Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 3 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 4 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 5 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 6 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 7 | The other features , the mouth , the ears , and especially the nose , had been blurred in some fashion by the surgeon 's knife . |
| 8 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 9 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 10 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 11 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 12 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 13 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 14 | Maurin had been involved to some degree in everything that had happened . |
| 15 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 16 | Although the wording indicates that this had given rise to " considerable discussion " , implying that these methods had been questioned by some present , and the phrase " it was unwise to make any further interpretation " implies that those methods should not be spelled out too explicitly , the clear conclusion of the conference was that the policy being followed by 5 Corps should be given full backing . |
| 17 | Here we know that the enclosure of the open fields began in the 1570s , and had been completed by some date in the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | At the northern end was a much lower , broader cone , Perboewetan , whose crater wall had been breached at some time in the past by a large lava flow . |
| 19 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 20 | All of his staff had been damaged in some way , but for those who were shy , or clever enough to hide themselves from Lennon 's advance . |
| 21 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 22 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 23 | And the factory hours and rugby support which militated against soccer in Leeds had been challenged with some success from 1912 to 1914 . |
| 24 | He had a face that was both sensuous and battered — his nose had been broken at some time — with deep pouches under his dark eyes . |
| 25 | ‘ The house had been neglected for some time , ’ explains Pauline . |
| 26 | This problem in combining general relativity and the uncertainty principle had been suspected for some time , but was finally confirmed by detailed calculations in 1972 . |
| 27 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 28 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 29 | Professor Seymour-Strachey had been retired for some time now , and had left Grimsby . |
| 30 | Coloni received a message to say his mother had been injured in some sort of political disturbance in Valparaíso , so instead of cooking for us , he decided to go home . |