co-operation , rather than the submission that user education is a continuous process which takes place throughout the various educational sectors and beyond . |
| 45 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 46 | Already huge controversy has been provoked by some researchers ' attempts to claim effective ownership of human genes through patenting and by a proposal to set up a UK national database of ‘ DNA fingerprints ’ to enable the rapid identification and capture of violent criminals . |
| 47 | The global success not only of Japanese enterprise in the 1980s but also of the other NICs of East Asia has been seen by some commentators such as Blunt ( 1989 : 21 ) as a spur to the renaissance of studies of effective leadership in recent times . |
| 48 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 49 | The scheme has been criticized by some animal welfare activists . |
| 50 | A kind of ‘ halfway house ’ between the area system and the reference departments/area system has been reached by some of the authorities which do not have a large city collection within their boundaries , but feel that the needs of the ‘ serious ’ reader should nevertheless be given special attention . |
| 51 | Alternate day prednisone was not often used , even though such treatment has been recommended by some gastroenterologists as routine maintenance treatment of Crohn 's disease . |
| 52 | Exception has been taken by some commentators to the words ‘ Reg. v. Morris … decides , ’ but the proposition which is stated in the judgment of the court follows inevitably from Lord Roskill 's statement as to the meaning of appropriation . |
| 53 | To prove contrary evidence it was necessary to have either positive proof that the document was returned to the sender or , if sent by recorded delivery , that there was no acknowledgement of receipt , or if there was evidence of the document having been received by some person , there was proof that the person was not the intended recipient and that he had not brought the document to the notice of the person required to be served . |
| 54 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 55 | He admitted that the company had been accused by some customers of sexism , but rejected the criticism . |
| 56 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 57 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 58 | Although texts devoted to the human impact ( e.g. Goudie , 1981b ; Gregory and Walling 1979 ) and those devoted to branches of physical geography have not yet emphasized urban physical geography , claims have been made by some writers that the urban environment is sufficiently distinctive to warrant attention as a specific milieu . |
| 59 | If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him . |
| 60 | EDUCATION chiefs in the Southern Education and Library Board have been stumped by some of the questions on the 11-plus exam ! |