Example sentences of "[noun] had been [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Police and army behaviour and tactics had been improved to some extent , especially in appreciating the need for reform policies rather than simple oppression . |
| 3 | So this two bedroomed apartment in a hotel complex had been borrowed from some golfing friend of Mike 's , and here she was to stay until Mike could get her back home to London . |
| 4 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 5 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 6 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 7 | In the year since the Webster ruling invited states to pass new restricts against abortion , more than 300 bills had been formulated in some 40 states . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | But in doing so , he stood the traditional ‘ toxic mix ’ theory on its head by claiming that prison order was rendered unstable by young inmates serving short sentences , even suggesting that at Wymott ‘ a more stable inmate population might have been achieved if the predominantly young and short-term population had been diluted with some older men or those with longer to serve ’ ( para 7.09 ) . |
| 12 | My trousers had been removed with some force as my right leg was in a great deal of pain around the cast . |
| 13 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 14 | His body had been damaged by some long distant war . |
| 15 | Jitters had been splashed with some of the liquid fire from the grenade , but he was lucky enough to have been blown through a hole in the wall by the blast . |
| 16 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 17 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 18 | Education had been labelled by some leading party members as the ‘ fifth modernisation ’ ( not democracy as political activists insisted ) , yet the lessons remained traditional . |
| 19 | A sketch of the houses on the north side of the west end of Crown Street made by T. H. Shepherd in May 1858 shows them in the early stages of demolition , but two of his later sketches , dated March 1859 , show almost the whole south side of Fludyer Street as still standing although notice had been served on some of the occupiers as early as March 1856 . |
| 20 | Even in its best days the circulation of the magazine had been limited to some eight hundred subscribers ( most of whom were " Eliot watchers " , according to Stephen Spender ) and by the time it had ceased publication that number had dropped to a couple of hundred . |
| 21 | Information Centres had been established in some twenty places . |
| 22 | Like a moon , too , his cheeks were cratered where his helmet had been riven during some fierce engagement , and those craters were scarred by subsequent duelling nicks . |
| 23 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 24 | The main potato store had been found by some of the humans , which was perhaps why the poison had been put down . |
| 25 | Premium rises had been achieved in some areas , but other sectors had been very competitive . |
| 26 | The problems of the system under which the starter operates a lever had been known for some years , but the Jockey Club and the course executive failed to replace it , the report added . |
| 27 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 28 | Relations between this group and the government had been strained for some years because of the sect 's links with Libya and its occupation of a disputed eight-acre site west of the capital , where it had built a commune . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |