Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 2 | When she had finally been rescued some two hours later it was discovered that the hem of her frock had been chewed away . |
| 3 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been given some great news . |
| 5 | The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea . |
| 6 | Promoted thereafter as a source of cheap and clean energy , neither of which has actually been realised some 40 years on , nuclear power is a source of considerable debate in the late 1980s because of its annihilation potential in the case of warfare and the problems that characterise waste disposal from nuclear power plants ( section 5.4.3 ) . |