Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a phenomenal level , what happens here can be described by saying that it is as if your perceptual mechanisms became fatigued by some salient characteristic of the adapting stimulus — its orientation or periodicity in the case of Figure 9 , or direction of movement in the case of the motion after-effect . |
| 2 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 3 | • In real terms , Treasury revenue since 1979 from duty on Scotch Whisky has fallen by 45% , while revenue from all alcohol duty has fallen by some 10% . |
| 4 | SMOKING among 16–19 year olds in Britain has dropped by some 15 per cent over the past decade , according to a new survey of the habits of young people carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 5 | However , perhaps the most telling , if simplistic , feature is the fact that the group 's total workforce has expanded by some 25 per cent to toal about 1000 , of which roughly 300 are employed in the UK . |
| 6 | From Table I ( p. 15 ) it can be seen that while the amount of broad-leaved high forest has increased by some five per cent. , the increase in coniferous high forest has been 18 per cent . |
| 7 | Hourly work effort in the latter part of the 1980s has increased by some 5% compared with the average between 1973–79 , and by more than 7% when set against the recessionary years of 1980/81 . |
| 8 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
| 9 | Since 1973 oil consumption has decreased by some 40% . |
| 10 | And the Nicaraguan experience affirms what had been considered refuted by some after the death of Che Guevara and the defeat of a number of other guerrilla movements ’ ( Mikoian : 1980 , p. 103 ) . |
| 11 | Gascoigne , appearing riled by some of the rough-and-tumble of Tranmere 's enthusiasm , teased and toyed with their defence , beating one , two and three defenders , only to fall foul of three more when a simple pass would have done the business . |
| 12 | If it had been Everthorpe , she would have dismissed this performance as a clumsy pass , but Wilcox seemed teased by some genuine memory . |
| 13 | At the other Delhi parties we had been to — mostly boring official events — it had been a struggle to avoid getting cornered by some grey under-secretary from the Ministry of Fertilizer Distribution . |
| 14 | I just got razzed by some faggots . |
| 15 | The general assumption by everyone involved on the Allied side , from 5 Corps up to AFHQ , had been that , in terms of the Yalta repatriation agreement , the " Cossacks " were Soviet citizens , and on that basis the decision in Principle had been made that , however much this may have regretted by some people on humanitarian grounds , the British obligation was to hand them over . |
| 16 | Rock'n'roll had a softer side , too — and here are the ballads that everyone remembers sung by some of the sweetest voices in pop . |
| 17 | The two brothers of Armagnac , count and archbishop , thought Grilly ‘ are so oppressed … that in the end they will be compelled to submit by some contrived method … and one can not believe that they can withstand these afflictions much longer . |
| 18 | There is no doubt that Karajan was able to observe musical power-politics at close quarters , having arrived by some malign chance in 1937–8 as a possible rival to the politically recalcitrant Furtwängler . |
| 19 | At this time in the planet 's history the human race had become extinct , having perished by some global catastrophe , and had been succeeded by their immortal robot servants . |
| 20 | And the principal point of agreement is the agreement between the neurotic prohibition , which like the taboo , is something that the neurotic can not bring themselves to do , fears for the consequences if they do do it , and er , feels constrained by some irrational force er , to obey , even though it is n't rational . |
| 21 | I was going to wear myself out , then I really would faint and I 'd get found by some kind little old lady who 'd call an ambulance and … |
| 22 | He presented ‘ … a very gloomy picture of adult education in this county … ’ : the number of classes had declined from thirty-five in 1937–38 to twenty-five in 1938- 39 and the number of enrolled students had fallen by some 30% , and all at a time when activity in other counties was increasing significantly . |
| 23 | He stressed that while the world population continued to increase by some 80,000,000 people a year , adequate nutrition was likely to remain a key problem . |
| 24 | The numbers waiting two years have fallen by some 31 per cent . |
| 25 | Electricity prices have fallen by some 2 per cent . |
| 26 | Written and signed by you and it 's witnessed by some independent witnesses . |
| 27 | Well , when it , when it is irrational it is operating either under the influence of the id or it 's overwhelmed by some external circumstances that it just ca n't understand the controls , therefore making all the wrong decisions and acting in a completely inadequate manner . |
| 28 | Further research has failed to turn up a single firm IBM Corp mainframe deal for this quarter anywhere across Europe , and the disk business is not going to save any IBM bacon either : word in leasing circles is that users are so averse to buying new disks that prices of used 3380Ks have risen by some 25% . |
| 29 | In general , studies of women prose writers have outstripped by some distance studies of poets apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Countess of Winchilsea . |
| 30 | A that time David was going through a period when he would n't fly , which was a pretty smart ploy because it gained you a lot of time between gigs , as you have to travel by some sort of surface transportation . |