Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [verb] some of " in BNC.

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1 The Metropolitan Museum has been examining some of its most treasured paintings with the aid of the latest technology , and it has come up with a result which confounds the hitherto accepted history of art .
2 There is no doubt that the effect of GATT over most of the postwar years has been to remove some of the protection afforded to national markets .
3 I do not claim to be comprehensive in what follows , rather my aim has been to assess some of the main features of kin support in the past which have particular relevance to the central theme of this book — how important are duty , obligation and responsibility in motivating the support which people give to their relatives ?
4 The purpose of this paper has been to review some of the legal issues that organisations need to address when operating in an electronic documentation environment .
5 For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems .
6 Donaghy is 12 years older than anyone else in Chelsea 's back four , but the newly converted left-back has been playing some of the best football of his career since his £100,000 move from Manchester United in the summer .
7 From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters .
8 My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself .
9 What I want the reader to do is question some of the theories at present circulating in the carp world .
10 Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse .
11 Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 .
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