Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] by some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposed new law curbing this type of blatantly dishonest description given by some estate agents is not before time . |
| 2 | It offered , too , a way of testing hypotheses and theoretical predictions by providing a method for detecting whether patterns hypothesised by some theory were , in fact , supportive . |
| 3 | Next consider a unit step function delayed by some time as depicted in figure 11.5(a) and denote it by . |
| 4 | The subsequent development of state contributory systems of income maintenance , although to some extent building on the systems of mutual support developed by some trade unions and friendly societies , which were informed by a collective ideology and em-bodied the concept of the right to support , has also been constrained by the desire to maintain male work incentives . |
| 5 | One solution to the data-collection problems outlined in 7.2 is to supplement a corpus of naturally occurring speech with data gathered by some kind of experimental method . |
| 6 | By the way , I deplore the practice employed by some filling stations of having several premium unleaded pumps on the forecourt but tucking the standard and cheaper fuel , away in a corner . |
| 7 | Less radically , the fashion for making heads , arms and feet from separate blocks of stone allowed the insertion of new portrait heads in old torsos , a practice condemned by some Roman and Greek writers . |
| 8 | I attempted desperately to convince myself that what I was experiencing was just a particularly cruel and hateful dream concocted by some part of my mind determined to exact due penalty from my conscience for my having behaved with such despicable lack of grace during the holidays … but failed utterly ; my sub-conscious ' stock of nightmare-paradigms includes nothing so banally twisted as Gav . |
| 9 | This means that for every additional pound of income received , consumption rises by some fraction of a pound . |
| 10 | Most neural nets search by some process which involves a form of convergence by successive approximations . |
| 11 | Made the more appealing , perhaps , by alcohol and half-light , she was nonetheless beautiful , her elfin face crossed by a touching sadness , her brow furrowed by some longing she could not define . |
| 12 | This is in response to a need expressed by some publishing houses and employees that the total NVQ can be onerous to achieve . |
| 13 | These more strident attitudes expressed in properly speaking ethical statements are ways of being in favour of or against types of behaviour with a degree of force which makes us wish disfavoured actions discouraged by some kind of social sanction . |
| 14 | Occasionally a farm dog barked , a frog croaked by the water trough gleaming in the half-light , a rabbit caught by some predator shrieked in terror , a distant pounding of pop music indicated that the wedding of the vet 's daughter was still being celebrated . |
| 15 | ‘ For a start , unlike the first one , she 's not likely to get her head turned by some man . ’ |
| 16 | This is useful in understanding the problems experienced by some stroke patients , and may also be useful in understanding when eye witnesses ' reports can and can not be relied upon ; |
| 17 | If the next phoneme is /r/ , then all detectors for words beginning with /p/ followed by some sound other than /r/ will be switched off . |
| 18 | But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on . |
| 19 | It horrified Brian to think of Celia hypnotised by some guru who would try to drag things out of her which might not even have been correct . |
| 20 | This latter is the product of teaching which uses for its arbiter of right and wrong , contentious standards which have been produced from long established religions which in turn claim to have mystic knowledge of right and wrong supplied by some extraterrestrial and undefined ‘ god ’ . |
| 21 | The second son , Windham or ‘ Bloggs ’ Baldwin , the father of the present earl , lived a calmer life enlivened by some association with the fashionable literary world , and died in 1976 . |
| 22 | Capital movements were restricted by the use of capital and exchange controls imposed by some member states . |
| 23 | Although he saw selection as a plausible hypothesis that confirmed the scientist 's right to investigate the question , he had major reservations about the mechanism and preferred to believe that evolution occurred through saltations or leaps produced by some mechanism internal to the organism . |
| 24 | This hypothesis suggests that governmental expenditure grows by a series of relatively sharp leaps caused by some form of emergency or crisis . |
| 25 | I waved away his solicitations and took a few mouthfuls of air followed by some tea . |
| 26 | More subtly he is also restricted by attempting to set the knowledge in another artificial situation , the educational process of sitting in classrooms learning by rote leavened by some understanding and being examined and tested in standardised situations . |
| 27 | Cut-off date for registrations imposed by some breed societies will be a prime consideration . |
| 28 | Technological spillovers arise whenever information produced by some firm i becomes available to some other firm j without j having to pay for it . |
| 29 | There was an embarrassed silence followed by some muttering . |
| 30 | Dr Baly finds the only theory satisfactorily supported by evidence is that " which regards the cause of cholera as a matter increasing by some process , whether chemical or organic , in impure or damp air " … |