Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] be some " in BNC.
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1 | All that has happened is some well organised opposition to the Baldonnell site . |
2 | Six years ago the only computer I 'd used was some horrid games machine a girlfriend had once become obsessed with . |
3 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
4 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
5 | There appears to have been some slackness in staff discipline in that teachers were often late for , or even absent from , lectures . |
6 | Even allowing for the restricted staff , there appears to have been some lack of organization of the lecturing programme in Coleman 's later years . |
7 | There also appears to have been some confusion over photo credits : the colour photo on page 507 was actually taken by this reviewer , but is one of a number of photos incorrectly credited to another person . |
8 | There appears to have been some resistance within the Soviet military to Khrushchev 's doctrine of ‘ minimum deterrence ’ — the USSR , he had complained in 1963 , could not produce ‘ nothing but rockets ’ — and the Cuban missile crisis and later the Vietnam War delayed the signature of further agreements . |
9 | There even seems to have been some notion of carrying the plateway along as far as Husbands Bosworth . |
10 | In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent . |
11 | There seems to have been some obfuscation , perhaps deliberate , in the translation of the original Coptic text , but what Jesus appears to say is : ‘ Greetings , my venerable guardian Peter . |
12 | In this context there seems to have been some unexplained change of thinking on the part of the Inspectorate because the eight areas of experience ( in Curriculum 11–16 ) were seen as a way of considering a common curriculum , presumably satisfying all aspects of the curriculum including ‘ education and society ’ and ‘ working life ’ . |
13 | Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken . |
14 | The Group retains a strong concern with the traditional macro-economic issues of fiscal and monetary policy , inflation , the exchange rates for sterling , UK trade policy and aggregate employment which its UK model was first designed to elucidate and which are still in certain respects important subjects of controversy at the analytic level ( although there seems to have been some convergence of short-term and even medium-term conditional predictions ) . |
15 | Seems to have been some sort of mix-up . |
16 | ‘ There seems to have been some personation going on here . |
17 | What it appears to import is some positive act which is short of entering into a new contract and as such it does not fit neatly into the conceptual apparatus of contract law . |
18 | Creeping up on one , all they managed to steal was some food . |
19 | What I do want is some wine to take back to school tomorrow , oh er I mean |
20 | What we do have are some relatively scanty observations of the surface movements over the tropical Pacific based on volunteer observers on merchant ships . |
21 | All I 've got is some coppers for the tin . |
22 | All I had to eat was some chocolate Tony had left in the car , washed down by a can of beer in the freeze compartment . |
23 | All you have to do is some simple , preliminary mathematics . |
24 | So in fact I 've always concentrated and what people have wanted is some specific direction namely wills dying and what happens if you have n't done something about it . |
25 | What the sociobiologists have identified are some underlying relationships and latent forms of human behaviour . |