Example sentences of "some [noun] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some institutions have used video to record good and bad ways of conducting oral tests , for example . |
| 2 | Some herbs have scented flowers which can be smelt before the plant is seen ; the apothecary 's rose , Rosa gallica officinalis , is an example . |
| 3 | However , it is difficult to be completely sure of the absence of vascular disease on clinical grounds alone and , for this reason , some groups have studied platelet function in diabetic children and adolescents in whom vascular disease would be unlikely . |
| 4 | Appropriate period music can be played on visits to a historic building , and some groups have staged wholescale performances at historic sites ( see Box 21 ) . |
| 5 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |
| 6 | Some researchers have sought information about this from findings about the health of offspring . |
| 7 | Some blooms have become obstacle courses during which their visitors are pummelled by stamens and bombarded with pollen before they are able to leave . |
| 8 | Admittedly , some authorities have seized opportunities to create linear walking routes for recreation such as ‘ greenways ’ along canal towpaths and disused railway lines , and these provide segregated pedestrian routeways as well as recreation space . |
| 9 | His report also noted that in order to obtain information some valuers have subpoenaed surveyors bound by confidentiality clauses to appear in arbitration hearings . |
| 10 | The federal project in Europe would in some respects have enlarged Westminster 's competence , because of the capacity it accorded Europe 's national governments to take on the world 's financial markets and thus broaden the taxing , spending and borrowing options that have been , up until now , in the shadow of highly conservative directors of international capital flows . |
| 11 | However , some animals have developed eyes which can cope with the transition from air to water . |
| 12 | Some manufacturers have taken advantage of the willingness of leaflet contractors to deliver coupons to selected ACORN types only . |
| 13 | It is not surprising that some viruses have taken advantage of the sexual act as a vehicle for their transmission , but , while bacteria such as gonococci , treponemes , and the organisms responsible for the tropical sexually transmitted diseases have become so specialized that non-venereal transmission is extremely rare , the sexually transmitted virus infections , with the exception of genital warts , are frequently transmitted in other ways as well . |
| 14 | Some countries have lifted restrictions on nationality and now allow local nationals to set up in the zones . |
| 15 | I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up . |
| 16 | Some companies have sought mergers , others have sold off their defence factories or tried to convert them to other work ; some have simply shut them down . |
| 17 | Some blocks have covered arcades and shops on the ground floor and apartments above . |
| 18 | Most workers who have studied the south and west of Great Britain are convinced that below 195 m ( 650 ft ) OD there is a succession of marine terraces , while some workers have produced evidence to suggest that the succession also extends to considerably higher altitudes . |
| 19 | Some anaspids have specialized elongate paired fins which may have been developed and restricted to this group ( Fig. 1 f ) . |
| 20 | Some observers have drawn attention to the fact that such assumptions themselves rest on flimsy foundations . |
| 21 | Yet some ideas have taken root , |
| 22 | Some tapes have built-in protection and when copied you will find the sound or vision is distorted . |
| 23 | Since its implementation , fines totalling more than £24 million have been imposed under the Act and clearly some airlines have adopted practices aimed at minimizing the number of penalties incurred . |
| 24 | Indeed , some organisations have fixed rules about retirement age and do not allow any exceptions . |
| 25 | Such ‘ feminising ’ factors have been foiled by two other inventions , that of separate sexes ( many animals and some plants have abandoned hermaphroditism , perhaps because half the hermaphrodites were feminised and it therefore paid the remainder to turn into pure males ) and genetic sex determination . |
| 26 | Afro-Caribbean and Asian children are indeed painfully aware that many teachers view them negatively and some studies have documented reports of routine racist remarks by teachers ( see for example Wright in this volume ) . |
| 27 | Some studies have used money , toys , or sweets as rewards . |
| 28 | Some studies have used marks on shells that would disappear if shells decrease in size ; it is known that molluscs can remain living for long periods without detectable growth ; and some studies have recorded negative growth but dismissed it as apparent error . |
| 29 | Although some studies have shown lipoxygenase inhibitors to be protective , more recent studies have not . |
| 30 | Some ex-students have given shares in their company in return for the use of university facilities . |