Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , everyone who matters has already been to some sort of bash at the Natural History Museum ; this is new . |
| 2 | The sense of national community is not helped by exhortations to cheer for England in Test Matches and the implication that those who do not are in some sense not good British citizens , and yet this sort of crude and simplistic interpretation of the obligations of citizenship was heard from some politicians in 1990 . |
| 3 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 4 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 5 | Most of our advertisers have already been in some form of advertising before . |
| 6 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm not sure that we have n't been at some point , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 8 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 9 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 10 | Although this may sound harsh and unreasonable , experience has made it hard for me to trust women who have never been through some form of separatist reaction . |