Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 31 | More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture . |
| 32 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |
| 33 | And I saw that the shed window had been boarded over with some plywood , and the board had a number beneath which was the signature ‘ Popova ’ . |
| 34 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 35 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 36 | At the year end the combined membership reached 308 thus exceeding the magic 300 , yet the trading surplus was only £15 , with a mere £130 on capital account , although new greens at the 6th and 8th had been laid out at some cost . |
| 37 | Moodie may have been a priest but in death his body had been laid out like some broken toy to lie on a shelf , the grimacing features half-hidden by a dirty cloth ; the eyes still open , sightless and empty . |
| 38 | While Visa debit cards have been accepted internationally for some time , the Mastercard equivalent , Switch , is still waiting to be linked up to the Mastercard/Eurocard payment system . |
| 39 | It is worth taking a brief look at McLuhan himself ( 1962 ; 1964 ; 1967 ) , partly because his ideas have been adopted explicitly by some writers on popular music but also because in the period of his greatest fame ( the mid- and late 1960s ) some of these ideas sediment Ed themselves into the common assumptions of quite widely , if usually implicitly , held views on culture and technology . |
| 40 | There are several ways in which assistance might be available to people who have been caught up in some of those unfortunate schemes . |
| 41 | Special police units have been set up in some areas , usually but not always staffed by women police officers . |
| 42 | In brief , inequalities have been reduced slightly in some areas , remained the same in others and even widened in some other areas . |
| 43 | He 's a gifted songwriter whose tunes have been taken up by some of the country 's top folk singers . |