Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 2 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 4 | ‘ I HAVE been portrayed as some sort of tyrant landlady . |
| 5 | Recently he has acted as consultant on the hit West End musical Miss Saigon ( transfer to Broadway expected soon ) , the story of a love affair between a GI and a Vietnamese bar girl which has been condemned by some critics as exploitative . |
| 6 | In Yip Kai-foon the Privy Council rejected the solution which has been adopted in some jurisdictions of directing the jury to convict of the offence which they consider to be more probable . |
| 7 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 8 | One pattern of language use which has been observed in some bilingual communities is that of reciprocal language use . |
| 9 | They were as follows : ( 1 ) there is a dispute or a difference between the parties which has been formulated in some way or other ( see 15.5 ) ; ( 2 ) the dispute or difference has been remitted by the parties to the person to resolve in such a manner that he is called on to exercise a judicial function ( see 15.6 ) ; ( 3 ) where appropriate , the parties must have been provided with an opportunity to present evidence and/or submissions in support of their respective claims in the dispute ( see 15.7 ) ; and ( 4 ) the parties have agreed to accept his decision ( see 15.8 ) . |
| 10 | The creamy bedroom carpet is echoed in the bathroom which has been furnished with some of the antique fixtures and fittings gleaned on Jake 's auction tours . |
| 11 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 12 | It is suitably complex to have taken 600 people five years to develop and succeeds its 10-year-old predecessor , R2 which has been installed in some 1,500 worldwide sites . |
| 13 | Missionaries found that the book , which has been translated into some 200 languages , had an equal success in Africa , Asia and the Pacific and that the appeal of the story of a pilgrimage was universal . |
| 14 | One of the most promising directions , which has been pursued by some large advertising agencies , and which has been extensively talked about , is so-called ‘ lifestyle ’ research . |
| 15 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 16 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 17 | Examples were used in the report to indicate the approaches to enlist the help of parents which had been adopted in some schools . |
| 18 | That suspicion of the referendum or plebiscite which we noted was partly based on the fact that it is a device which had been used by some dictators and despots to give their rule at least the semblance of a basis in popular consent . |
| 19 | Over 40,000 people staged a demonstration in Buenos Aires on Dec. 30 against the decision , which had been forecast for some time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In part this is concerned with the omission of key features of reality , such as uncertainty , the role of expectations , and market imperfections , which have been discussed to some extent in earlier Lectures . |
| 25 | There are several possible approaches to multiplication and division in fixed-point binary , all of which have been used at some time . |
| 26 | How are you enjoying being turned into some blobs of pink and mauve on a canvas ? ’ |
| 27 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 28 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 29 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 30 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |