Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered why Pinkie mentioned Laura , then realised with sinking heart that she was no longer keeping her discontent to herself and the echo of it must have travelled for some distance . |
| 2 | – This means that the outer G forme was removed from the press part way through — printing stopped for some reason — and someone dropped it , scattering the letters everywhere . |
| 3 | Provided the provisional calculations are reliable ( which is a topic for another day ) , farmers can be forgiven for some confusion in any debate about whether they were really better off in 1992 than in 1991 and whether they ‘ felt ’ better off ! |
| 4 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 5 | CPRW has evidence that the sale of holiday units as permanent residences is already beginning to happen where the temporary occupancy clause , which is customarily enforced on caravan and chalet sites , has been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 6 | It was one of the most complicated developments undertaken for some time , with Wendy working weekends and holidays to complete the project . |
| 7 | Because there was no sign that Marian and Allen had regained the highway ahead of them the verderers agreed that there were three possibilities : the first , that the children would lie hidden for some time in dense woodland until it was safe for them to return to the ride ; the second , that they would try to work their way around the Swamp to the north but that since they would be away from paths this would be difficult and slow ; and the third , that they might try to reach the outlaws ' camp by passing the Swamp to the south . |
| 8 | The need for regulatory change had been mooted for some time . |
| 9 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 10 | An attempt to remove Kevin Maxwell has been mooted for some time . |
| 11 | That system had been intended for some time . |
| 12 | To be recognized for some achievement in life lifted Dad immensely ; before Eva he had begun to see himself as a failure and his life as a dismal thing . |
| 13 | Israeli leaders had recognized for some time the need for a powerful outside backer . |
| 14 | The release of these chemicals following drainage has been recognized for some time , but researchers at the Australian national research organization ( CSIRO ) now offer an explanation of the cause and also point to the great risks involved in large-scale land reclamation projects . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If the material is not topical and is delayed for some time before being sent out the date should be changed . |
| 17 | This rule does not apply to an action for the recovery of land , where the return day is that of the final hearing ( N5 — 6 ) , unless a claim is joined for some relief other than the payment of mesne profits or arrears of rent or for moneys secured by a mortgage or charge ( Ord 3 , r 3(4) ) . |
| 18 | This is something for which my hon. Friends and I have pressed for some time . |
| 19 | [ The British ] had pressed for some time for a continuation of a combined staff relationship and had only been convinced that we were serious in rejecting this when we moved their combined staff people out of the Pentagon and moved the standing group [ of Nato ] in . |
| 20 | Both the Inter-Regional Standing Committee for Art and Design Education ( IRSCADE ) and NATFHE have pressed for some form of national validation of foundation courses and the former organization , having collected views from the colleges offering the courses , has listed five future possibilities . |
| 21 | Equally important to guard against , on the Tory side , is the idea that Mr Major must now be regarded as some kind of superman . |
| 22 | This , I suppose , must be regarded as some sort of progress . |
| 23 | Yet in painting , colour is regularly treated as some kind of mystery , beyond out understanding . |
| 24 | One would have wished for some recognition of the fact that a view of Co-operation which limits it almost wholly to the Consumers ' Movement and is satisfied with that limitation , is at least to be regretted . |
| 25 | When somebody had been convicted of the offence , or no other offences had been committed for some time , the names were removed from the police station notice board — the police needed the space there — and put in a file or destroyed . |
| 26 | She had expected for some reason a warm and well-fleshed figure , dressed in tweeds saturated in the comforting perfume of unsmoked tobacco . |
| 27 | No results , however , are expected for some time ; and in any case , Whitehall expenditure reviews are notorious for failing to deliver anything of significance . |
| 28 | This comes even when death has been expected for some time , but is even more dramatic when the death is sudden . |
| 29 | The third had been expected for some time . |
| 30 | Some would argue that the real problem lies in the fact that shares had been overvalued for some time , and that prices were likely to fall , and that the above events provided the impetus . |