Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [adv] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | And match referee Deryck Murray remains baffled as to why his report has been tucked away in some International Cricket Council file . |
| 2 | The British Standard BS 6652 for child resistance is granted to specific combinations of bottle and cap and has been given only for some makes of closures on BS 1679 bottles , which are the ones we use in this hospital . |
| 3 | The slash-and-burn type of shifting cultivation has been used continuously for some 2000 years in Indomalesia , each patch being cropped for only 2 or 3 years , the people at a density of some five or fewer cultivators per km 2 . |
| 4 | This plant , a relative of ivy and indigenous to the temperate mountains of the Far East , has been used continually for some 5000 years in the Orient as a tonic , restorative and preventive remedy . |
| 5 | Sweden has led the way in banning tin-based coatings , and copper has been banned too in some areas . ’ |
| 6 | Machine knitting plays an important part in stimulating the residents ' creative talents and a small textile workshop has been set up with some encouraging results . |
| 7 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 8 | The Cook Antonello has been offered privately for some time , being turned down by both the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Polish/American heiress Basia Johnson , the latter dissuaded by her advisors Derek Johns and the late Adrian Ward-Jackson ( see The Art Newspaper No. 1 , Oct. 1990 , p. 17 ) , who held that it was a copy by Andrea Solario after a lost prototype by Antonello , an opinion that originated with Bernard Berenson in 1895 , and one that stuck for most of the twentieth century . |
| 9 | This policy has been carried out for some time by the OECD countries , Todorovic claimed , except that there the figure is between 4 and 6 per cent . |
| 10 | you could see it like , er but it could easily have been filled in with some wood and nobody would know it was there , yeah |
| 11 | In fact , options or at least verbal commitments will have been obtained already for some special buys which are wanted , but nothing will have been the subject of a formal order to any of the media before this . |
| 12 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 13 | Surely at least one would have been caught short at some point during the operation . |
| 14 | The idea may have been worked out with some care or , at the other extreme , it may have been put up spontaneously at a meeting convened to discuss the content of a future programme of activity . |
| 15 | While the proposal was known to have been received enthusiastically by some EC countries , including Portugal and Greece , others like France opposed a CSCM which would include the Middle East , preferring to limit it to the western Mediterranean . |
| 16 | The bed was made , but did n't seem to have been slept in for some time , although there was a folded pair of pyjamas under the pillow . |
| 17 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 18 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 19 | I recently discovered that this consultation paper had been sent out to some environmental NGOs in England in March for comments by the end of April . |
| 20 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 21 | It seems they had been beaten up in some way by other prisoners but we do not know who . ’ |
| 22 | In all the houses , a burned , ashy sediment had been piled up around some of the cooking-holes while they held containers , and this sediment was particularly rich in plant remains . |
| 23 | Earlier forecasts , suggesting that the world 's population would stabilize at about 10,200 million by 2085 , had been revised upwards with some experts predicting that that total could be reached as early as 2060 . |
| 24 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 25 | She had risen from the couch and was awaiting his approach , her consternation evident as if she had been caught out in some misbehaviour . |
| 26 | Confused , flushing as though she had been found out in some guilty action , Isabel tentatively let her fingers rest lightly on fitzAlan 's arm . |
| 27 | Outside the party the syndicalists had formed a " Left " of the unions and this had been taken over to some extent by the Communist Party of Great Britain , founded in 1920 . |
| 28 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |
| 29 | More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture . |
| 30 | Anna and her mother lived in a little detached house which looked as though it had been sliced off from some larger building . |