Example sentences of "some [noun] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With fewer resources it might in some cases have been necessary , and would certainly have been lawful , to preserve the peace by preventing individual returning miners from attempting to pass through picket lines . |
| 2 | Consequently , a mortgagee would in some cases have been able to realize his security by sale , enter into possession , or appoint a receiver , all without recourse to a court . |
| 3 | Some researchers have been able to make use of their own skills to gain access to a group . |
| 4 | It is quite clear that in securing contracts with the private sector , and getting a good price , some authorities have been quicker off the mark than others , leaving the remainder at the mercy of spot prices and the sort of fee-hiking that can result . |
| 5 | ( Some schools have been able to co-ordinate work with the National Film School , where a script has been written for the personalities in a group and then filmed on location , and this worked effectively . ) |
| 6 | Some parties have been assiduous in doing so , others have not . |
| 7 | Some visitors have been surprised but none have criticised even if they do n't think kinetic sculptures are real art . ’ |
| 8 | A more significant task for class analysis is comprehending the emergence of a proto-middle class grouping narrowly constituted around the toeholds which some blacks have been able to acquire in the professions , mostly those related directly to the welfare state itself — social work , teaching , and now antiracist bureaucracies . |
| 9 | Erm some days have been better than others but I I I have in retrospect enjoyed it , heartbroke though it is . |
| 10 | But today they asked regular shoppers to think back exactly one week , and some replies have been helpful . |
| 11 | If sociobiologists have tended sometimes to describe higher societies ( such as man 's ) too much as if they were simpler ones , some entomologists have been guilty of the reverse . |
| 12 | Some writers have been sceptical of the advantages to women of these advances in contraceptive and abortion technology . |
| 13 | No one any longer recalls where this unusual dish had its origins ; indeed some people have been unkind enough to suggest that it was but recently invented by Mr Rory McGurk at the Dehydrated Rambler , on finding himself with too much ageing shepherd 's pie left on his hands . |
| 14 | Some people have been surprised and relieved to discover that HIV has been suspected by friends and relatives who have been anxious to help , yet afraid to ask . |
| 15 | Some newcomers have been indifferent to the sensibilities of the local population ; others , as we shall see , have been oversensitive to what they believe the needs of the village to be-In each case the effect has been the same : members of the former occupational community , faced with an invasion of ‘ their ’ village by outsiders , have tended to retreat in upon themselves and form a community within a community , cutting themselves off from the separate world of the newcomers . |
| 16 | Some LDCs have been reluctant to rely too heavily on foreign finance ( and investment ) as it might result in undue foreign interference and intervention by richer nations in their countries . |
| 17 | Just as some teachers have been slow to appreciate the value of assessment in learning and teaching , similarly , many Catholic R.E . |
| 18 | Some conveyancers have been loath to prepare the package of documentation set out above because of market conditions . |
| 19 | Some historians have been dismissive of this northern support . |
| 20 | Some historians have been dismissive of this northern support . |
| 21 | They 've given some of the business to local estate agents … but according to a leaked Government document some estimates have been inaccurate . |
| 22 | Some FRNs have been perpetual . |
| 23 | And some home-owners have been shocked by the size of the bill when old and worn pipes water their front lawn from below . |
| 24 | Some sceptics have been quick to see that this could well be a familiar pointer to the future — suggest a service for closure in the hope that the relevant council will come up with the money to reprieve it . |
| 25 | Some schemes have been consumer-led ; others have been initiated by local authority or health service managers or by local councillors ; for others the impetus has come from social researchers ; and still others have come about through joint action by social workers and their managers . |
| 26 | Tomorrow Aileen goes to Mossend in Lanarkshire where some residents have been involved in a ten-year long row with travelling people who live on their doorstep . |
| 27 | There is no real need for any — but recently some paths have been waymarked . |
| 28 | It is probably fair to say that some environmentalists have been careful not to over-identify with those involved in the animal welfare or animal rights movements . |