Example sentences of "have been some [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | But I think that there has been some interesting arguments put forward this morning about the act , there 's more policemen , or sorry , should I say police officers available to Wiltshire . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
4 | If the plant had not closed , there would undoubtedly have been some older workers who would have retired prematurely in any case . |
5 | There will have been some satisfied smiles on the buses back to Bolton last night . |
6 | In years gone by there had been some clever dogs in Baldersdale . |
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 | Although there had been some good reports from other growers we were not happy with crop or , particularly , flavour when we first grew it last year — 1990 . |
9 | There had been some earlier pioneers , notably Robert Sturmy of Bristol , who sent two ill-fated ventures there in 1446 and 1457 , the first ending in the wreck of his ship off Greece and the second in a spoliation by the Genoese , which provoked retaliation against the Genoese in England and the seizure of their goods . |
10 | There had been some authoritarian regimes that were also populist and had been sustained by votes not repressive force . |
11 | Nevertheless , there had been some ugly incidents . |
12 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
13 | Well , there 've been some silly things said about this in the Press , and one or two by our colleagues elsewhere . |
14 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | If the result had gone differently , there would , no doubt , have been some sarcastic offerings concerning our previous week 's cover ( ‘ It 's 1997 , and the Tories are going for their fifth consecutive election victory … |
17 | ‘ There have been some strange reports boyfriend-wise , but it 's been very quiet really . ’ |
18 | 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 . |
19 | There have been some recent changes to the membership of the TCP . |
20 | There have been some serious ructions when they have played table tennis , with rows and cheating and shouting matches . |
21 | ‘ There have been some gloomy articles talking about retirement , but Lester wo n't think that way . ’ |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Transmission is theoretically possible when semen , vaginal fluid or menstrual blood comes into contact with the mouth , particularly if there are bleeding gums , ulcers or infections in the mouth , and there have been some anecdotal reports of this . |
24 | THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GREAT sufferers in popular music — Leonard Cohen , Morrissey , Michael Bolton . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ There have been some nasty accidents in these hills . |
27 | Although there have been some famous poets who occupied this chair ( for example Matthew Arnold and W. H. Auden ) , it has much more commonly been occupied by dons ; and the point at issue when choosing candidates for the Chair of Poetry has very seldom been their views about the subject on which they are supposed to lecture , still less their competence to do so . |
28 | ‘ We did originally conclude that the MiG 25 posed no real threat to our air defences , but it would appear there have been some new developments . |
29 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
30 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |