Example sentences of "[been] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 2 | There has also been some hasty back-pedalling over the fate of the Cambodian border town of Pailin . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) . |
| 4 | There has , at the same time , been some fruitful cross-fertilisation between sociologists of religion and scholars in other areas of sociology ( such as deviance and political sociology ) and , indeed , in other disciplines , such as history , anthropology , social psychology and ( even ) theology . |
| 5 | She wondered if there had been some procedural delay in charging Theo Sykes . |
| 6 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 7 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 8 | Though they have all faced more complex choices by virtue of having mixed policies towards foreign investors and internal interest groups , there has been some perceptible consistency in approach over time , even though that is at times obscured by administrative and political compromise . |
| 9 | There have also been some striking results from an Australian project which developed methods by which the students ( aged 15-16 ) took greater control of their own learning , including planning the lesson sequences and posing their own questions for enquiry . |
| 10 | It 's , it 's certainly er available nationally and I know there 's been some international interest already as well . |
| 11 | There have been some spectacular successes in land reclamation ( see page 138 of this issue , for example ) . |
| 12 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 13 | Although there have been some useful television series , most television coverage focusses on the sensational , and some major documentaries and plays have compounded the fears and misunderstandings of the public rather than alleviate them . |
| 14 | Alongside these changes in age structure , and partly related to them , have been some substantial changes in the way in which people group themselves into households . |
| 15 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 16 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 17 | At long last Chris Lewis demonstrated his wonderful batting talent , and together with Hick blossoming and Fairbrother blending his natural game to Test demands , there have been some encouraging signs . |
| 18 | In the Philippines , there have been some encouraging developments in the case of Zosimo Alpino . |
| 19 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 20 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 21 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 22 | William of Germany is an ambitious man , and there have been some stupid individuals on the throne here who can not see further than their noses . |
| 23 | Had there been some awful dispute between London and Tehran or had the Americans done something unforgivable ? |
| 24 | You will have noted the additional appointment of at least one wine waiter : the fact that the total wages bill has n't increased by more than about 2.2 per cent suggests that there have been some compensating reductions , probably in the part-time staff , and almost certainly in view of the decline in trade . |
| 25 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 26 | There has been some sharp criticism in some areas of the sporting press — principally on three counts : That the turnover generated does not contribute to the levy ; that it is a snub to the all-weather experiment ; that it is pure exploitation of the punter . |
| 27 | . Erm if and only if you find there 's been some real benefits you . |
| 28 | Following on from this the amount of research carried out into MT was seriously reduced , although there has been some renewed interest ( e.g. SYSTRAN ( Toma , 1977 ) and EUROTRA ( Raw et al , 1988 ) ) . |
| 29 | Undoubtedly there have been some short-term fare benefits for the air traveller , but these are clearly the result of marginal cost pricing policies chasing after survival cash flow which blatantly disregard the ultimate responsibility to capital invested and are thus unsustainable . |
| 30 | ‘ There have been some strange reports boyfriend-wise , but it 's been very quiet really . ’ |