Example sentences of "some [noun] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities have suggested a change in diet for such cats , but there seems little logic in this unless the new diet helps to reduce boredom . |
| 2 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 3 | But it has also begun to create a corporate culture where some companies have become a kind of economic prison where senior management can legally abuse and ill-treat their employees , and silence any protest with the threat of the sack . |
| 4 | But some insects have found a way of eating the leaves . |
| 5 | Some plants have developed a method of defence against this kind of attack . |
| 6 | Though some suppliers have made a point of stressing the ergonomic aspects of their products , many supply inadequate information on their equipment . |
| 7 | Man works far below his capacity ; some writers have put a figure on the deficiency but it is of little value to you to make quantitative estimates . |
| 8 | Some firms have adopted a formula which reserves a power to prevent more than one partner departing in any given period ( say a year ) , with complementary provisions to determine priority as between notices served on the same day , though in these frantic head-hunting times when whole departments may be recruited at a stroke , such provisions are realistically best seen as providing a basis for negotiation ( and perhaps financial adjustment by way of compensation ) . |
| 9 | Some people have made a god of it . |
| 10 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 11 | Nevin said : ‘ Some people have put a question mark over our away form but we have n't always got what we deserved so to beat a side of Leicester 's calibre is very heartening . |
| 12 | Since some critics have made a link between Cockrill and Peter Lanyon , it is appropriate that this exhibition tours to the Newlyn Art Gallery in June and will be seen at Exeter 's Spacex Gallery and at the Plymouth Art Centre . |
| 13 | Later on , and particularly in 1950 , one might wonder whether the particulars of US policy towards Vietnam had been swamped in the generalities of across-the-board resistance to communism ; but even before some critics have discerned a militarization and globalization of US policy , and before the emotional climate of the US changed , one may see , as a piece of sober analysis , the beginning of a policy based on certain not altogether unfounded assumptions about communism , China , and the objectives of the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | It 's embarrassing and they take advantage especially at parties where some girls have had a lot to drink . ’ |
| 15 | Some scholars have suggested a site near Inverness ; others the junction of the rivers Tay and Isla . |
| 16 | Some stores have reported a drop in trade since vehicles were barred from Skinnergate and High Row last Monday , councillors have been told . |
| 17 | Some historians have estimated a slave population in eighth-century Sussex of almost twenty thousand . |