Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has to go for some more treatment , ’ Jack Foley said . |
| 2 | SMOKING among 16–19 year olds in Britain has dropped by some 15 per cent over the past decade , according to a new survey of the habits of young people carried out by the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 3 | It has come to some tentative conclusions about the relationship between the quality of argument and computer software . |
| 4 | This can be one time when a young writer has to compromise on some immediate ambitions in order to progress on to the next stage of securing a record deal or having artists cover his or her songs . |
| 5 | One leader took between fifteen and twenty people , hired a hall , broke the link with the Cobham Fellowship and began to establish a church which has grown to some sixty members . |
| 6 | This is the most he has conceded in some 250 outings for Bangor , an appearance record that tops any Seasider goalkeeper in the last 30 years . |
| 7 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 8 | Since then he has turned in some useful performances for the under-21 and England B sides but he has some way to go before becoming a player of real international class . |
| 9 | To wake up a Woosnam who has struggled on some dull courses and slow greens recently , it took a demanding course and fast greens , even if neither were as demanding nor fast as perhaps in previous years . |
| 10 | However , perhaps the most telling , if simplistic , feature is the fact that the group 's total workforce has expanded by some 25 per cent to toal about 1000 , of which roughly 300 are employed in the UK . |
| 11 | Communication , in these terms , has to do with some general UNIVERSE OF REFERENCE or MODEL OF REALITY which we as human beings carry inside our heads , and which consists of all the things we know , believe , judge or understand to be the case in the world in which we live . |
| 12 | ‘ I do think improvisation has become like some born-again cult , like the church of Scientology , with all these golden rules of how we should do it , ’ says Merton . |
| 13 | The urgent waiting list has reduced from some 18,800 in 1981 to 9,900 in 1991 . |
| 14 | He has to share in some conservative political opinions . |
| 15 | As Mr Ryan O'Neal , the thespian , approaches middle age , his weight has increased to some 15 stones . |
| 16 | Our overall operating profit has increased by some seventy percent over the same period last year . |
| 17 | From Table I ( p. 15 ) it can be seen that while the amount of broad-leaved high forest has increased by some five per cent. , the increase in coniferous high forest has been 18 per cent . |
| 18 | The possibility offered by rapid electronic communication across networks has led to some other new ways of collaborating in science , through bulletin boards and other e-mail techniques , some of which are direct analogues of personal communication and others resemble publication pathways . |
| 19 | This emphasis was clearly crucial to the emerging discipline of linguistics , but has led to some strange distortions . |
| 20 | One might conclude that while the removal of mandatory fees has led to some short-term reduction in charges and a decline in unemployment amongst architects , the continuing controls over training places may result in shortages and fees rising again . |
| 21 | Present-day computer or digital organs incorporate new and complex technology , and this has led to some impressive developments . |
| 22 | It 's an important issue , and has led to some serious misunderstandings about the teaching of drama . |
| 23 | Travelling the celebrity circuit has led to some fascinating encounters with certain household names including two sessions with the top talk-show man of his time , Terry Wogan . |
| 24 | The different police forces share their information and that has led to some proposed gatherings being stopped . |
| 25 | This has led to some unlikely liaisons . |
| 26 | Despite great efforts to ‘ bottle up ’ sources of funds within regional boundaries , some banks find themselves with excess liquidity which they are not allowed to use for expanding credits to local enterprises , and this has led to some inter-regional flows of bank funds ( and to the uncontrolled expansion of bank lending to firms such as Agrokomerc ) . |
| 27 | Increasingly , skilled counterfeiting has led to some high street stores selling goods they believed were the real thing , only to find they 'd been had . |
| 28 | The attention focussed on the to infinitive has led to some important generalizations . |
| 29 | It has led to some funny situations , with irate daughters saying ‘ my mother would n't do a thing like that ! ’ . ’ |
| 30 | Police are unsure whether the mysterious girl has gone through some hideous black-magic ritual or whether the drawings spring from a tortured imagination . |