Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Though it seems reasonable to assume that the ideal candidate for cardiac transplantation is one who has irreversible cardiac failure and severe symptomatic restrictions despite all treatment but with no requirement for intravenous or interventional support and no secondary end organ damage , in practice many of the patients referred for consideration of transplantation require active support in hospital and have been referred in some cases because they have developed secondary end organ damage . |
| 32 | ‘ It only proves what I have been saying for some time that this was nothing more than an arranged marriage . |
| 33 | Colleagues in local government have been saying for some time that the Government have said that , at some point , the revenue collection services in local authorities would be privatised and would go out to tender . |
| 34 | I think I 'm making my point , I have been saying for some time now that given the fact that all that security has n't produced the results , the logic of that is dialogue , and when I see the opportunity as I saw it , of dialogue , direct dialogue with Mr Addams that could lead to a total cessation of this violence , I felt it was my duty to do so . |
| 35 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
| 36 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |
| 37 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 38 | Mergers of health authority-run services with trusts have been criticised by some opponents of the Government 's NHS reforms as obtaining trust status ‘ by the back door ’ . |
| 39 | Low values have been attributed by some authors to a preclinical effect of the tumour , others have shown that the lowered values predate the detection of cancer by at east five years . |
| 40 | Nervous convulsions have been attributed by some clinicians to toxocariasis , but there is still some disagreement on whether the parasite can be implicated as a cause of these signs . |
| 41 | Standard specifications have been agreed for some products like hamburgers and meat pies , for example , and the NAAFI have the task of sourcing supplies for these and for all other items such as fruit and vegetables . |
| 42 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 43 | In part this is concerned with the omission of key features of reality , such as uncertainty , the role of expectations , and market imperfections , which have been discussed to some extent in earlier Lectures . |
| 44 | She and her friend Sharon have been pursued by some boys , who are taunting Carol to take her clothes off . |
| 45 | Some rural locations have been designated as ‘ assisted areas ’ which can benefit from regional policy , while special development boards have been established in some regions such as mid-Wales and the Highlands and Islands . |
| 46 | I have been waiting for some time for hon. Members to refer to my apparel and I am duly flattered . |
| 47 | This idea has borne some fruit in temperate countries , where spoil-tips , gravel-pits and other industrial eyesores have been returned to some sort of semblance of native vegetation with its associated fauna . |
| 48 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 49 | The depth and extent of this understanding have been shown in some work of exceptional quality and insight . |
| 50 | Understanding language development for all prospective parents , second language learning for all prospective language learners , language structure and the history of languages for some students at least , have been encouraged in some schools ( Donmall , 1985 ) . |
| 51 | Increased rates of spinal bone loss have been reported in some patients and the average spinal bone loss was 3%/yr . |
| 52 | The contents of motion one seven eight appear to be sound , conference , we have been tried and we have been tried by some regions in a very limited way with some success . |
| 53 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 54 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 55 | IMPACT Moling : These machines have been used for some years to lay services and pipes up to 125mm in diameter . |
| 56 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 57 | Although meaning postulates have been used by some psychologists to represent semantic relations , the theory has inspired little empirical research or computational implementation . |
| 58 | At least the powers are there in the statute and have been used in some cases . |
| 59 | The bonds , which offer a fixed rate return for a stated period subject generally to some conditions , have been marketed by some sales agents as an alternative to building society deposit accounts . |
| 60 | Difficulties with the present ‘ grey gate ’ system , in which the starter pulls a lever to raise a 65 yard-long elastic tape , have been known for some years . |