Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] by some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 2 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 3 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 4 | Airbus Industrie rejected any suggestion that the aircraft itself was to blame , but its sophisticated " fly by wire " computer system had been criticized by some experts as over-complicated , and Indian Airlines staff complained that pilots and maintenance crew had received insufficient training on the Airbus . |
| 5 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 6 | It was felt that this had been actuated by some bad ( and in the company 's opinion , unfair ) publicity . |
| 7 | Here we know that the enclosure of the open fields began in the 1570s , and had been completed by some date in the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | The gallery itself looked as if it had been carved by some giant sculptor , minute details in the stonework wrought by caring as well as skilful hands . |
| 9 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 10 | It took Donna a moment or two to realize that it had been activated by some kind of electric eye . |
| 11 | Quite a large sum of money was created partly out of existing funds ( of LEA ) which were to support in-service in schools that had been identified by some kind of functional group in the school … |
| 12 | He practised engraving , etching , mezzotinting , and water colouring , all of which arts , according to Roeder , he had learnt in Manchester and not in London as had been thought by some . |
| 13 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 14 | The main potato store had been found by some of the humans , which was perhaps why the poison had been put down . |
| 15 | Ganev and the UDF had been angered by some documents leaked in late February in an attempt to smear him , and had demanded that the secret services by placed under the control of the Interior Ministry rather than the Presidency as at present . |
| 16 | But all this had been wasted by some heavy handed crimping . |
| 17 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 18 | The door had been opened by some sort of electric release , but two Negro footmen in grey silk — complete with stockings — stood inside the door and said , ‘ Good evening , sir , ’ in unison . |
| 19 | He admitted that the company had been accused by some customers of sexism , but rejected the criticism . |
| 20 | She said the spending had been criticised by some people as irresponsible . |
| 21 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 22 | Education had been labelled by some leading party members as the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ ( not democracy as political activists insisted ) , yet the lessons remained traditional . |
| 23 | However , the Commission did not find evidence of deaths having resulted from deliberate brutality by police or prison officers , as had been alleged by some of the victims ' families . |
| 24 | The whole place had been updated by some 25 years , with BR rectangular ‘ modern image ’ signs in white with black , mainly lower case lettering bearing the name ‘ New Cross ’ . |