Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] [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 has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent . |
| 7 | With regard to treatment , this subject has already been covered in some detail . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 10 | This scheme has already been operating in some London boroughs but it has prompted criticism from anti-poll tax campaigners who have branded the technique as ‘ harassment ’ . |
| 11 | If a patent were to be granted to the second business , it could prevent the first from using what it has already been using for some time . |
| 12 | The strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business . |
| 13 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 14 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 15 | I mean we 've just been to look at some others and upstairs and downstairs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse . |
| 18 | Peripheral neuropathy has also been seen in some patients with PSS and neuropathy has been implicated in the initial changes in oesophageal motility . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But it had clearly been used at some time in the past . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely . |
| 26 | An increased rate of gastric emptying has previously been noted in some patients with DU , and a familial form of the disease associated with rapid gastric emptying has also been described . |