Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though agreed between the parties , these proposals were bitterly attacked by some Conservatives as destroying the traditional upper House and by a few Labour members as creating a large new area of patronage for the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | That ‘ inwardness ’ so prized by some English readers , and characteristically found by them ( implausibly ) in Lawrence , is an attention directed so far ‘ inward , that it can never come to the surface for long enough to notice how the sunlight breaks upon the edges and volumes of a piece of sculpture ; and that is why indeed such readers can not use the word ‘ aesthetic ’ except ‘ in a limiting sense ’ . |
| 3 | As shown in Table 4.1 , the numbers of pre-school and school-age children were both about one-fifth lower in 1988 than in 1971 , together contracting by some 2.7 million . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Service of documents Lex Service plc v Johns ; CA ( Glidewell , Balcombe LJJ ) ; 22 Aug 1989 The evidence of the defendant that he had not received documents sent by a recorded delivery service and apparently received by some other person was not contrary evidence for the purpose of contradicting the statutory provision for deemed service under s 7 of the Interpretation Act 1978 . |
| 6 | After all , there 's no reason , bar some weird dictate of trendiness , why they should define themselves against indie-kids ; no reason why they should be so consumed by some spurious culture to become impervious to the outside world . |
| 7 | To Methodists the talk of collectivism remained largely a political debate because , despite their numerous schisms , all five Methodist connexions had strong central authorities much envied by some Baptists and Congregationalists . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | A singing lesson where the class intoned a version of ‘ Bobby Shaftoe ’ with words apparently modified by some early missionary ; |
| 10 | Bill says it was apparently done by some lunatic for reasons unknown , but he wants to know if you have any information about it that he does n't have . ’ |
| 11 | Indeed , does not Locke himself raise this objection when he asks why ‘ one intellectual substance may not have represented to it , as done by itself , what it never did , and was perhaps done by some other agent ’ ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ludens had sounded so moved , so stirred by some emotion . |
| 14 | This vitally important point is apparently misunderstood by some of the philosophers who have , in recent years , taken an interest in the theory of natural selection . |
| 15 | These thinking qualities are retained long after the catalogue of facts , so long over-valued by some teachers , has been forgotten . |
| 16 | As Tate remarked austerely , ‘ His Eliabethanism has indubitably been too ingenuously appraised by some critics ’ . |
| 17 | It is by no means altogether improbable , for instance , that some ordinary person on the periphery of a murder should be so disturbed by some apparent contradiction of character that he or she feels obliged to talk about it to others involved , and thus gradually comes to unearth the secret of character you have put at the heart of your story . |
| 18 | Preferably by retaining the two-thirds majority , but at least ensuring as my Noble Friend Lord has suggested , a clear majority and I myself will go on reiterating the principle , enunciated by Professor in the er and also much commended by some elements in the Conservative Party and he said you can not have real effective democracy without real effective local self government , and he said that in the light of his experiences in pre-war Germany . |
| 19 | It was quite a gift , but he had no vanity ; they were short and suitable and much admired by some people . |
| 20 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 21 | He was one of those arrested in June , when Richard was moving towards the throne , and this was apparently accompanied by some more or less official seizure of his temporalities . |
| 22 | Outside a bedroom door stood ‘ the great commander 's yellowish boots with the long leggings , which , however , on that evening were agreeably accompanied by some charming little molière slippers , utterly feminine . ’ |
| 23 | In the shorter run , however , the property qualifications for the franchise set down in the act did effectively exclude the working class from political participation through the ballot box , although the franchise itself was only increased by some 220000 in England and Wales . |
| 24 | We suggest your readership would be better served by some honest and balanced reporting of real issues instead of trying to conjure up imaginary conflict to act as a smokescreen for what is really happening in Wear Valley under the present Liberal administration . |
| 25 | What we would be looking for from you is a talk of some 15–20 minutes duration outlining what can be done for public transport by traffic management techniques and perhaps illustrated by some Lothian examples , together with a willingness to answer any questions which may be put to you . |
| 26 | Although the relocation firms use bilingual counsellors when helping foreign transferees to find property , this is not considered enough help by some companies . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Since the late 1960s , deaths from heart disease in the UK have only declined by some 10% for men and some 2% for women as compared with Canada and the USA which have achieved reductions of some 40% and 50% respectively [ 3 ] . |
| 29 | After all , when you have laboured in the engine room for several years and are then suddenly confronted by some of the highest honours the sport can confer it is understandable that a player might believe he is living in another world . |
| 30 | Once at Stonham the primary school pupils get off the bus leaving room downstairs which is soon filled by some of the people who have been sitting upstairs . |