Example sentences of "by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ … suddenly I became free by some secret action , and now I am so happy I found your letter concerning my person . |
| 2 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 3 | Yet I know of no picture in which the mid-day heat of Midsummer is so admirably expressed ; and were not the eye refreshed by the shade thrown over a great part of the foreground by some young trees , that border the road , and the cool blue of water near it , one would wish , in looking at it , for a parasol , as Fuseli wished for an umbrella when standing before one of Constable 's showers . |
| 4 | The novel Lust for Life by Irving Stone , published in 1934 , is the most famous of these productions , popularising a vein of interpretation established early in the century by some of Van Gogh 's first advocates , such as the taste-maker Julius Meier-Graefe , who defended Van Gogh in 1906 , and went on to write a book in his praise in 1921 called Vincent . |
| 5 | the art criticism of the day is fully described in the monograph , and some of the underlying reasons for its mainly aggressive character are outlined ; these include anti-Semitism and the fierce dislike of the monument by some academic sculptors . |
| 6 | The idea that a price at auction is a definitive market price has even become quite generally accepted , although in fact auctions are subject to manipulation like other markets described by some economists as free . |
| 7 | A paranoid reproach is aimed at all females by an Amis-like figure , who then reproaches himself , or is reproached by some other Amis agent detectable in the novel . |
| 8 | I intended to ‘ exploit ’ my popularity in my country in order to impose upon my readers a book centred on the Ashkenazi civilisation , history , language and frame of mind , all of which are virtually unknown in Italy , except by some sophisticated readers of Joseph Roth , Bellow , Singer , Malamud , Potok , and of course yourself . |
| 9 | She and her friend Sharon have been pursued by some boys , who are taunting Carol to take her clothes off . |
| 10 | There is also evidence of hardline evangelical indoctrination by some protestant teachers in state schools . |
| 11 | Colonial power , religious belief , separation , racist oppression , migration , miscegenation , black politics , music , adventure , desire , passion , pleasure are the themes touched upon by some of the films being screened . |
| 12 | The linoleum tiles in the middle area of the floor were rimmed by some new type of carpet , there was a false ceiling and false blinds had been hung on the walls . |
| 13 | It is quite rare to have an accident directly caused by some kind of technical failure . |
| 14 | Finally , remember that if a cold front is due in the summer-time , it may be preceded by some hours by a line of unpredicted severe squalls and storms . |
| 15 | Of course , there is a definite limit to the strength of cross wind that can be accepted by some machines , particularly those fitted with tail-skids rather than tail-wheels . |
| 16 | An assumption remains inherent in the literature that anthropology is academically based , funded by some research organization , presented in seminar , taught to students , and then written up and published . |
| 17 | Once this is achieved — and this , it is held , can be done by some sort of physicalist theory of mind with strong behaviourist elements — then most of the insoluble problems of early modern philosophy disappear . |
| 18 | His representation of Jocasta was , as are all representations , incomplete ; and his behaviour was driven by this representation of the woman not by some physical fact about the world . |
| 19 | The lack of explanatory force of neurophysiological and psychophysical observations is explicitly admitted by some scientists . |
| 20 | Head and Tennis World have teamed up to bring you a competition to win tennis competition used by some of the world 's top tennis players . |
| 21 | Probably having keys would bee greeted with horror by some , but it ought to be possible to rationalise the finger holes . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Expansion of the work of the Court of Protection is favoured but if this is not thought appropriate then some form of locally accessible tribunal or court to exercise supervision , possibly supplemented by some form of guardianship , is considered desirable . |
| 24 | There is evidence from America that costing by ‘ Diagnosis Related Group ’ may provide a disincentive to offering support and aftercare to elderly people , as average figures for ‘ cost per case ’ may not take into account the higher costs incurred by some elderly people who need longer recovery times or more aftercare . |
| 25 | To cope with its new level of business the Great Western has a fleet of thirty-one supplemented by some sets of locomotive-hauled stock . |
| 26 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 27 | Bob is not keen on the hop oils and essences now being used by some national and regional brewers . |
| 28 | The connection between poststructuralist conviction and political radicalism is both arbitrary and tenuous , but it is insisted on by some contemporary theorists , with their readiness to invoke analogies between cultural processes , however disparate . |
| 29 | Admittedly , the politically radical implication of poststructuralist and deconstructive theory is a highly problematic idea , and has been resisted by some on the Left such as Terry Eagleton and Frank Lentricchia , and the contributors to a largely Marxist collection of essays , The Theory of Reading . |
| 30 | Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different . |