Example sentences of "[verb] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a conversion experience , ’ he says , ‘ I had seen his carvings in a vague sort of way already [ Esterly was then a post-graduate student at Cambridge and surrounded by some of Gibbons ' best work ] but I found myself looking at them there in St James 's as if for the first time . |
| 2 | David Damiani has an old photograph of him , a slightly pompous-looking man in a top hat surrounded by some Jerusalem worthies and an Englishman or two . |
| 3 | The centre section was surrounded by some forty or fifty high desks staffed by representatives of member traders . |
| 4 | Already suffering from physical ailment , and surrounded by some marvellous women who took it in turns to look after him in the evening of his life , he was a fount of ideas and vision . |
| 5 | The route takes you several miles from any habitation , unbridged burns and rivers have to be crossed during its length and you will find yourself surrounded by some of the most delectable mountains . |
| 6 | The issue of employment for mothers , and especially mothers of young children , is surrounded by some ambiguity both in policy and in popular attitudes ( Brown , 1989 ; Brannen and Moss , 1991 ) . |
| 7 | In the shopping mall you can see these employees , working alone for little more than the minimum wage , surrounded by some of the world 's most sophisticated monitoring systems . |
| 8 | That believes that local councils should operate services , should do it at the dictate of the department of the environment and indeed it 's regrettable that we are surrounded by some local authorities who feel that their world is precisely that . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She was attacked by some of the more irreconcilable young Quakers for betraying the spirit of absolutism by helping the authorities in the administration of the Military Service Act and turning the NCF into ‘ a society for the prevention of cruelty to conscientious objectors . ’ |
| 11 | Thus it fell to one of the rank-and-file to make a lucky find that brought them at last to the downs : and probably saved a life or two ; for they could hardly have spent the night in the open , either on or under the hill , without being attacked by some enemy or other . |
| 12 | Though agreed between the parties , these proposals were bitterly attacked by some Conservatives as destroying the traditional upper House and by a few Labour members as creating a large new area of patronage for the Prime Minister . |
| 13 | As the week-long election campaign got under way , a base of the exiled opposition movement , the Mojahedin-e Khalq ( " People 's Combatants " ) , at Ashraf , Iraq , was attacked by some 10 Iranian airforce bombers on the morning of April 5 . |
| 14 | She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems . |
| 15 | No , it got attacked by some crows , they bit it |
| 16 | As with Creature Comforts , Lowe Howard-Spink 's work for Tesco , which won the campaign of the year in services , was deemed by some to be beyond its first flush of freshness , but its impact on consumer perceptions continues to impress . |
| 17 | There kissing was deemed by some in positions of authority to be ‘ unclean , immodest , indecorous , ungraceful and likely to spread disease ’ . |
| 18 | For some roles , younger people are deemed by some quarters as more suitable , just as in the theatre a certain role will require a certain age range to portray it . |
| 19 | Hence it was reluctant to take the unpopular measures deemed by some to be necessary to tackle Britain 's long-term problems . |
| 20 | Oil demand in Europe will probably fall by some 7% between 1983 and the end of the century , reducing its share of total energy consumption from 48% in 1983 to 35% in the year 2000 . |
| 21 | Coupled with a down-turn in North Sea exploration which affected some areas of our business , this meant profits rose by some 10 per cent , whilst our turnover of £203.6 million increased by 17 per cent . |
| 22 | Both rose by some 4 per cent of GDP . |
| 23 | ‘ But the authorities make it quite clear … that before the constable is in a position to choose between a specimen of blood or a specimen of urine on the defendant 's claim that one or other specimens should be substituted for the specimen of breath , the defendant must be made aware not merely that he can have the breath specimen substituted by some other specimen in general terms , but that the alternative specimen can be one either of blood or of urine , although in the last resort , subject to the proviso to subsection ( 4 ) as to medical practitioners , the choice is that of the police officer . |
| 24 | He was attracted by some bright red berries on a bush . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On the evening you then had perhaps 100 or more guests altogether sitting down to a splendid meal followed afterwards by an entertainment organised by some of the men of the congregation . |
| 27 | He had told a self-regarding tale of secret arms stores , battle plans for if the Catholics should ever pervert the British government into some dreadful sell-out of the Protestants , a scheme of dirty tricks clandestinely organised by some of the highest in the land . |
| 28 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 29 | Pizan writes : ‘ When he was occupied by some task and not at leisure to present his lectures to his students , he would send Novella , his daughter , in his place to lecture to the students from his chair . ’ |
| 30 | A disinfectant capability is claimed by some manufacturers . |