Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] been [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 2 | Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police . |
| 3 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 4 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 5 | The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff . |
| 6 | In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members . |
| 7 | Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences . |
| 8 | The 1988 changes to social security regulations have been considered by some to constitute the biggest overhaul in welfare benefits since their introduction by Beveridge in 1948 . |
| 9 | She and her friend Sharon have been pursued by some boys , who are taunting Carol to take her clothes off . |
| 10 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 11 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him . |
| 14 | EDUCATION chiefs in the Southern Education and Library Board have been stumped by some of the questions on the 11-plus exam ! |
| 15 | More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries . |
| 16 | These will only be changed if the chemical composition is such as to ease crystallization or if the chains have been oriented by some means so that considerable anisotropy is present . |
| 17 | Low values have been attributed by some authors to a preclinical effect of the tumour , others have shown that the lowered values predate the detection of cancer by at east five years . |
| 18 | The influences upon humans of the planets , moon , and factors such as magnetic fields , atmospheric pressure , and cosmic rays have been imagined by some , including lovers , astrologers and those who , in the past , have diagnosed types of ‘ lunacy ’ . |