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 .
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