Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [vb pp] [verb] some [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis . |
| 2 | The charity for the elderly has been forced to reduce some of its activities at Whyte House on the Waterside due to lack of funds . |
| 3 | The provisions determining exactly whether or not anything has been added have , predictably , already proved so unclear that a Revenue statement of practice ( SP5/92 ) has been issued to resolve some of the more obvious difficulties of interpretation . |
| 4 | WWF has greatly expanded its conservation work , and in response to requests from supporters , a series of leaflets has been published outlining some of the main issues . |
| 5 | ‘ A motor vehicle must have been used to take some of this property . |
| 6 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 7 | Miller had been forced to transplant some of these just as they were coming into flower , but by cutting off all the buds , placing them in a wet trench and watering continuously until they became established , he was able , in August and September to pick flowers ‘ as fair as those produced in June ’ . |
| 8 | Even before his death in February 1790 Joseph , ill and discouraged , had been driven to revoke some of his most unpopular measures . |
| 9 | By the spring of 1940 the War Office had been persuaded to put some of these ideas into practice and a number of companies were raised to act independently in guerrilla roles . |
| 10 | The club have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite in the Dubai Sevens to be held on November 19 and 20 when they will face one of the toughest rugby sevens line-ups ever assembled . |
| 11 | Orrell have been invited to join some of rugby 's elite and take part in the Dubai Sevens on November 19 and 20 . |
| 12 | Understanding of the disorder has progressed in all these directions , and several attempts have been made to combine some of these ideas in an integrative model ( e.g. Akiskal , 1979 ; Gilbert , 1984 ) . |
| 13 | BLUE Velvet have been forced to cancel some of their gigs because of a lack of new material . |
| 14 | The yachts , themselves , have been designed to recoup some of the costs . |
| 15 | Other , ‘ professional ’ drugs have been designed to overcome some of these problems , but they have often been designed to have even more worrying characteristics . |
| 16 | Several reasons have been proposed to explain some of this discrepancy . |
| 17 | They keep a low profile here , but this person and her colleagues have been chosen to perform some of the most important jobs on the station , though they 're never seen . |