Example sentences of "some [noun sg] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the Swann Report came to be written , some progress had been made in the debate about ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 2 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 3 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 4 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 5 | Bernard Unti , vice president of the American Anti-Vivisection Society , is pessimistic about the chances of rolling back the patent decision , but believes some progress has been made . |
| 6 | This goal is still far from fruition but some progress has been made , particularly by groups and organizations which have had limited but specific objectives ( eg the production of teaching media ) or which have functioned within one educational level ( eg academic libraries ) . |
| 7 | Some progress has been made in reducing negative stereotyping . |
| 8 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |
| 9 | Though some progress has been made towards common accounts , differences are unlikely to be ironed out worldwide for decades . |
| 10 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 11 | However , some progress has been made concerning the knowledge acquisition problem : Amsler [ 1982 ] , Calzolari [ 1984 ] , Chodorow [ 1985 ] and Alshawi [ 1988 ] have all demonstrated the use of a machine-readable dictionary in the automatic construction of semantic relations and networks . |
| 12 | Measuring the costs of outputs and outcomes has more recently received greater attention and succeeding chapters will illustrate those areas of the public sector where some progress has been made . |
| 13 | Some progress has been made in recording data on the Polytechnic 's rooms and buildings , and on the teaching space requirements of individual courses . |
| 14 | It is true also that with respect to free trade in some of the more intractable areas ( which happen also in many cases to be of greatest interest to Britain ) some progress has been made . |
| 15 | This has led to waste and inefficiency since the definition of a good hour of work is one that can be charged to the contract rather than one in which some progress has been made . |
| 16 | However , the amytal studies appear to rule out the force of this logical objection since in cases of bilateral speech some difficulty has been noted with injection on either side . |
| 17 | The Vaughan Williams has a more open sound , as if some absorption has been removed to brighten the tone . |
| 18 | Some play has been made of the fact that the Government withdrew the right to claim social security benefits from most full-time students . |
| 19 | I speak on behalf of Playback not as Playback itself , but as Playback being part of the Regional Council that can a bit , now I was at a meeting this morning where I , I sort of absolutely had to read the riot act about Playback because they do not have a set budget whether you know this or not , they do n't have a standard budget as they should have , we 've fought for this for years , what we do is , we survive through crisis to crisis , now some money has been extracted from the Playback budget and whilst I have to share two bits of Playback , you know , the , the actual Playback charitable , voluntary bit , and the Regional Council , I mean they , I , I can say that they do not have a backing of money that they can fall back on , too many backs there , but I mean really I would say that I would be concerned if it was Christmas before we were ready , I , I ca n't help but think if we could and I mean , very , very happy to work with , with anybody and everybody on this to try and get these things pulled up quite quickly , I mean if it 's forms to be filled in then |
| 20 | But some money has been paid . |
| 21 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 22 | Until some experience has been gained , however , the beginner would be well advised to use his tuba simply as a ‘ double bass ’ to the brass group , and to keep his tuba parts low . |
| 23 | As I mentioned , CPRW would be prepared to use its influence to press home the lessons of Tir Cymen , once some experience has been gained . |
| 24 | Once this version is operational and some experience has been gained in running the financial model in conjunction with the main model , the former will be extended in the following ways : |
| 25 | Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced . |
| 26 | Such a criterion is notoriously elusive , but in determining the precise legal status of a statement some reliance has been placed upon the point during the negotiations at which the statement was made . |
| 27 | Police said yesterday some damage had been caused but it appeared no money was missing . |
| 28 | Assuming that some damage has been caused , is negligence necessary for liability for unintentional trespass to goods ? |
| 29 | Some mention has been made already of the salutary effect which business support can have on motivation in schools . |
| 30 | Some action has been taken in most countries to support the survival at least of the more important communities in such areas . |