Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [conj] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 2 | Its success has been limited because some children will work on projects which interest them but which do not tax them sufficiently . |
| 3 | It has been calculated that some 37% of families would be better off , and 37% worse off , as a result of the change from Community Charge to the Council tax . |
| 4 | The educational background and training of chartered librarians in Britain has not been well understood by teachers , and in particular it has been noticeable how reluctant spokesmen of the School Library Association have been to acknowledge that some librarians have received a special training in work with children of school age , with materials for children of school age , and involving more than an acquaintance with the study of educational systems and methods and of child development . |
| 5 | It has been claimed that some will have to choose between keeping warm and having enough to eat . |
| 6 | However , it has been claimed that some doctors in the province will perform abortions in certain circumstances . |
| 7 | Stepsd have been taken to improve things since Judge Tumim 's report , new accommodation blocks have been built but some are still living in the old quarters . |
| 8 | Initially it had been felt that some families failed to take advantage of the services offered by the welfare state and , despite the basic social services , they fell into poverty and sickness , remained ignorant of the skills and attitudes needed to cope with life and failed to find accommodation for themselves . |
| 9 | For implicatures are not semantic inferences , but rather inferences based on both the content of what has been said and some specific assumptions about the cooperative nature of ordinary verbal interaction . |
| 10 | Nevertheless an important start has been made and some students are being exposed to a segment of African literature . |
| 11 | The importance of such developments will be clear : planning for resource-based learning is a taxing and time-consuming activity for teachers , but if the work can be shared , if the expertise and creativity of colleagues can be made easily available , and if the teacher can have ready access to advice , guidance and encouragement , an important contribution has been made and some of the burden shifted . |
| 12 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |
| 13 | Earlier we had been told that some ‘ lascivious ’ nudes were ‘ a sign of increasing decadence at the centre of an inflexible regime ’ , a phrase with some deeply troubling echoes of vocabulary . |
| 14 | I 've also been told that some of my shots would make very good ‘ New Age ’ album covers , so you never know . |
| 15 | And Hotline has been told that some of them are to question McMenemy 's position . |
| 16 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 17 | Most of it has been demolished but some forms part of Kings Mill House . |
| 18 | The work characteristics and social support were more likely to have been misclassified than some of the other explanatory variables . |
| 19 | Where the operation has been performed but some degree of brain damage has occurred , the child will be similar to one with cerebral palsy . |
| 20 | It has been shown that some schools offer a rehash or revision programme based on pre-registration modules , while others prepare courses in line with the very latest developments available . |
| 21 | Thirdly it has been shown that some sequence selective ligands induce bleomycin cleavage at novel sites [ 24,25 ] . |
| 22 | Some of the poorest public houses have been closed and some are used now for non-licensed purposes . |
| 23 | Until today it had been thought that some staff would stay on to keep the base on standby . |
| 24 | Indeed , a few authorities have retreated from corporate structures-management teams have been disbanded and some chief executives dismissed . |
| 25 | It has already been noted that some science students had made the choice between science and arts on the basis that it was easier to keep up with arts in one 's spare time than it was to keep up with science . |
| 26 | It had long been known that some metals gave colours to flames ; but this was an unreliable test , because colours are hard to describe exactly , and because they are usually masked by a brilliant orange-yellow . |
| 27 | For example , it has been found that some striking perceptual differences in viewing a wire-frame cube ( including , for example , the ease with which certain mental images can be formed of it ) depend on which alternative structural description of the object is assigned to it by the perceiver ( Hinton 1979 ) . |
| 28 | Although there are cases where a significant field difference has only been found when some form of retention interval has been imposed on the subject ( e.g. Dee and Fontenot , 1973 ) it is unlikely that these are the only circumstances in which reliable effects occur ( Schmuller , 1980 ) . |
| 29 | It has been proposed that some extremely simple aspects of the environment — spatial and temporal location of information and its frequency of occurrence — may be coded automatically without the requirement of conscious attention ( Hasher & Zacks , 1979 , 1984 ) . |
| 30 | In November the human rights organization Amnesty International called on Kenya to investigate its human rights record , claiming that hundreds of government opponents had been arrested and some tortured ; several aid donors , including the United States and Denmark , withheld or froze aid disbursements , expressing concern about the government 's treatment of its opponents . |