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

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1 In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid .
2 It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement .
3 The principles underlying the poll tax had long been criticised by some sections of the party .
4 And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again .
5 So he 's obviously been incapacitated in some way .
6 It does piss you off admittedly when scum are on so much , and I 've a sneaking feeling that Leeds have still not been forgiven in some parts of the press for being close enough to sneak the title when scum fucked up ( due to Fuckerson 's crap team selection ) .
7 Although it has not been seen for some time , the manuscript may contain a specimen of Mary Leapor 's handwriting .
8 And he had not been seen for some days .
9 The Court of Appeal decided to undertake a review of the basic principles of the law in this area and as this has not been done for some time we now set out in detail what they held .
10 However , the " sombre professionalism " or intellectual self-sufficiency of inter-war English studies had not been achieved without some breakdown of mutual comprehension within the discipline itself .
11 It was owned by the Baron de Rochefort and his family , and visitors had not been encouraged for some time , as the Baron did not enjoy the best of health .
12 Do n't be discouraged by this , as it is a good sign that you have stretched muscles that have not been used for some time .
13 But their image has not been helped by some leaving damaged and defaced properties .
14 The UN knows that much of the Cambodian army has not been paid for some time , so , until a new government takes over , it is considering paying the troops itself .
15 Cereals for human consumption have not been ground for some years .
16 A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time .
17 It has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent .
18 With regard to treatment , this subject has already been covered in some detail .
19 The significance of internal structures had already been accepted in some cases ( otherwise whales and dolphins would be classified as fish rather than as mammals ) , but Cuvier made this central to the classification of the whole animal kingdom .
20 The strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business .
21 He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge .
22 My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse .
23 Peripheral neuropathy has also been seen in some patients with PSS and neuropathy has been implicated in the initial changes in oesophageal motility .
24 The development of sub-degree courses has also been inhibited to some extent because better staffing ratios , more generous accommodation and higher salaries have accrued from teaching full-time degree level students .
25 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
26 One official wrote that the missing cattle ‘ have probably been driven off some distance by some of the bolder spirits of the village , and hired out for the season to some not over-scrupulous cultivator , with instructions to let them go loose when done with .
27 The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions .
28 Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on .
29 It has even been suggested by some historians , that the series gave impetus to the building of the Thames Embankment , which prevented the regular disastrous flooding of the homes of poor people .
30 After a while the station returned to normal , Charlotte had n't been seen for some time , and Albert had been killed in World War I so all three participants in the awful tragedy had gone for ever , or had they ?
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