Example sentences of "[been] a [noun sg] of some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 2 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 3 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 4 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 5 | So the man worth just under £2 might well have been a person of some consequence in the community . |
| 6 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 7 | Chimaeras have always been a source of some horror . |
| 8 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 9 | The whole question of the ideal size for a public library authority has been a matter of some controversy in Britain since the publication of the McColvin report in 1943 . |
| 10 | The nature of that development , however , has been a matter of some dispute . |
| 11 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 12 | Whether to reclaim or reject this term has been a matter of some debate in Black communities . ) |
| 13 | Hugh Morris 's future has inevitably been a matter of some debate . |
| 14 | Before this speech he had carried Neville Chamberlain with him in such rejection , but a week later , when there had already been a period of some pressure against the pound in the foreign exchange markets , Chamberlain thought that events would ‘ beat down Baldwin 's native instinct against coalition ’ . ’ |
| 15 | It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged . |