Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’
2 The failure to find broad patterns relating crime with social and economic change has led some scholars to examine in detail the possibility that government policy may have exercised an independent influence on patterns of crime .
3 Recession has hit some towns harder than others , and Bookland branches reflected this in sales over the Christmas period ranging from 20% up to declines of 15%l ‘ Overall takings will be up by a few points , but volume will be very slightly down . ’
4 But the ban has upset some workers , and union officials say it 's unnecessary .
5 Professor Wolfgang Wild , president of Munich 's Technical University has provided some pointers .
6 According to the Confession , God in his free and eternal counsel has predestined some men to everlasting life , some to everlasting death .
7 However , K. G. Ridgewell has supplied some records for the years 1929 to 1939 for roughly 64,000 acres ( 256 sq .
8 This kind of research about the treatment and academic performance of girls in mixed sex schools has led some feminists to argue in favour of single-sex schooling .
9 It is true that the industry has to bear some costs .
10 But the Saddam effect has emptied some hotels , crippled others , and brought predictions of dismal earnings this year .
11 This chapter has identified some features of the advanced capitalist state that are relevant for an understanding of the logic of state enterprises .
12 This may be important as a recent study has revealed some differences between caecal and faecal flora , an observation which may limit the conclusions made from measurements with faecal inocular .
13 This study has identified some areas in which adults with cystic fibrosis may need extra help , notably in obtaining school leaving qualifications and for young men to achieve independence .
14 By leaving the analysis at the abstract level , Freud has enabled some psychotherapists to oppose all crowd phenomena in religious and political action , to see it all as being pathological .
15 Although more oriented toward an empirical approach , the United States has exhibited some elements of the rationalist .
16 A few weeks before , her brothers had deposited some things in her kitchen for safe-keeping , and while they were there Barbs had called and had asked , in her friendly and inquisitive fashion , what the cardboard boxes contained .
17 Petrographic methods have provided some indications because the grain-size of the white marble from some quarries is very distinctive , but not all quarries can be distinguished in this way .
18 Perhaps this reflects no more than the elevation of masculinity that permeates the canteen culture of the station , but the view that nothing busy happens in the unit and that it is an ‘ easy turn ’ is a sad reflection on how the marginalization of policewomen 's duties has divorced some policemen from the reality of sex crimes .
19 This exchange has established some facts about where the snow is likely to be found and which terrain gives the best ski running .
20 Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks .
21 Inconsistencies in the initial report on the crash have led some investigators to suspect that the US and Canadian governments took part in a cover-up .
22 The fact that the new requirements relating to the upgrading of IDO permissions have placed some minerals operators at a disadvantage in relation to their competitors who may have equally poorly controlled post 1947 planning permissions , needs to be rectified .
23 By the way , that girl 's got some guts .
24 Comments of this type have led some commentators to accept an exaggerated interpretation of the King 's role .
25 The Treasury 's once-formidable forecasting record has taken some knocks of late , so a lot of the predictions in the budget have been carefully pitched on the gloomy side .
26 After Katharine had experienced some problems with the half-pass , Jennie suggested that Katharine try some travers , which would help to improve the half-pass .
27 Her second husband had died Some years before , and now she lived with her son , George Grimsdale and his two young children in a large house at Windsor — 37 Victoria Cottages .
28 As the old pensioner listened to the song , which was now accompanied by the ringing of bells , Fleury saw an expression of tender devotion come over his lined face , and he , too , thought , as the Collector had thought some weeks earlier in the tiger house , what a lot of Indian life was unavailable to the Englishman who came equipped with his own religion and habits .
29 Terminal moraines have blocked some rivers , producing long ribbon lakes .
30 Although studies of children 's explanations have identified some weaknesses , the overall picture , as with many other aspects of cognitive and linguistic development , is of an extremely competent five-year-old who has the basic cognitive and linguistic abilities for giving and understanding explanations of events and actions .
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