Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course oil exporters , e.g. Nigeria and Algeria , have had to revise ambitious economic development programmes whilst some of the Persian Gulf oil exporters have disposed of some of their capital and money market investments . |
| 2 | John Rolfe , conference chairman , said : ‘ People within the industry have known for some time there is a need for such a gathering . |
| 3 | In these circumstances , it is not surprising to find that population loss from inner areas has been running at a lower rate in the 1980s and that the government 's efforts at introducing more private investment have met with some measure of success . |
| 4 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 5 | In New York , incursions on the National Endowment for the Arts have lead to some equally startling volte-faces . |
| 6 | Already , Community funds have led to some of Europe 's best wildlife habitats — for example , Lake Prespa in Greece , home to wolf , bears , otter and rare birds such as the Dalmatian pelican and pygmy cormorant . |
| 7 | Most Latin American countries have embarked on some sort of land reform programme , though these have varied considerably across the region in scope and depth . |
| 8 | Tim James , the council 's urban woodlands officer , said : ‘ Dutch elm disease has killed some of the trees and the high winds have accounted for some of the pine and larch . |
| 9 | It has taken an awful long time to come to fruition — and appears to have needed the departure of founder Ken Olsen to come to fruition , but Digital Equipment Corp is finally to start marketing Apple Computer Inc Macintoshes to major companies in the US , mirroring the arrangement the two companies have had for some time in Europe . |
| 10 | The numbers waiting two years have fallen by some 31 per cent . |
| 11 | Organisations have known for some considerable time that the acquisition , distribution and effective use of information is a key factor in gaining a competitive advantage . |
| 12 | Berg worked out his proportions deliberately , by design , in the same way as other composers have done in some periods since the Middle Ages . |
| 13 | Today , five hundred million years after those jawless armour-laden creatures began to wag their tails and blunder over the muddy bottoms of the ancient seas , the fish have evolved into some 30,000 different species . |
| 14 | My hypothesis is that the conditions of work are such that one mode of relating is that of schizoid withdrawal which means that individuals have to take on some of the characteristics just described . |
| 15 | But all managers have to negotiate at some time so it pays to learn about handling the process well . |
| 16 | The British Isles linger off the shores of continental Europe , uncertain whether to be apart or a part , and their cattle have developed to some degree in isolation but also with many strong two-way links with the cattle of the Continent . |
| 17 | Plans to re-open Lydney Town Station have met with some local opposition . |
| 18 | In general , studies of women prose writers have outstripped by some distance studies of poets apart from Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and the Countess of Winchilsea . |
| 19 | Techniques have changed to some extent in that there are now a number of excellent buoyant legers on the market which allow anchored floaters to be used to more effect . |
| 20 | He and his aunt have contrived with some skill to avoid their neighbours ’ cutlets for the last five years . |
| 21 | Here it is important to know ( a ) whether male and female ideals diverge : whether , that is , the moral outlook people have depends in some causally related way on whether they are male or female , and ( b ) whether the ideals themselves are gender-relative : that is to say , whether what is good in a woman or right for a woman might not be bad in a man , or wrong for a man , and vice versa . |
| 22 | People have known for some time what has been going on , and I 'm surprised it has taken this long to come out into the open . |
| 23 | Continuing nursing care , it 's important to stress here , that the continuing nursing care , the arrangements have relied to some extent on the use of joint finance to ensure that the Health Authority has been able to meet during the year the extra workload , and er , the budget settlement that they have , er , is actually being discussed at the moment with a view to the picking up some of those costs on a continuing basis . |
| 24 | This is just as well because high interest rates have led to some of Wehmiller 's customers in the UK deferring capital purchases in the short term . |
| 25 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 26 | Electricity prices have fallen by some 2 per cent . |
| 27 | WITH millions already shaping up for their New Year diet , doctors have warned against some of Britain 's most popular weight-loss plans . |
| 28 | More recent developments have led to some top quality bags being made with a shingle construction , making them lighter and less bulky than two-layer bags . |
| 29 | Change in firm 's circumstances Where the circumstances of the firm have changed in some material respect which could not reasonably have been foreseen at the date of the agreement . |
| 30 | Scientists have known for some time that fusion reactions between nuclei of deuterium and tritium are more likely if the nuclear spins line up in the same direction . |