Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced .
32 This question has been answered to some extent by a recent paper which showed a significantly higher mortality and morbidity among diabetics discharged solely to primary care in the community compared to those cared for by the hospital diabetic clinic ( Hayes & Harries , 1984 ) .
33 This has been covered to some extent in the past by ‘ awareness ’ and ‘ technology transfer ’ programmes .
34 Because of this , BBCBASIC(Z80) file handling has been covered in some detail .
35 The success of adults with cystic fibrosis in conducting their lives , education , relationships , and employment has been bought at some cost to the family .
36 She says her neighbour 's garden , always is a mystery here , her neighbour 's garden has been attacked by some kind of animal , she thinks nocturnal , there are small areas dug up from the garden , they are about three to four inches in diameter and about the same in depth , so it 's , it 's , it 's a little hole rather than the end of a tunnel it seems .
37 The ideal of privatized , familial , informal care , unsullied by the peremptory intervention of the municipality , has been pursued with some vigour .
38 Despite the small numbers involved , this work has been discussed at some length because the issues raised are critical for all those who work with elderly people and carers .
39 I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip .
40 But before I try to answer these questions , let me remind you once again that there are vast areas of the globe , where ethnic politics , however embittered , are not nationalist , sometimes because the idea of an ethnically homogeneous population has been abandoned at some time in the past , or never existed — as in the US — or because the programme of setting up separate territorial , ethnic-linguistic states is both irrelevant and impractical .
41 It is sometimes argued that certain subjects are better vehicles for a liberal education than others , because they are concerned with the human rather than merely the natural , or are reflexive rather than merely instrumental ; hence the term ‘ liberal ’ has been most often associated with the arts , and in this century social sciences , though it has been used of some science courses as well ( e.g. ‘ Liberal Studies in Science ’ ) .
42 This again correlates with the citation data for these universities , indicating that the research produced in these universities has been used in some measure by other workers , who have acknowledged that use by citations .
43 Under the new regime for companies this problem has been addressed to some extent .
44 It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society .
45 This has been attempted with some success using the gene for human factor IX , though synthesis continues for only a short time , and immune response in the mouse receipients proved a problem .
46 This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden .
47 It has been shown in some animal species that there are nerves running from the eyes to the SCN .
48 This has been provided in some detail by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority .
49 MOD-BY the module has been modified in some way
50 The provision has been interpreted with some strictness against individuals .
51 The new sales office has been established for some time , as has the computer system connected on direct line to the main processor at Elderslie .
52 This research has been expounded at some length here to demonstrate that despite some limitations it is informed by a relatively subtle and complex analysis .
53 In recent years the breed has been exported to some extent to Jamaica , Uganda , Saudi Arabia and Iran but more widely to Canada , the USA and New Zealand .
54 The latter phenomenon has been known for some time , Zwaardemaker recording several ‘ cancelling pairs ’ as far back as 1875 , which included :
55 The powerful hydrogen bonding capacity of fluoride , discussed by John Emsley , has been known for some time , but its potential for interfering with the vitally important hydrogen bonds between biomolecules has only recently begun to receive attention .
56 It has been known for some time that eyes give out bioelectric signals — the retina has a positive charge , the cornea is negative .
57 Segmentation is not an innovation in woodturning , and has been known for some time .
58 It has been known for some time that the majority of fibres from the left and right eyes converge upon single cells in the visual cortex of the cat and monkey ( Hubel and Wiesel , 1967 ) .
59 Although the link between social deprivation and road accident casualty rates has been known for some time , the scale of the problem has not been assessed either nationally or locally .
60 Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ?
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