Example sentences of "been some [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 .
2 From the analysis of what can be defined , within this tendency , as the social forms of art , there has been some development of the analysis of their corresponding social formations .
3 There had been some criticism of the question and answer made by the social worker in support of the hospital admission application form on the question of practicability of getting the recommendation of a practitioner with previous acquaintance with the patient , and those responsible might wish to consider rewording the form so as to direct the social worker 's attention to the question of practicability .
4 There has been some criticism of general safety precautions on board rigs and platforms out on the north sea .
5 There 's been some mismanagement of the Mahoney deal right along .
6 Government officials also confirmed that there had been some forewarning of the rebel attack but that the magnitude of it had been unexpected .
7 That might have been some deterrent of some description .
8 At a news conference on Aug. 11 the mayor of Shenzhen admitted that there might have been some mishandling of the issue of forms , and promised to seek out corrupt officials .
9 From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood .
10 This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up .
11 From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist .
12 In all the equipment mentioned so far , there seems to have been some kind of mathematical experience inherent .
13 He 'd been some kind of engineer .
14 There must have been some kind of remorse .
15 When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops .
16 Dinner consisted of pea soup , which Millie found quite nice — she could taste there had been some kind of pork boiled in the liquid — followed by a meat pudding .
17 There has unquestionably been some kind of collusion between Jesus and Judas .
18 On the basis of these figures , there has clearly been some kind of shift in the axis of the economy from manufacturing to services .
19 There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering .
20 What I 'm asking is , could there have been some kind of mistake here , at your end ? ’
21 The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room .
22 There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling .
23 In between the Oaks and the Elms darted the Silver Birches , slender and frivolous-looking , with wild , shining white hair that streamed out behind them and mischievous features and trailing garments that might have been some kind of cloth , but might as easily have been simply their pale leaves .
24 Here he encountered Charles I 's young daughter Elizabeth [ q.v. ] , to whom he seems to have been some kind of chaplain and with whose virtues he was much taken .
25 It must of enlightened them on what the scriptures meant , by the sacred secret , cos before it must of been some kind of weird mystery to them
26 There may just have been some hope of effecting change through organization , especially when the numbers of women were still low ( about 300 at the end of the 18805 ) , though the means chosen were not welcomed by the rank and file of the men 's union .
27 All these suggest that there has been some degree of real tooth loss in these predator assemblages due to digestion , and since this loss is also accompanied by loss of bone , it is considered that this is the most extreme degree of breakage in these comparisons .
28 ‘ There would have been some degree of overlap .
29 Indeed , there has already been some degree of rationalisation of SROs .
30 In almost all villages however there has been some element of change , and usually there has been a set of related changes in which social polarization is accompanied by segregation and a shift of political power to a new ruling group , dominated by in-migrants .
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