Example sentences of "which be [verb] by some " in BNC.

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1 Also excepted are certain contracts which are governed by some other piece of legislation : contracts of insurance to which the Insurance Companies Act 1982 applies ; investment agreements within the meaning of the Financial Services Act 1986 and certain agreements for the making of deposits within the meaning of the Banking Act 1987 .
2 It would be tempting to focus on ‘ video nasties ’ , which are seen by some as the ready harbinger of many of our social ills .
3 Its long half life ( 67 hours ) permits faecal excretion studies , which are considered by some as the ‘ gold standard ’ parameter of disease activity in Crohn 's disease .
4 Another form of entry is available in the form of pre-foundation courses which are offered by some colleges .
5 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 .
6 Further data , for example , concerning teachers ' reasons for using these texts , were collected during these visits both through informal discussion and through the use of questionnaires which were completed by some of the staff and returned at a later date ( see appendix 1 . )
7 The New Deal welfare state initiatives , which were extended by some of the successor administrations , notably Lyndon Johnson 's , involved complex Federal-State inter-relationships .
8 These questions appeared in pairs of parallel tests , both of which were taken by some pupils with an interval of about two months between testings .
9 The Tropical Forestry Action Plan ( TFAP ) , which is seen by some as a loggers ' charter , is to be reformed .
10 A well-known example is ‘ controversy ’ , which is pronounced by some speakers as and by others as ; it would be quite wrong to say that one version was correct and one incorrect .
11 Cornwall will be fielding an unchanged side from the semi-finals and Glyn Williams , their captain , stressed the importance within the county of the ADT championship , which is derided by some for its supposed second-class quality .
12 Change which is imposed by some form of ‘ authority ’ or ‘ expert ’ is rarely effective in the long run .
13 The term ’ conceptual ’ arises because each node is a ’ concept ’ which is defined by some predicate .
14 The consequences of such a reduction in the level of armaments ( and more generally of ‘ military preparedness ’ ) are considerable , for as I noted in the first edition of this book , if there is any generalization about the causes of war which is supported by some empirical evidence , it seems to be that which establishes a connection between an arms race and an increased probability of war ( Richardson , 1960 ) .
15 Is a hypertext to be just a static database structure which is browsed by some entirely external program ?
16 Brilliantly presented and documented , the report argues that BSL , used by about fifty thousand deaf people , should be accorded the status of a minority language like Welsh , which is used by some five hundred thousand Welshmen , and Scots Gaelic , used by some eighty thousand Scots .
17 In other words , action which is predetermined by some external constraints can not be seen in the same light as action which accords with some convention , though , on occasion , constrained action may be glossed as rule-governed in an associated account , particularly where the agency of a person is in doubt .
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19 On March 20 Alfa Kartel , Romania 's largest independent trade union bloc , organized a protest march and rally in central Bucharest which was attended by some 5,000 people .
20 Although in control of the divisional command post , the rebels made no attempt to seize the remainder of the camp which was defended by some 200 loyal troops .
21 Fortunately for us at the time there was not the amount of light flak associated with later years , or that which was spawned by some of the Cheshire low level attacks .
22 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 ) .
23 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 ’ .
24 Both appeared in the technical educational psychology press , which was read by some teachers ; both were cited in the journals which were read by most teachers — the TES and the journal of the Association of Education Committees , Education .
25 Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation .
26 The JMCs had no power of their own , except persuasion , but reported directly to the State Security Council ( SSC ) , formerly presided over by P. W. Botha , which was considered by some to have become the de facto government where the real decisions affecting the country were taken .
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