Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her interest has been aroused by some new paintings which she has seen in a SoHo gallery , which a friend has compared unfavourably with the work of Lee Krasner . |
| 2 | ‘ I am disappointed for the crowd because generally they have been treated to some good football here and all our performance lacked was some goals . |
| 3 | A mystery surrounded his death which was assiduously played up by the media in suggesting every kind of melodramatic possibility , the favourite being that poor Hugh Gaitskell had been stabbed with the sharp ferrule of an umbrella , the end of which had been treated with some poisonous concoction . |
| 4 | The confusion over Anglo-American relations has been compounded by some influential Americans , including Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger , who subsequently argued that the United States should have backed the British over Suez in 1956 . |
| 5 | Its proper specification has only been given for some simple cases . |
| 6 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 7 | After a while he simply lay there , numb , half conscious , his hands making hopeless little passes in the air , until Ellwood stopped , suddenly , his arms raised , as if a connection had been broken in some terrible machine . |
| 8 | Locomotives and the routes themselves have always attracted authors in profusion but in recent years that trend has been punctuated by some useful and illuminating titles on passenger and freight vehicles . |
| 9 | A multitude of household effects , iron bars , timbers , glass , bricks , a chimney stack , seemed to have been shaken by some giant hand and strewn any which way . |
| 10 | Examination of records available on smoking related activity in the control schools indicated that pupils in half of the schools had been exposed to some incidental and unplanned smoking education through events such as No Smoking Day or through associated teaching in home economics or biology . |
| 11 | Occasionally a light showed silver , faint in one of the streets below , and but for that , and for the sounds as their feet struck the timbers of a bridge , they might have been walking in some open courtyard instead of in narrow alleys raised between the walls of tall buildings . |
| 12 | This draft response indicates which DTAC responses he has taken into account , and any member whose DTAC 's response has arrived late or has been omitted for some other reason can ensure that relevant points are not missed . |
| 13 | Sophia tried to see her sister as a spinster and it was not so very difficult — a rather eccentric spinster not even looking as if she might once have been ennobled by some tragic love affair . |
| 14 | There had n't been a Friday or Saturday in the last year which had n't been occupied by some social gathering , where he 'd mingled with Vanessa 's friends . |
| 15 | One of the most promising directions , which has been pursued by some large advertising agencies , and which has been extensively talked about , is so-called ‘ lifestyle ’ research . |
| 16 | For example , the distinction between pre-clinical and clinical studies has been eroded in some medical courses . |
| 17 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 18 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 19 | I think his system had already been weakened by some other compound , anyway . ’ |
| 20 | For this was not the anger of the cripple , who can never be sure if he has been shaped by some vengeful god or made accidentally by a purposeless universe . |
| 21 | Language modules have been incorporated into some general SVQs as optional elements . |
| 22 | But this image of autonomy and of the self can be threatening , too , to women who do have a strong allegiance to feminism ; and the threat intersects with assumptions that have been made in some feminist discourse about who is or is not ‘ really ’ a feminist . |
| 23 | They frequently appear to have been written for some private academic argument rather than to inform prospective students . |
| 24 | You will soon realise that this is no ordinary bishop 's letter , since it has been written by some young people from this deanery . |
| 25 | It must have been written by some exasperated editor receiving streams of verbose articles from amateur authors . |
| 26 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 27 | He also put more emphasis on public worship , prayers , and the sacraments than most of his contemporaries , and played down the role of preaching as a means of edification ; for these reasons , Hooker has been seen by some ecclesiastical historians such as Peter Lake as ‘ close to the ideological origins of Arminianism ’ . |
| 28 | An even more limited approach has been adopted in some other cases . |
| 29 | Deep inside she seemed to have been waiting like some long-ago damsel in distress , waiting for her knight to rescue her . |
| 30 | Swirling snowclouds and rain strengthened the illusion that there was no outside world anymore , and that they had all been transported to some frozen Hell . |