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

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1 While doing this the men are supposed to be separated by some distance in order to be able to call for radio assistance and to allow fire to be returned should one of them be attacked , and for the constable whose patch it is to become solely identified as the area 's neighbourhood policeman .
2 It goes without saying that once the primary structure has failed there must be provision for the failure to be detected by some means before the redundant structure itself is weakened by continuous flight loads .
3 Servicing foreign loans ( totalling US$42,000 million ) would cost Rps14,300,000 million , an increase of 10 per cent , although Suharto said that new foreign borrowing for 1991-92 was to be cut by some 8 per cent to Rps10,370,000 million .
4 My own experience , backed up by that of field workers I have talked with and beginning to be supported by some research evidence suggests that other factors such as personal maturity and the will and opportunity to keep up to date are even more important .
5 He thought of a Socialist future for his half country , and conceived the hope of a job in which he might have the luck to be gripped by some stupendous ire of work , trying to avoid the spectacle of the people around him and in the wet street outside , which pointed out a fraternal indifference in the world that was the last perception he cared to harbor .
6 One view is that climatic geomorphology assumes that climate governs the character and distribution of landforms and although this view appears to be assumed by some of the critics of climatic geomorphology they do not cite many specific cases where the viewpoint is clearly advanced .
7 and th we used to be visited by some of their people
8 In educational evaluation one may attempt to avoid the judgement aspect — but decisions may then have to be made by some other group , decisions that will be influenced by the information collected and its presentation .
9 The compulsion to be exercised in the attempt to satisfy the claim of right is not purely or mainly internal to particular societies : it is compulsion to be exercised by some societies against other societies , coercion to be brought to bear upon an international scale .
10 Mr Ferris submitted that the obligation to give personal treatment was very substantially cut down in cases falling within sub-paragraph ( 2 ) and that a doctor was entitled to make arrangements for the entirety of his practice to be conducted by some other doctor .
11 The extent of your employer 's duty to pay for it , if the retraining is to be conducted by some outside body , should be made clear .
12 Rather , α needs to be determined by some sort of average of the values for a number of preceding trials as in the following equation : ( 3.2 )
13 Since both bodies are appointed by , or on the advice of , government they have come to be seen by some as a buffer between the state and the broadcasters but by others as an indirect mechanism by which the state can exert control over broadcasting .
14 In the 1960s , cloze procedure came to be seen by some researchers as the answer to many of the problems of validly measuring text difficulty .
15 In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels .
16 Badly drafted clauses sometimes encountered say that the expert must be acceptable to both parties , or that he is to be appointed by some person or institution acceptable to both parties .
17 The deeper down a tunnel goes the more dangerous it is and the more likely it is to be inhabited by some terrible monster .
18 He and others fear that ‘ safety net ’ losses to be suffered by some areas will cost them key metropolitan councils in next May 's elections .
19 Something like it still seems to be believed by some economists close to Mrs Thatcher .
20 Indeed , the Spanish Civil War came to be viewed by some as the preface to the Second World War .
21 The actual phasing out of CFCs would begin in the year 2006 , and under the terms of the protocol India would have to be compensated by some 35 billion rupees for doing so .
22 While the expert clause itself may lay down that the parties are to be responsible for the fees and expenses of the expert in equal shares , which is quite common , or that they are to be met by some other party ( see 8.12 ) , the clause itself may not be sufficient to establish the expert 's entitlement unless its terms are clearly incorporated into the expert 's contract to conduct the reference .
23 This has led them to postulate the existence of ‘ structures ’ in the animal 's head : in contrast , behaviourists are reluctant to say anything about what is in an animal 's head , other than that the members of a particular species have an innate tendency to be reinforced by some stimuli and not by others .
24 A number of present-day non-standard and casual speech forms appear to be indicated by some features of variable ME spelling .
25 On his own right there was an empty place , no doubt to be filled by some trusted official of the household .
26 You killed him , during the journey , paid off the cab in Cheapside and left the body to be discovered by some old biddy in Liverpool Street station . ’
27 Numbers 420 and 427 have not been used for quite some time and will be sold by the MOD as surplus to requirements , perhaps to be purchased by some preserved railway ?
28 It would have had to be protected by some sort of front for the gold chain to run through . ’
29 The two teams need to be identified by some means .
30 A planned scheme for WEA village lectures , to be provided by some of Newlove 's students , foundered with his illness and were abandoned .
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