Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [vb pp] some " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto .
2 The boat had been bought some time earlier but had been abandoned due to decay and damage .
3 An astonishing repair of sorts had been effected some time in the last century : a young fruit tree was nailed vertically to the back of the panel and held in place with iron bands .
4 She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing .
5 Where there were examples of co-residence , the joint household had been established some years before the elderly person needed physical care , and a number of these households had been created by the younger generation(s) moving in with the parent , not the other way round .
6 Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered .
7 It was perhaps as well John Hounsell had been given some forewarning .
8 Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay .
9 The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out .
10 British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures .
11 This counter-argument has been given some recognition by the courts , in that the ‘ reasonable relationship rule ’ is no longer a rule of law .
12 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 .
13 The tree has been removed some time since .
14 When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software .
15 Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) .
16 Also , domestication of dogs and cattle had been undertaken some twelve hundred years ago in southern Europe by Azilian hunters who had used dogs to corner their prey .
17 Where one-off items have been selected some stores will reserve them for you , but you may have to buy them yourself if they are n't chosen .
18 He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food .
19 Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city .
20 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 .
21 Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier .
22 But Hygeberht had been demoted some time before .
23 The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed .
24 As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket .
25 Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed .
26 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 .
27 The local government system of the time had been given some shape by the Municipal Corporations Act of 1835 , but it was not until the end of the century that it acquired a structure that would enable it to take on the range of functions it has today .
28 Nearly 600 years after the first building it was to suffer a most ignoble period for the old building , within whose walls had been seen some of the highest in the land , was to become a Workhouse .
29 Whilst librarians have been saved some paperwork , statistics of use for individual theses will now be impossible to obtain from BLDSC , and the present type of research methodology will no longer be practicable .
30 It might be possible for people in such circumstances ( perhaps when redundancies have been notified some weeks in advance ) to be supported and perhaps taught techniques to cope with the anxiety and avoid being overpessimistic or ‘ catastrophising ’ ( see next section ) .
  Next page