Example sentences of "been some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries . |
| 2 | While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved . |
| 3 | Er sure there have been some improvements in the materials that we use . |
| 4 | When he next speaks to the chairman of British Rail , will he tell him that , whereas there have been some improvements to the line in the past five years , my constituents are still extremely concerned about punctuality and the cleanliness of trains ? |
| 5 | My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ? |
| 6 | Unfortunately there have been some problems and delay in getting them reprinted , and we have now decided with Margot to re-launch the campaign with a new logo , new stickers and leaflets . |
| 7 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 8 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 9 | ‘ In ophthalmology there have been some problems but a new consultant has been appointed thanks to increased funding made available by this government . |
| 10 | Yes there have been some problems and the City Council |
| 11 | Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion . |
| 12 | There have been some investigations into determining how fully lexicons derived from machine readable dictionaries are able to cover unseen text . |
| 13 | Relating this to actual flows , is restricted by the severe simplifications in deriving the equations , although there have been some experiments showing interesting behaviour . |
| 14 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 15 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 16 | There have been some attempts to do this . |
| 17 | There have , however , been some attempts to go beyond this and to develop conceptions of TNCs not as representatives of the power of the state , as tends to happen within state-centrist analyses , but as independent of and even , on occasion , opponents of the state . |
| 18 | It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered . |
| 19 | ‘ There 've been some fears expressed that we might have an occupation force in Panama , ’ said Senate minority leader Mr Bob Dole . |
| 20 | Yet there have been some areas where functionalist accounts have been elaborated to try to explain the persistence of both stability and of internal tensions within the state apparatus . |
| 21 | So far as elderly people in particular are concerned , there has been relatively little change in patterns of co-residence with relatives until the later part of the twentieth century ; although there have been some fluctuations , the overall pattern shows more continuities than changes . |
| 22 | And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 23 | There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 . |
| 24 | ‘ Obviously , there have been some controversies but we believe the competition is catching the imagination of the fans . ’ |
| 25 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 26 | In the intervening years , there have been some changes , but not nearly enough . |
| 27 | However , as we shall see later , there have been some changes in the more detailed areas . |
| 28 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 29 | On the PC version , which now runs under Windows 2.03 or Windows 386 , there have been some changes to the keyboard shortcuts that , for anyone used to the previous version , are extremely strange . |
| 30 | By the end of the project we could report that there had been some changes and developments in practice . |