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

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1 It has long been argued by some accounting theorists that business accounts should also include an opportunity cost of capital in the income statement .
2 Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases .
3 The idea of positive repentance for corporations has already been implemented in some American states , but the results have not been too impressive , largely because the logic of the sanction has not been followed through .
4 It has already been argued in some detail that foot the bill is semantically transparent .
5 With regard to treatment , this subject has already been covered in some detail .
6 Reference has already been made to some of these changes .
7 The strategy has already been applied with some success ( see box ) to Zurich 's American business .
8 Something of the sort has already been introduced into some English degrees , under the aegis of the Verbal Arts Association , who have made a welcome start with such work .
9 A titled but non-executive chairman has always been seen by some as a desirable ornament on the company 's board , and even more so on its stationery .
10 Neurological deterioration in adulthood has also been recorded in some late and untreated subjects , and in a few in whom a neuropathological report was available the findings suggested active and diffuse demyelination as well as hypomyelination and reduced brain size .
11 Peripheral neuropathy has also been seen in some patients with PSS and neuropathy has been implicated in the initial changes in oesophageal motility .
12 The development of sub-degree courses has also been inhibited to some extent because better staffing ratios , more generous accommodation and higher salaries have accrued from teaching full-time degree level students .
13 Though the system has now been modified for some years , local authorities still play a crucial role in the shaping of the local environment by , for example , forecasting the need for roads for travel to work or leisure , and thus plan on the basis of that need Planners seek to influence behaviour , for example , by deciding that particular zones will be devoted to industrial estates , others to shopping centres and residential use in order to harmonise traffic movement and so on .
14 The form of intonation has now been described in some detail , and we will move on to look more closely at its functions .
15 Furthermore , teaching of expert systems has now been introduced into some of the engineering syllabi in the training schools .
16 It has even been suggested by some historians , that the series gave impetus to the building of the Thames Embankment , which prevented the regular disastrous flooding of the homes of poor people .
17 This has indeed been shown for some chemicals , but the usual effect is to lower resistance to disease , rather than to make allergies more likely .
18 An increased rate of gastric emptying has previously been noted in some patients with DU , and a familial form of the disease associated with rapid gastric emptying has also been described .
19 In the past members wanting to enforce rights against their union were burdened with the costs of litigation , which may have only been mitigated to some extent by the availability of legal aid .
20 And the buildings looked as derelict as if they had all been lifted by some force and dropped again .
21 Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell .
22 The principles underlying the poll tax had long been criticised by some sections of the party .
23 I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’
24 The significance of internal structures had already been accepted in some cases ( otherwise whales and dolphins would be classified as fish rather than as mammals ) , but Cuvier made this central to the classification of the whole animal kingdom .
25 He had always been involved to some extent , but when an old villager came to him and said , ‘ You ca n't let this thing die , your father was a polemaster and we look to you to see this thing does n't stop ’ , he could n't resist the challenge .
26 My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse .
27 But it had clearly been used at some time in the past .
28 So he 's obviously been incapacitated in some way .
29 As a result of some 40 sub-projects involving all the Member States ( and often several groups within each one ) , databases of topography , soils , water resources and quality , biotopes , atmospheric emissions , climate , soil erosion and administrative boundaries have been built up for the whole Community and can be interrelated ; other data sets ( such as land cover , derived from satellite imagery ) have already been compiled for some of the Member States .
30 And these troops have already been reinforced by some 45,000 Syrians and Egyptians , including three armoured divisions .
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