Example sentences of "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 notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | It may have been idyllic to some but evidently not to the people who lived as close to the land as James Seely did . |
| 7 | And though they too set social connection and sporting activities — hunting , combat , riding — above literacy , nevertheless it was possible to acquire learning at them ; the opportunities exploited by William V of Aquitaine , William the Conqueror , Robert the Frisian , and Fulk le Réchin — all regarded as educated men — must have also been available to some of those who were brought up with them . |
| 8 | Despite the inherent difficulties in comparative work it has been argued that an international perspective has always been implicit to some extent in the study of industrial relations . |
| 9 | 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 . |