Example sentences of "have been [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are going to show candidates around then make sure there is someone to do it and that anyone whose work/routine might be affected has been given some advance warning . |
| 2 | The National Front leader , Jean-Marie Le Pen , has been given some ironic advice from members of his own party in the Riviera capital Nice . |
| 3 | I understand this has been given some serious consideration , but it has been decided not to proceed at present . |
| 4 | THE Bill Wells Octet has been exploring some unusual stylistic directions in the context of the Scottish jazz scene , but this appearance did not live up to expectations . |
| 5 | What I have been concerned about in this short section has been to compare some simple forms of growth equations deriving from quite different traditions . |
| 6 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 7 | ‘ She has been doing some spectacular work , going very well with Governor 's Imp , and Luca Cumani very generously let me work her with Red Slippers the other day , and after that I knew we had a live Group One horse , ’ the trainer added . |
| 8 | Bernard Dixon has been digesting some bizarre eating habits |
| 9 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 10 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 11 | So she must have been wearing some funny shoes to get corns on |
| 12 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 13 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 14 | The listings from early modern England show that up to 8 per cent of households of over-sixty-year-olds might have been receiving some economic support through lodgers . |
| 15 | He travelled as a seaman to Sydney where he won the Australian heavyweight title before transferring to San Francisco where he was persuaded by the Earl of Lonsdale to operate in England , a move which enhanced his status greatly , as a contemporary noted : ‘ I knew him in the days of his greatness when sitting on top of the pugilistic world , fêted and lionized , he might well have been excused some slight vanity ’ ( quoted by Henderson , 1949 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 16 | If this had been the case I may possibly have been offered some cosmetic surgery , but this wo n't happen because it 's a natural part of pregnancy . |
| 17 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |
| 18 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 19 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 20 | She told Lord Penrose that the action had been raised some considerable time ago but negotiations were continuing . |
| 21 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 22 | He admired his father-in-law 's farming ability and had been given some worthwhile advice whenever they had met . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 26 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 27 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 28 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 29 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 30 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |