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

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1 ‘ These two cases , then , make it perfectly clear that when he is sued , as in the present case , on the covenants contained in the original lease , the original tenant 's only possible defences are either : ( 1 ) that he has performed the covenants ; or ( 2 ) that the relevant assignee has performed the covenants ; or ( 3 ) there has been some other operation conducted upon the lease — for example surrender of the whole — which has put a complete end to the liability to pay rent .
2 People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution .
3 There has been some good news on the jobs front today .
4 If there has been some new EC directive on the interpretation of election results , we should be told .
5 All the authorities subsequent to Cumber v. Wane ( 1721 ) 1 Stra. 426 which were relied upon by the appellant at your Lordships ' Bar ( such as Sibree v. Tripp ( 1846 ) 15 M. & W. 23 ; Curlewis v. Clark ( 1849 ) 3 Exch. 375 and Goddard v. O'Brien ( 1882 ) 9 Q.B.D. 37 ) have proceeded upon the distinction that , by giving negotiable paper or otherwise , there has been some new consideration for a new agreement , distinct from mere money payments in or towards discharge of the original liability .
6 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 .
7 There has been some administrative devolution , to which the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East referred .
8 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 ) ) .
9 Even if there has been some limited Government recognition of this fact , changes in the taxation structure have lagged badly behind changes in the market place .
10 ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’
11 The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring .
12 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 .
13 A considerable number of sites fall into this category , even when there has been some aerial photography and excavation , as for example at Braintree and Horncastle .
14 Thus there has been some significant organizational development in the industry even since 1985 when Table 11.1 was drawn up .
15 There has been some interesting talk about defenders which is all very good BUT remember the source of the info about Jobson/ Bardsley was the News of the World .
16 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 .
17 Things go badly wrong when there has been some extreme untoward event such as a fire , an earthquake or a bomb , alternatively an unanticipated combination of faults may occur within the plant itself .
18 There has been some bad press in recent years about the use of foam in cavity wall insulation and its possible side-effects on people 's health .
19 It also went to Colombia , where there is a similarly coloured but unrelated Blanco Orejinegro , and there has been some experimental crossing recently of British Whites with Brahmans .
20 Under rational expectations , movements in aggregate demand can affect real output if those movements are random because , faced with an unexpectedly high price for the good on her island , the typical supplier will at least partly infer that there has been some positive , relative demand shock on her island .
21 I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
22 He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did .
23 In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay .
24 That must have been some key phrase to establish identity .
25 I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people .
26 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 .
27 There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State .
28 If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way .
29 Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into .
30 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 .
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