Example sentences of "[noun sg] [is] [verb] by some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A disinfectant capability is claimed by some manufacturers . |
| 2 | And this is true of all actions : every action is caused by some combination of belief and desire . |
| 3 | Attitude formation is thought by some writers to depend on personal characteristics . |
| 4 | Strictly , a switch-mode p.s.u. can be precisely designed for a particular output voltage at some stated current ; if that design voltage is altered by some means , the performance deteriorates . |
| 5 | The complaint that there is never a moment 's peace is countered by some nurses who say that such a system allows for a ‘ snooze hour ’ after lunch when no routine tasks were undertaken and the ward was as quiet as possible . |
| 6 | After hearing defence submissions that the £600,000 payout to Mrs Sutcliffe was ‘ perverse and excessive ’ , Lord Donaldson said : ‘ It may be that the general jury approach to newspaper libel at the moment is tempered by some indignation at the way some branches of the Press are run — coupled with the feeling that , if you can get £1m on the pools , why should n't you get £1m on the newspapers too ? |
| 7 | When the concept is explained by some writers , educational technology : |
| 8 | And because education is thought by some people to be unique , its very isolation seems to justify the fact that its management should not be evaluated on lines comparable to the management of business , industry or other spheres of large-scale public work . |
| 9 | If the confining pressure at the surface is reduced by some mechanism , such as the draining of a pool , steam may be generated and any overlying fine-grained sediments liquefied . |
| 10 | Sometimes this knowledge is supplemented by some familiarity with theoretical linguistics illustrated by examples from the language in question , or more rarely the knowledge of literature is wholly or partly replaced and supplemented by knowledge of the contemporary history , sociology and economics of a country where the language is spoken . |
| 11 | The main objection to this point revolves round the feeling that a person can have authority , or be in authority only if his authority is recognized by some people , whose identity varies with the nature of his authority . |
| 12 | At its shortest the coat is seen by some designers as little more than a regular outsize jacket . |
| 13 | Unless the descriptive account of science is shaped by some theory , no guidance is offered as to what kinds of activities and products of activities are to be described . |
| 14 | This information may then be represented statistically ; in terms of the frequency of occurrence of combinations of letters , or in terms of the probability that some letter is preceded by some combination of a number of other letters ( transitional probabilities ) ; or non-statistically in terms of whether or not some combination of letters occurs in the source . |
| 15 | There is some uncertainty in the literature as to whether conjunctions which occur within sentences can be considered cohesive , since cohesion is considered by some linguists to be a relation between sentences rather than within sentences ( see Halliday and Hasan , 1976 : 232 ; see also note 2 at the end of this chapter ) . |
| 16 | There are arguments for suggesting the landings at Tarawa were unnecessary , much in the way the Dieppe raid on the French coast the previous summer is considered by some historians to have been a waste of many Canadian and other lives . |
| 17 | The right answer is rewarded by some animation . |
| 18 | Part or all of the aedeagus is held by some authors to be of a secondary , non-appendicular nature but others consider it to be formed by the division of the gonapophyses of the 9th abdominal segment , the two median halves fusing during development to form the penis while the lateral halves constitute the parameres . |
| 19 | A round arch near the pulpit is thought by some authorities to belong to an earlier period . |
| 20 | Self installation is allowed by some companies , who supply the meter and usually arrange a survey and inspection . |
| 21 | So with this close affinity it is not surprising that , when loss of balance is caused by some disturbance of that labyrinth-like mechanism , it also may be associated with hearing loss . |
| 22 | The fact is recognized by some philosophers who take the given view of causation . |
| 23 | Hebrew is thought by some linguists to be very distantly related to the first three languages , and by other linguists not to be related , so the reason for the similarity can not be definitely given . |
| 24 | Although the market is growing by some 69% per annum now , Ovum says that 's already down 10% on its 1991 report 's prediction , and will fall to 27% per annum by 1997 . |
| 25 | The connection is articulated by some women in the sample . |