Example sentences of "[verb] be [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | A lot of erm group one plans are , there are about ten thousand plans that are showing an arrears status at the moment , and premium has been missed some time ago , it 's not a , not a current premium , which means on the fifteenth of June or the first of July we will automatically go in and pick up two premiums , we 'll t we 'll try and collect the arrears without having notified the client of it in any way at all . |
| 2 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 3 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 4 | This counter-argument has been given some recognition by the courts , in that the ‘ reasonable relationship rule ’ is no longer a rule of law . |
| 5 | If you are going to show candidates around then make sure there is someone to do it and that anyone whose work/routine might be affected has been given some advance warning . |
| 6 | I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present . |
| 7 | The National Front leader , Jean-Marie Le Pen , has been given some ironic advice from members of his own party in the Riviera capital Nice . |
| 8 | ‘ Linking ’ and ‘ intrusive ’ are special cases of juncture ; this name refers to the relationship between one sound and the sounds that immediately precede and follow it , and has been given some importance in phonological theory . |
| 9 | It is possible to think that this plebeian has been lent some part of Naipaul 's aristocratic fastidiousness , some part of his hostility , while also suffering the consequences of an exposure to these qualities , and to recall that both Ahmed and the author of An Area of Darkness are preoccupied with the hanks of human shit that litter certain landscapes . |
| 10 | That book of his has been finished some time , by the way , and is about to appear in the bookshops . |
| 11 | The project has been drawn some criticism , however , from those who argue that it does not take sufficient account of the interests of local tribal people . |
| 12 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
| 13 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 14 | I remember being given some caviar once when we were in Russia — wrapped in newspaper because they had no containers to put it in ! |
| 15 | Had butterflies been colour-blind and bees without a delicate sense of smell , man would have been denied some of the greatest delights that the natural world has to offer . |
| 16 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 17 | If the path had crossed this line then a clear surface would have been encountered some distance below the clouds . |
| 18 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 19 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 20 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 21 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |
| 22 | The latest tomb to be found is situated some 250m west of the first at the base of an adobe truncated pyramid called Huaca Loro and contains a wide range of funerary offerings weighing in all around 1.2 tons . |
| 23 | Tack was left some money in his mother 's will and decided that he should give up his job and go in to business for himself . |
| 24 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 25 | It is very easy to get involved in discussing whether Olive ought to have been given some knowledge of French wines before George moved , or perhaps persuaded to move to the city along with him . |
| 26 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 27 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 28 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 29 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 30 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |