Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The terms of this participation have been endlessly argued about , and the increasing practice of the advance on royalties has to some extent modified it , in restoring an element of purchase . |
| 2 | All of you who read these words have at some time in your youth dreamt the biggest dreams . |
| 3 | Certificates have for some time been sent in postal tubes by recorded delivery to Divisional Secretaries . |
| 4 | Parents have in some cases been asked to take over the practice of hearing their children read almost exclusively , either at home or in school . |
| 5 | Details are given below under Teaching , but it is worth mentioning here the training course in French law at the University of Aix/ Marseille , for which scholarships have for some years been offered by the Cultural Service of the French Embassy , 22 Wilton Crescent , London SW1 . |
| 6 | In our society the judges have in some aspects of their work a discretionary power to do justice so wide that they may be regarded as law-makers . |
| 7 | The appearance of women at Russian stations has to some extent been matched by a growth in women 's employment in railways elsewhere . |
| 8 | Frankly , it is a travesty of the truth that the BBC in the past four or five years has in some way been tamed . |
| 9 | Most serious bands have at some stage attracted A&R interest . |
| 10 | The existence of such a large ( see 12:37 ) alien group in his borderlands has for some time made Pharaoh uneasy . |
| 11 | It may be right to guess that Athens ' ambitious foreign policy of this period , which includes diplomacy with a non-Greek town far in the interior of Sicily ( ML 37 = Fornara 81 , an alliance with Segesta in 457 ) , was forced on her by the need to seek alternative supplies of corn , because her usual overseas sources had for some reason become precarious . |
| 12 | It added : ‘ This explosion deepens the cracks in a monarchy which a number of Britons have for some time regarded with a mixture of indifference and contempt . ’ |
| 13 | In the United States , academics have for some years been engaging in what has been termed the ‘ deregulation critique ’ of the federal role in education . |
| 14 | This is an important shift away from the concept that a firm is competent to carry out investment business and may be authorised solely on the grounds that its partners have at some time qualified as chartered accountants . |
| 15 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 16 | The toast to the Divisions has for some time been a ‘ musical geography tour ’ and this time people present were treated to an extra musical item being the toast to National Office , whereby gave an immaculate rendition of The Hippopotamus Song . |
| 17 | As already mentioned , the Irish bishops had for some time found the separation of church and state both a workable and desirable solution . |
| 18 | Many who had earlier worked against Scottish interests had for some time been making covert approaches and promises through envoys between the two Courts . |
| 19 | Political scientists have for some time tried to grapple with the question : what difference , if any , does party control of the government make to political outputs ? |
| 20 | The fact that the applicants in the main proceedings had for some time circumvented the objectives of the Common Fisheries Policy did not give them any legitimate expectation that they would be allowed to continue to do so in the future . |
| 21 | For example , in forensic contexts phoneticians and linguists have for some years now used their expertise to assist in voice identification ; academically this is a highly controversial enterprise . |
| 22 | Almost men have at some time an intimation of being more than the material , and the appearance and personality . |
| 23 | Higher environmental standards have to some extent highlighted the problem of offensive odours . |
| 24 | Non-flying mammals have for some time been suspected to be pollinators in a number of vegetation types outside the tropics and , in recent years , this has been proved to be so in both South Africa and Australia . |
| 25 | These negotiations have in some instances resulted in changes in the original plans . |
| 26 | Relations between the communist states had for some time been less amicable than a common dedication to working-class interests might have suggested . |
| 27 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 28 | Recently , chairman of ICI and Zeneca , said Zeneca was unlikely to go onto the takeover trail : ‘ The number of '80s-style expansionary acquisitions has to some extent levelled off , or declined . |
| 29 | He lost little or nothing by the concession and , as we have seen , the papal letters had for some time indicated the likelihood of such a solution being acceptable at Rome . |
| 30 | Proposals such as these went a long way to alleviate Chinese concerns and brought closer the possibility of a summit meeting between the two leaderships for which Soviet spokesmen had for some time been calling . |