Example sentences of "[noun sg] have be [vb pp] some " in BNC.
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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 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Mr Stuart-Moore said the notebook containing the master plan had been written some time before and some details had been altered . |
6 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
7 | This counter-argument has been given some recognition by the courts , in that the ‘ reasonable relationship rule ’ is no longer a rule of law . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | The tree has been removed some time since . |
10 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
11 | 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 ) . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Special considerations : the appellant had been diagnosed some time previously as HIV positive and more recently AIDS had developed . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |