Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him .
2 Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements .
3 These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success .
4 In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members .
5 In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree .
6 Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold .
7 Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences .
8 My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows .
9 The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way .
10 The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time .
11 Over the last decade , benefits for the unemployed have been cut in some 50 different ways so that the living standards of those out of work have fallen even further behind those of other citizens . ’
12 Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time .
13 The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff .
14 Moreover , the high estimates of press influence on international relations which were widespread by the beginning of the twentieth century , and which have been repeated by some historians , were much exaggerated .
15 In the paranoid , anguished silence you surmise , or maybe you were told later , that these heavies have been swindled in some drug deal in the scuzzy wine lodge next door , and that they are out to commit violence against the perpetrator .
16 Data have been obtained from some 1,550 diary respondents and preliminary analyses reported in the committee 's journal , The Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , pp. 387-413 .
17 When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history .
18 Lovesey 's books have been called by some critics pastiches , though he is firm in stating that he intended to produce the equivalent of the police procedural in the days when there was not much procedure and not all that many police .
19 More recently fast-breeder reactors fuelled with a mixture of plutonium and uranium have been developed by some countries .
20 In an attempt to address this situation , alternative approaches to worker certification and improved opportunities for advancement have been developed in some countries .
21 Efforts have been made for some time to get this off the ground and a successful public meeting was held at Newtown at the end of April .
22 Although texts devoted to the human impact ( e.g. Goudie , 1981b ; Gregory and Walling 1979 ) and those devoted to branches of physical geography have not yet emphasized urban physical geography , claims have been made by some writers that the urban environment is sufficiently distinctive to warrant attention as a specific milieu .
23 profits have continued to represent about one-third of the turnover ; this is seen as not necessarily the highest proportion of profits to income in the headhunting business as a whole , where estimates of 60% have been made in some cases .
24 But this image of autonomy and of the self can be threatening , too , to women who do have a strong allegiance to feminism ; and the threat intersects with assumptions that have been made in some feminist discourse about who is or is not ‘ really ’ a feminist .
25 In Northern Ireland , as in the rest of the UK , these tables have been met with some controversy and suspicion .
26 The outside walls are virtually complete and the floors have been replaced in some of the towers allowing access to the battlements via spiral staircases .
27 Gone are the days when thick nylon coated wire and barbaric hooks ruled ; thankfully these have been replaced by some topclass products .
28 ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals .
29 Essentially , there are four types of control which have been exercised for some period : first , the " White Paper " controls on pricing , investment and financial targets ; secondly , external financing limits ( EFLs ) imposed by the Treasury ; thirdly , efficiency audits by the Monopolies and Mergers Corn-mission ( MMC ) ; and fourthly , direct controls on management itself .
30 Organised thrombi have been noted in some patients in association with plexiform lesions suggesting chronic thomboemboli as the cause .
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