Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] by some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was about to say , Harry , that I was accused by some friends last night of being sanctimonious . |
| 2 | For instance , if you 're on a traffic junction outside a railway station like Lime Street , you wo n't be there five minutes before you 're approached by some hotelier saying , it would be worth your while to send them up to his hotel . |
| 3 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 4 | We were asked by some teachers for a ‘ follow-up session to be included in a Q.T. Day . |
| 5 | DON'TCHA JUST love those dreamy guitar loops when they 're underpinned by some valley girl 's prime-time acid flashback ? |
| 6 | DON'TCHA JUST love those dreamy guitar loops when they 're underpinned by some valley girl 's prime-time acid flashback ? |
| 7 | But they were condemned by some people , there al there 's always condemners , are n't there really . |
| 8 | The terms were used in some LEAs to identify children on Statements of Special Educational Needs , and they were adopted by some authors to talk about the curriculum ( Gulliford 1985 ) . |
| 9 | A shadow fell on them from time to time , from his own past as well as from hers , and it seemed then that they were threatened by some evil which could blot out their joy at a moment 's notice . |
| 10 | No I do n't know , they were made by some factory . |
| 11 | It does not take the explanations of moral philosophy about the relation of our desires and aversions , and hopes and fears , to the motion of the blood , to tell us that ‘ unless they be restrained by some power , [ men ] … will always be making war upon another ’ . |
| 12 | When they inspected the wicket , they found it being rolled by some prisoners from the local jail , one of whom looked familiar to Boycott . |
| 13 | Which means , as we 've already remarked , that it 's caused by some combination of desire and belief : in this case , by Pooh 's desire , not just for honey , but to get a true belief about whether what 's in the pot is honey , and his belief that the way to get that true belief is to taste what 's in the pot . |
| 14 | It is negotiable , and if the drawer is of financial substance or if it is supported by some sort of security , cash may be raised by discounting it , selling it , or lodging it as collateral for a loan . |
| 15 | Furthermore , it is argued by some commentators that , if an attempt were made to trace the redistributive consequences of other types of government policy , e.g. subsidies that are part of industrial policy , then an already very fuzzy picture would become totally confused . |
| 16 | It is argued by some workers in artificial intelligence ( such as Boden ) , drawing analogies from neurophysiology , that consciousness is a function of the degree of complexity and connectedness of networks — neural or artificial — but this view has been strongly criticised by Penrose as simplistic and lacking the necessary objective evidence . |
| 17 | This arrangement secures a quiet legal life for the film industry in general , although it is resented by some film-makers who are obliged to tailor their product to BBFC standards in order to secure distribution outlets . |
| 18 | The second major defect in the relative clause proposal is that it does not actually explain anything unless it is supplemented by some account of what a relative clause is . |
| 19 | It 's as if he 's possessed by some Looney Tune demon . |
| 20 | During the discussions of the draft Convention it was argued by some delegates that the Central Authority should have a double task , acting as a transmitting or forwarding agency as well as receiving requests from abroad , but their opinion did not prevail . |
| 21 | Thus , it does not apply where the evidence establishes the existence of a collateral contract ; where it can be shown that the document was not intended as a complete record of the contract terms ; where its existence or operation was dependent upon some prior unexpected stipulation ; or where it was procured by some illegality or misrepresentation . |
| 22 | It was felt by some members , the secretary told me , that as I now had a residence in Edinburgh , I ought to become a fully paid-up member . |
| 23 | It was felt by some students that areas of the ‘ Enterprise ’ component may have been downplayed somewhat if there was no visible link between the ‘ content ’ and assessment ; however , more students expressed the view that they would scrutinise the Enterprise component of future optional and elective modules before selection . |
| 24 | When village tribunals were first established it was felt by some officials that they would reduce the power of headmen . |
| 25 | He had started the Venturers ' Society in 1945 , when he was asked by some boys to take them on a visit down a coal mine , and on Mr. Horn 's retirement in 1959 had taken over the Railway Society too . |
| 26 | He was criticised by some officials for his victory speech in which he thanked the press ‘ from the heart of my bottom ’ . |
| 27 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |