Example sentences of "have [adv] be [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 2 | Education in Britain has always been considered some of the best in the world . |
| 3 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 4 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |
| 5 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 6 | The list had obviously been printed some time before . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 9 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 10 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 11 | I 've had some packed lunches which were perfect , but I 've also been sold some horrors . |
| 12 | The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea . |
| 13 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 14 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 15 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 16 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 17 | This more psychoanalytical explanation may seem far-fetched , but it is important to realize that feline terms have often been given some sort of sexual connotation ( sex kittens , pussy as slang for female genitals , and cathouse for brothel ) . |