Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the product selection has been made some options for managing records may have been made impossible by the operating environment or application software . |
| 2 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 3 | It was believed that the device might have been planted some days earlier . |
| 4 | He is therefore likely to have been born some years before 1248 . |
| 5 | It was understood that the car was one reported to have been stolen some days earlier from a car park in Colchester . |
| 6 | The teacher had been sent some worksheets to try out . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 9 | On Aug. 19 Joint Political and Military Commission ( CCPM ) observers reported that the situation remained tense , and expressed dismay that recommendations to end the violence , which had been made some days earlier , had yet to be implemented . |
| 10 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The photograph had been taken some years ago at a GLC panto . |
| 13 | Dinner conversation that evening took in gout , on which a distinctive book had been published some years earlier . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ An institution for the purpose of cultivating this art ( of veterinary medicine ) similar to those which have been established some years in France , Germany , Piedmont , Sweden , Denmark , etc. would afford an exhaustless fund of amusement to independent persons , as well as of precious instruction to all . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |