Example sentences of "have [adv] be some " in BNC.
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| 31 | There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) . |
| 32 | In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets . |
| 33 | It appeared that although Taigh na Tuir had not been formally put on the market , there had already been some interest shown . |
| 34 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 35 | There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties . |
| 36 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 37 | He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed . |
| 38 | Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his . |
| 39 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 40 | If the movies were to give their stories a realistic social setting and especially a contemporary setting , and if they were to draw on what had always been some of the major preoccupations of popular fiction , then they would have to define their position carefully with regard to some of the major issues of the day . |
| 41 | Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life . |
| 42 | In Picasso 's Horta work there had still been some reference to the earlier , simpler and more rational forms derived from tribal art , but in the paintings done on his return to Paris this aspect is completely abandoned , and in the figure work , the approach becomes once again less rational and more empirical . |
| 43 | The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room . |
| 44 | And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ? |
| 45 | The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts . |
| 46 | There had however been some resistance to what was seen as Russification since at least the 1960s , and in the 1980s the development of nuclear power was a new and very potent source of public disenchantment . |
| 47 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 48 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 49 | There have already been some 10,000 collisions between West and East German cars this year . |
| 50 | There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries . |
| 51 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 52 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 53 | OK , so the Prince and Princess of Wales may have separated , house prices might have plummeted and Luton Town have been relegated — but there have still been some fantastic technological and social advances in the past 12 months . |
| 54 | There have always been some old people who were influential and highly regarded , in contrast to the many others who were treated with ridicule , antagonism , or at best patronized as dependents . |
| 55 | There have always been some students in serious difficulties . |
| 56 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 57 | There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 . |
| 58 | While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well . |
| 59 | There have also been some very encouraging noises from the Pipe stable , which has resulted in a major gamble from 14–1 to 4 's over the last couple of weeks . |
| 60 | 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 . |