Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] been [prep] some " in BNC.
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1 | Gould 's arrangements for his own children were meticulously considered , which must have been of some consolation to his wife , who had dutifully resolved to accompany her husband to Australia . |
2 | Welcome as the Cabinet 's new policy must have been to some Ministers in the Lords , such as Lord Pakenham , then Minister of Civil Aviation and an abolitionist to his fingertips , voting for suspension can not have been an agreeable experience for the unyieldingly retentionist Lord Chancellor , Jowitt . |
3 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
4 | It must have been at some time , because I can speak it now . |
5 | This very large accession takes up where the first deposit stopped , and covers the years 1861 to 1920 , in addition to some titles and papers of earlier date which must have been at some time extracted from their proper place . |
6 | This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple . |
7 | It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years . |
8 | The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge . |
9 | I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’ |
10 | Wallace came on shortly before time and showed what could have been with some fast ground-oriented attacking . |
11 | They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised . |
12 | Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took . |
13 | Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic . |
14 | Impressive reading it may have been for some , but tantalizing for the men and they certainly rose to the occasion . |
15 | Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology . |
16 | An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today . |
17 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
18 | If I could have departed then , never reentered the house , it would have been with some strength of mind . |