Example sentences of "has [be] [adv] [vb pp] by some " in BNC.

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1 In parts of Britain , particularly in parts of Wales , second home ownership has been fiercely contested by some locals , but it is hard to judge whether such opposition is justified .
2 The report , undertaken by independent scientists at the request of the International Atomic Energy Agency and other UN bodies , has been fiercely criticized by some environmentalists and also by officials in the Ukraine and Belorussia — the regions worst affected by the accident .
3 Nevertheless , a radical editorial reorganization called the Bradshaw shift , involving the moving of fragment VII as one large block back to the end of fragment II , with these fragments then relabelled groups B2 and B1 respectively , has been eagerly accepted by some editors and critics since the nineteenth century , wishing to solve thereby certain anomalies in the ordering of named places that the pilgrims would pass on their road to Canterbury .
4 In Russia , on the other hand , commanders such as Rumyantsev and Suvorov had developed to a high pitch of effectiveness by the end of this period the more aggressive method of attack in column with the bayonet ( though the contrast between Russian and West European tactics has been greatly exaggerated by some Soviet historians ) .
5 The ambit of the Act has been further expanded by some of the decisions on it .
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