Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [vb pp] by some " in BNC.
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| 31 | The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues . |
| 32 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 33 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 34 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 35 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 36 | The new bishop is a firm believer in the ordination of woman priests , a policy which he knows is opposed by some churchmen in the diocese . |
| 37 | The lawyer 's talisman , the implied condition , is wheeled out to perform its trusty service : a grant of power to a public body is subject to the implied condition that the findings it makes be supported by some evidence . |