Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success . |
| 2 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 3 | The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way . |
| 4 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 5 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 6 | In the paranoid , anguished silence you surmise , or maybe you were told later , that these heavies have been swindled in some drug deal in the scuzzy wine lodge next door , and that they are out to commit violence against the perpetrator . |
| 7 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 8 | Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April . |
| 9 | In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion . |
| 10 | Gone are the days when thick nylon coated wire and barbaric hooks ruled ; thankfully these have been replaced by some topclass products . |
| 11 | Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself . |
| 12 | If the package has changed and the DCs have been aborted for some reason , but you still wish to proceed with the change , raise new DCs , get agreement for the changes , activate the Dcs through your package , then resubmit the package for approval . |
| 13 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 14 | Faced with this lack of clarity in the law , the police have been left to some extent to interpret it for themselves . |
| 15 | There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway . |
| 16 | This last datum may be accompanied by one of the following letters : S = the company 's shares have been suspended , A = company has been acquired , L = company has been liquidated , e = non-voting shares have been enfranchised for some reason , and lastly F = the shares have been withdrawn from the official list for some other reason than those already mentioned . |
| 17 | In part this is concerned with the omission of key features of reality , such as uncertainty , the role of expectations , and market imperfections , which have been discussed to some extent in earlier Lectures . |
| 18 | This idea has borne some fruit in temperate countries , where spoil-tips , gravel-pits and other industrial eyesores have been returned to some sort of semblance of native vegetation with its associated fauna . |
| 19 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 20 | The depth and extent of this understanding have been shown in some work of exceptional quality and insight . |
| 21 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 22 | Bound , hard cover books , laboratory notebooks have been used for some time and have a strong pedigree . |
| 23 | The Act also tries to encourage sentencers to pass fewer custodial sentences by on the one hand extending to adult offenders the kind of statutory criteria that have been used with some success in the past on younger age groups ( see Chapter 9 ) ; and on the other hand by strengthening community penalties in the hope of increasing their appeal to sentencers . |
| 24 | These letters have been known for some time , as the aggrieved Leone published them in a pamphlet in 1764 . |
| 25 | The research has been done for some time and the results have been known for some time , yet still the Government do nothing . |
| 26 | As members will be aware , the Local Government Regions and Districts have been known for some time , and the areas of the Sheriffdoms were published at the beginning of the year . |
| 27 | The effects of trampling on large mammalian bone have been described in some detail ( Andrews & Cook , 1985 ; Behrensmeyer et al . , |
| 28 | Although Caribbean language varieties ( and , in particular , Jamaican Creole ) have been described in some detail , our knowledge of the language of second and third generation West Indian settlers in Britain is extremely sketchy . |
| 29 | If a claim is initially received under item 5 and weekly benefits have been paid for some time and the initial medical prognosis was poor , close attention should be paid to the possibility of a capital benefits claim being made . |
| 30 | Automated techniques for studying data have been provided in some software . |