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

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1 Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree .
2 Environmental organizations have been calling for some time for the incorporation of environmental criteria into the various CAP support mechanisms .
3 As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year .
4 My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows .
5 Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police .
6 Disallowed Ramachandran angles associated with active sites have been found in some proteins and are generally believed to have structural and also possible functional roles .
7 Division Two of this event is probably best left to Tom Jones 's Sadler 's Wells newcomer Alyakkh , about whom local work-watchers have been cooing for some time .
8 Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ .
9 Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs .
10 Some rural locations have been designated as ‘ assisted areas ’ which can benefit from regional policy , while special development boards have been established in some regions such as mid-Wales and the Highlands and Islands .
11 In addition to the economic policies already discussed , development boards have been established in some rural areas where particularly acute social and economic problems exist .
12 In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members .
13 The marketing strategies of banks have been aimed in some cases at attracting young customers , especially the student market .
14 Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences .
15 The 1988 changes to social security regulations have been considered by some to constitute the biggest overhaul in welfare benefits since their introduction by Beveridge in 1948 .
16 Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April .
17 Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time .
18 But we have evidence that these gravimetric machines have been sabotaged in some of Britain 's pits , so they give false low readings .
19 IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter .
20 In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion .
21 Pillow lavas have been identified in some of the oldest rocks on earth , over 3,400 million years old , and in rocks of all ages up to the present .
22 Up to five different toxin genes have been found in some strains of Bt and up to four different genes have been found on the same plasmid .
23 The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing .
24 Standard specifications have been agreed for some products like hamburgers and meat pies , for example , and the NAAFI have the task of sourcing supplies for these and for all other items such as fruit and vegetables .
25 There is a good chance that further Coal Measures have been preserved in some of the fault blocks , particularly towards the deeper parts of the sedimentary basins beneath Lough Neagh and southeast Antrim .
26 This idea has borne some fruit in temperate countries , where spoil-tips , gravel-pits and other industrial eyesores have been returned to some sort of semblance of native vegetation with its associated fauna .
27 Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves .
28 Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements .
29 Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold .
30 In recent years , minor enzyme deficiencies have been found in some people , which do not normally make them ill unless they take a particular medicinal drug .
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