Example sentences of "[vb base] be [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you .
2 Do be prepared for some honest advice , though .
3 I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ?
4 It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory .
5 Information about how letters combine is extracted from some source text or lexicon .
6 The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’
7 The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it .
8 I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched .
9 ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters .
10 I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’
11 We 've been trying for some time to employ as many players as possible during the winter , and this sponsorship means that it should be possible to take the worry of finding winter employment away from virtually all of them .
12 Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here .
13 ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings .
14 But recently , I 've been going through some changes .
15 We 've been feeling for some time that our children are feeling that they 've been left alone , because er when they come to the temple they are too young to understand anything which is being explained from the stage , because er the speakers , or the preachers , have to cater for all the age groups and normally it 's for the , those who understand , already understand about Sikhism .
16 They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world .
17 No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but
18 I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh !
19 ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked .
20 Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem .
21 The exercises that follow are based on some of the easier freestyle manoeuvres , but the great thing about freestyle is you can invent your own tricks .
22 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
23 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
24 If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him .
25 Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements .
26 These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success .
27 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 .
28 In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree .
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 Nurses who have been nursing for some time are likely to have reached the stage where much of what they do has become automatic , that is , carried out without conscious thought or awareness .
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