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

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1 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 .
2 British banks have been granted some £2,250 million in tax relief on bad loans to developing countries , according to official figures .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ) .
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