Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | For I am surprised and enchanted often by some quality which I can not detect . |
| 2 | Hobbes defines ‘ place ’ as the ‘ space which is possessed or filled adequately by some body ’ , and ‘ motion ’ as ‘ the privation of one place , and the acquisition of another ’ . |
| 3 | All conversation ceased and the firecrackers quietened suddenly by some invisible command as the emperor took his leave of the Resident Superior and the governor of Cochin-China ; the other French officials and guests immediately began lining up to file past and shake the sovereign 's hand in farewell . |
| 4 | The Social Democrats have already started to deny that they would ask for this help — a denial spurred perhaps by some mistrust of the Greens by their own mainstream supporters . |
| 5 | In others forces of this kind were unimportant or non-existent : in these the defence of the State rested as a rule upon armies raised largely by some modified and limited form of conscription . |
| 6 | This important mineral also fell slightly by some 15 per cent . |
| 7 | This theory seems to me the most sophisticated method at present available of conceiving the relationship between musical forms and practices , on the one hand , and class interests and social structure , on the other ; more sophisticated , say , than the theories of homology put forward by some ethnomusicologists and subcultural theorists , which suggest the existence of structural ‘ resonances ’ , or homologies , between the different elements making up a socio-cultural whole. ; Such theories always end up in some kind of reductionism — ‘ upwards ’ , into an idealist cultural spirit , ‘ downwards ’ , into economism , sociologism or technologism , or by ‘ circumnavigation ’ , in a functionalist holism . |
| 8 | It 's believed that over the past year tens of thousands of pounds worth of equipment has been charged to the council and then sold privately by some of its staff . |
| 9 | Yet some of the richness and wit of the Jacobean dialogue is threatened by its being spoken in thick Italian/New York accents — mastered better by some actors than others — and snatches of more modern speech , while essential for credibility , draw attention to the time warp . |
| 10 | I will examine both the lengthy tradition of comment on sex differences that existed prior to this wave of feminism , and the newer tradition of feminist folklinguistics exemplified both by some linguists and by some ‘ feminists in the street ’ . |
| 11 | Basically a look at surviving Spitfires , it is an interesting work marred slightly by some incorrect photo captions . |
| 12 | Allegations made subsequently by some of the children led to the ‘ dawn raids ’ a few months later . |
| 13 | Allegations made subsequently by some of the children led to the forcible removal of a further nine Orkney youngsters in the so-called ‘ dawn raids ’ a few months later . |
| 14 | It takes little imagination to see that here is a huge resource for the study of consumer and retailing habits , but if we follow the practice suggested recently by some archivists and take the network with its constituent data flows and data tables , software resources and analytical outputs as a whole , as the document itself , this is a major site for examining the cultural effect of these systems . |