Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [vb pp] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife Pam has been for some time aware that I have been having an on-going relationship with Suzannah , who I believe is known to some of you . |
| 2 | Do be prepared for some honest advice , though . |
| 3 | I now turn to the second problem : If what we do is determined by some grand unified theory , why should the theory determine that we draw the right conclusions about the universe rather than the wrong ones ? |
| 4 | It may be that everything we do is determined by some grand unified theory . |
| 5 | Information about how letters combine is extracted from some source text or lexicon . |
| 6 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with meanings , intentions and accents of others , and any utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other . ’ |
| 7 | The words we use come to us already imprinted with the meanings , intentions and accents of others , our speech is a tissue of citations and echoes and allusions ; and every utterance we make is directed towards some real or hypothetical Other who will receive it . |
| 8 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been approached by some welfare organization about group bookings . |
| 10 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 11 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 13 | The exercises that follow are based on some of the easier freestyle manoeuvres , but the great thing about freestyle is you can invent your own tricks . |
| 14 | If his methodology and his findings have been questioned by some ( for example , Donaldson , 1978 ) this does not reduce our debt to him . |
| 15 | Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements . |
| 16 | These have been viewed with some irritation by Northern regions who feel that their needs have been ignored in the planning of the Tunnel , and that pampered southerners should be prepared to pay the price of their economic success . |
| 17 | In the absence of reliable evidence about their attitudes and behaviour , the trade union officials have been viewed by some as a force for moderation and conservatism , by others as faithfully reflecting the views of their members , and by others as industrially and politically more militant than the members . |
| 18 | In recent years several British ensembles have begun to draw upon an ‘ exotic ’ instrumentarium of this kind once again , but they have been marginalized to some degree . |
| 19 | Furthermore , in recent years dozens of rivers have been contaminated by some 1,500 tons of mercury used by miners to extract gold . |
| 20 | Questions have been raised by some people as to the theatrical validity and ethics of Weller 's methods — putting people on stage to recreate their own real-life experiences . |
| 21 | My doubts have been fuelled by some interesting ( but fragmentary ) empirical work on the costs of transmitting information , how spillovers are transmitted between firms , and , finally , the phenomena of technology trading and other forms of managed technology flows . |
| 22 | The various fungal diseases which manifest themselves upon fish are almost exclusively secondary infections , developing on areas of the body which have been damaged in some way . |
| 23 | The difficulties in comparing the two modes of treatment have been understood for some time . |
| 24 | Over the last decade , benefits for the unemployed have been cut in some 50 different ways so that the living standards of those out of work have fallen even further behind those of other citizens . ’ |
| 25 | Laws to prohibit discrimination on the ground of disability and to advance equal opportunities for disabled Britons have been mooted for some time . |
| 26 | The source at the magazine confirmed later : ‘ Paris Match has been approached and pictures of that nature have been seen by some members of staff . |
| 27 | Moreover , the high estimates of press influence on international relations which were widespread by the beginning of the twentieth century , and which have been repeated by some historians , were much exaggerated . |
| 28 | In the paranoid , anguished silence you surmise , or maybe you were told later , that these heavies have been swindled in some drug deal in the scuzzy wine lodge next door , and that they are out to commit violence against the perpetrator . |
| 29 | Data have been obtained from some 1,550 diary respondents and preliminary analyses reported in the committee 's journal , The Quarterly Journal of Social Affairs , Volume 2 , Issue 1 , pp. 387-413 . |
| 30 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |