Example sentences of "there [verb] be some [noun pl] to " in BNC.

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1 As soon as the Conservatives came into office , there had been some signals to the nationalised industries that financial disciplines were likely to displace physical controls on investment .
2 Since the victory of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights at the Annual Labour Conference in the autumn of 1985 , there had been some signposts to Labour 's instincts on these matters .
3 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 ?
4 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 .
5 As far at I could judge it , the general feeling among the present day staff is that there have been some gains to both the prisoners and the system , and some losses , but the gains have been bought dearly and slowly and the losses may be irreversible .
6 There have been some adjustments to the extent of these powers ; in particular , the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 relaxed the controls and shifted more responsibility from the counties to the district ( Catchpole 1982 ) .
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