Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [conj] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A year long investigation by a US Congress subcommittee , prompted by last year 's Perrier scare , has claimed that some bottled waters may be less safe than tap water . |
| 2 | But the practice market has collapsed and some less fortunate firms are being forced into entering individual voluntary arrangements ( IVAs ) to protect themselves from their creditors while trying to straighten out their finances . |
| 3 | Although Martin has said that some bass players like to be able to significantly alter their sound while they are actually playing on stage , I 've never seen the need to have all the gubbins on the bass to do that , then have lots more gubbins on the amp to do more of the same . |
| 4 | A BRITISH minister has revealed that some 300 000 names of people who have committed , or are suspected of committing , offences under immigration law have been entered onto a computerised index used by the immigration service . |
| 5 | However , previous research by this group has shown that some diabetic patients suffer a decrease in visual sensitivity that precedes loss of acuity and retinal changes , and the present study is designed to assess the prevalence of this preclinical dysfunction . |
| 6 | Less work has been done with animal models , but recent work from India has shown that some homoeopathic remedies in various potencies displayed anti-viral activity in developing chick embryos , whereas other remedies had no anti-viral effect in mice . |
| 7 | Research has shown that some old people can not survive the emotional shock of moving to the Home and die within a few weeks . |
| 8 | This has meant that some detailed provisions in standard forms of contract have required amendment . |
| 9 | Richard Taruskin has suggested that some initial American resistance to the a cappella theory of chanson performance in the Middle Ages was inevitable because American ensembles of the 1970s possessed very few singers who could be imagined giving a satisfactory demonstration of such a performing technique . |
| 10 | Fifty people were estimated to have died and some 200 were injured , with many still unaccounted for , after 186 earth tremors struck mountain villages , according to agency reports on Aug. 20 . |
| 11 | Although the invitation was surprisingly withdrawn the following day , Sweden had ensured that some free trade momentum would be maintained . |
| 12 | United States trade associations such as CBEMA ( hardware ) and ADAPSO ( software ) and others had worried that some foreign nations might impose usage-related charges on data transmission ; West Germany was suspect in this regard . |
| 13 | On the other hand , a number of studies ( Houghton , 1973 ; Evason , 1980 ; Pahl , 1985 ; Bradshaw and Millar , 1991 ) have found that some lone mothers , typically between a quarter and a third , say that they feel better-off as lone mothers than they did as married women because being alone means that they themselves have control over their ( albeit limited ) resources . |
| 14 | But recently some new players have arrived while some older , more established names have either pulled out or are in the process of winding down their portfolios . |
| 15 | It 's estimated that some fifty thousand workers took part in the strike , which paralysed the country and threw the new government of Senora Chamorro into crisis . |
| 16 | We have seen how the findings of Barry Hall and John Cairns have suggested that some genetic codes occur more often when they are useful than when they are not . |