Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] by some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the glass plates were treated by some arcane process that froze the light that passed through them ? |
| 2 | On Monday 10 October ‘ General ’ Forster 's little army reached Morpeth and were joined by some well-off Scots , riding their own horses , from across the Border , swelling their numbers to 300 but , lacking arms , Forster was unable to accept the volunteers who flooded in offering to serve as infantry . |
| 3 | This practice was not adopted enthusiastically by the LGB , partly due to fears that its cheapness would encourage Guardians to send children to unsuitable homes — fears which were justified by some unfortunate and tragic incidents of maltreatment and exploitation of child labour . |
| 4 | But it is out of respect for your views , Mr Lewis , that I feel one should not simply cast them to one side as though they were uttered by some soap-box eccentric . |
| 5 | John Regis , my arch rival at 200 metres , was walking home with some friends late one night when they were attacked by some white men who were obviously extremely drunk . |
| 6 | You were expected by some telepathic way to know where to go , what to do . |
| 7 | Banbridge started the second half in more determined mood and forced Bangor back and the home side were rattled by some excellent play by the visitors . |
| 8 | Perhaps we were selected by some mysterious computer which recorded the fact that we have each served a 17-year sentence — mine on the Back Benches , his in the Cabinet . |
| 9 | Although it is a difficult route to ascend by , we reached the summit and were rewarded by some spectacular views . |
| 10 | To pursue the point , although it is normal for regulated companies and publicly owned companies to face little competition , if they were replaced by some other structure it is not clear that competition would develop . |
| 11 | I do not believe that it would be lawful unless it were underpinned by some appropriate resolution of the Security Council of the United Nations . |
| 12 | There were many reservations about Reagan , too , but these were offset by some notable strengths . |
| 13 | Usually the burials were accompanied by some personal grave-goods , such as a sealstone or a metal signet ring , but they were also usually robbed soon afterwards . |
| 14 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 15 | Gloucestershire were undone by some fine bowling from Somerset 's Andrew Caddick who took a career-best six wickets for thirty runs . |
| 16 | The prejudice was compounded by some foster parents who had a bias against education : |
| 17 | The most influential view is that expressed by a report for the OECD , which sees the intensifying economic difficulties of these years as resulting from ‘ an unusual bunching of unfortunate disturbances unlikely to be repeated on the same scale , the impact of which was compounded by some avoidable errors in economic policy ’ ( McCracken , 1977 , p. 14 ) . |
| 18 | I was cheered by some superficial damage to the station at Cologne . |
| 19 | He was attracted by some bright red berries on a bush . |
| 20 | While we also had Black women only space throughout the conference it was felt by some Black women that this was a substitute for the conference discussing anti-racist strategies . |
| 21 | ‘ The dance mix of ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ ( last Cud single ) was done by some local people , Nightmares On Wax , but they work really cheap and no one knows them . |
| 22 | ‘ The dance mix of ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ ( last Cud single ) was done by some local people , Nightmares On Wax , but they work really cheap and no one knows them . |
| 23 | In years to come , when the new road has fallen into disuse and the plaque has been worn away by time , people may come here and wonder what is the hidden significance of the stones ; or maybe by then , they 'll have discovered that Stonehenge was built by some ancient farmer , commemmorating a new bypass . |
| 24 | That letter was written by some poor , unhappy , twisted , frustrated man with a rather scanty knowledge of women . |
| 25 | She shows how heated controversies about the use of the speculum , which was seem by some medical men as an instrument of rape , about operations that ‘ unsexed ’ and ‘ castrated ’ women , and about the relationship between male doctors and their female patients can be explained more effectively by viewing gynaecology as a ‘ science of woman ’ . |
| 26 | It seemed that I was asleep for just a few minutes when I was awakened by some noisy bastard shouting into the trench . |
| 27 | Lithuania 's cause was helped by some ropey Northern Ireland defending , and several occasions when the midfield dropped back too far , causing a traffic-jam in the last third of the pitch . |
| 28 | That carefully planned emphasis on diversity , however , gave way to a more consistent Austro-German bias when the promised Ravel was replaced by some meaty , exultantly played , but dramatically awkward cuts from Wagner 's Gotterdammerung , leaving Corigliano as the daring odd man out . |
| 29 | A useful form of positive discrimination was introduced by some French municipalities when they decided to subsidise neighbourhood general shops . |
| 30 | It was found by some local horsemen and this was the beginning of the end for the murderous publican . |