Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis . |
| 2 | In this chapter an attempt has been made to explore some evidence about teachers , teaching and teachers ' work . |
| 3 | in this article an attempt has been made to extract some guiding principles which underline good goldfish keeping . |
| 4 | What information has been gathered contains some subtle but ominous signs . |
| 5 | The demarcation itself can be finally ratified by the president after the land has been physically staked out , a large and time-consuming task for which the Brazilian congress has been asked to provide some 42 million . |
| 6 | The charity for the elderly has been forced to reduce some of its activities at Whyte House on the Waterside due to lack of funds . |
| 7 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 8 | WWF has greatly expanded its conservation work , and in response to requests from supporters , a series of leaflets has been published outlining some of the main issues . |
| 9 | A brief test at the end of this chapter has been designed to give some idea of how much of a ‘ lark ’ or ‘ owl ’ you are . |
| 10 | This leaflet has been designed to provide some basic information . |
| 11 | My dream is achievable because all we have to do is stop doing some of the things we are already doing : stop using the productive forces we have developed to create disabilities through warfare , environmental pollution and industrial accidents ; stop creating disabilities through poverty by using our vast wealth not in pursuit of capital accumulation and profit , but in ensuring that we all have the necessities to sustain material life ; and stop judging and treating people on the basis of the contribution they can or can not make to the development and operation of these productive forces . |
| 12 | Erm , but what I wanted us to do is to start getting some discussion going and , so that you 're actually getting a bit closer to one another . |
| 13 | My contemporary interest in the case is in the argument that Parliament could not sensibly have intended to frame its enactment in these terms simply for the purpose of dealing with the rare and improbable case of a crooked solicitor and , therefore , the provision must have been intended to have some wider operation . |
| 14 | Progress towards this happy state would be hindered by revolution ; some of those who read his book might have been inspired to take some practical action , so in order to make clear his position Godwin produced a pamphlet in 1795 entitled Considerations on Lord Grenville ‘ s and Mr. Pitt 's Bills in which he supported the government 's repression of ‘ agitators and democrats ’ . |
| 15 | While she may have been forced to permit some seepage of sovereignty to imperial institutions on some issues , she was never prepared to give ground on things that really mattered as , in the same way , Germany is not prepared to give ground on monetary union . |
| 16 | She certainly did n't want his sympathy ; in all probability she could n't even have coped with it — but still , it would have been reassuring to detect some trace of humanity in the man . |
| 17 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 18 | But if MAFF 's original assessment for the UK 's LFA had been based on an objective survey rather than merely regurgitating the ‘ hill line ’ drawn up under the 1946 Hill Farming Act , it would have had a more reliable basis to which the results of its Hills and Uplands land classification could have been added to determine some meaningful handicap zones . |
| 19 | Also , apparently , Matron had been overheard making some indelicate comment to one of the cleaners about the state of Harding 's sheets . |
| 20 | Sometimes he managed to abstract a page he particularly liked and take it home , He had a whole article on a young actress who had been asked to model some clothes . |
| 21 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 22 | Small and poorly appointed as her ‘ place ’ was , it had been arranged to satisfy some inner need or order … |
| 23 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 24 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 25 | Lancashire 's Pakistani pace bowler Wasim Akram , for example had been found to generate some 15 to 20 mph from his wrist action alone . |
| 26 | Even before his death in February 1790 Joseph , ill and discouraged , had been driven to revoke some of his most unpopular measures . |
| 27 | The SOC government had been set to release some 400 political detainees and POWs on Jan. 3 but the move had been cancelled after Fresard denounced it as " a pure propaganda piece " . |
| 28 | By the spring of 1940 the War Office had been persuaded to put some of these ideas into practice and a number of companies were raised to act independently in guerrilla roles . |
| 29 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 30 | I 've been trying to talk some sense into her . ’ |