Example sentences of "have [been] [adj] to some " in BNC.
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1 | Resorting to personal ties to survive or advance is a mechanism which has been used to some effect over the generations , but which prevents people turning to organisations or political activity which might , in the long run , prove more effective in solving their problems . |
2 | me patient should have the right sort of symptoms and should have been subject to some stressful emotional experience before the onset of the illness . |
3 | The effect of this may have been beneficial to some of the British potters , especially in Oxfordshire where good quality imitations of provincial samian vessels were produced . |
4 | ‘ I expect you 've heard the rumours about us seeking further investment for the station — you might even have been privy to some inside information . ’ |
5 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
6 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |