Example sentences of "have [been] some " in BNC.

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31 There may well have been some particularly sensitive elements in what you have thought about .
32 ‘ The next step should have been some form of close supervision . ’
33 It might have been some sort of optician 's test thing , for all I could say , or a kids ’ puzzle .
34 There must have been some point of contact .
35 The point is , there would have been some validity to her claim that she was making a point through music … if she had made one .
36 You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall .
37 If the plant had not closed , there would undoubtedly have been some older workers who would have retired prematurely in any case .
38 There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality .
39 There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe .
40 There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested .
41 While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems .
42 When for once it is stated that Sir Raynold , the chaplain of Ridlington , Norfolk , owned a house and three acres , the reason must have been some difficulty over determining the value , which in this case is omitted .
43 And it must have been some comfort to her , a few months later , to receive a picture of Anna , healthy , happy , as she could never have been in the orphanage .
44 In the past , when such knowledge was inaccessible or dangerous to promulgate , there might have been some justification .
45 For the Church of the fourth century , there would almost certainly have been some rueful and grudging admission that Constantine was a Messiah who had succeeded where Jesus had failed , and that the Messiah as represented by both Constantine and Jesus was indeed a military and political figure — not a god , but a king with a mandate to govern .
46 In the non-chronicle sources there are suggestions of rivalry over Calais , where Hastings had replaced Rivers as lieutenant in 1471 , and there may also have been some friction over the Ferrers inheritance , although this does not seem to have been a major issue .
47 I was hoping it might have been some tobacco .
48 On the first of these there must inevitably have been some continuation of the raising of teacher-awareness initiated by the involvement of teachers in the library committee and in making submissions to it for inclusion in the proposal .
49 I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
50 There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union .
51 That is , there might have been some discernible difference in content between them .
52 There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up
53 For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold .
54 ‘ But there must have been some word , ’ she said impatiently , ‘ some message . ’
55 In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay .
56 It must have been Good it must have been some sort of carbonate , and the salt that was formed was from the hydrochloric acid was calcium chloride , so it must have been ?
57 Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo .
58 With regard to the relics , I was prepared at least to consider the possibility that there could have been some sort of automatic response in the nerves and muscle fibres triggered by the lightning .
59 ‘ There would have been some degree of overlap .
60 ‘ It must have been some idea the architect had .
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