Example sentences of "to [be] [verb] by some [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It would have had to be protected by some sort of front for the gold chain to run through . ’ |
| 6 | I think that there is much to be said for statutes to be preceded by some statement of what Parliament is seeking to achieve in rather longer form than is normally provided by the long title , in the form of perhaps a return to the days of the preamble containing recitals — a form adopted in European Community legislation . |
| 7 | There is no way in which he can free himself from my control , not unless I lose my nerve or allow him to be abducted by some plagiarist , and not unless I allow any of my own present personal dilemmas connected with my own personal escape to lodge unbeknown to me in the words which make up this fictional character . |