Example sentences of "have [been] some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | These centres may attract finance from a variety of sources , mainly local authorities , and there has been some government funding . |
| 32 | Silly me — I had thought that that was party policy , but unfortunately there has been some turning of the tide . |
| 33 | There has been some speculation that Mohammed 's father was a member of a Nazarean sect and that Mohammed himself was raised in Nazarean traditions . |
| 34 | However , there has been some decentralization of office employment since the mid-1960s , with a redistribution away from London to the outer-metropolitan areas . |
| 35 | An even more extreme form of this way of thinking is to assume that there has been some type of directive force in evolution such that humans represent the ‘ pinnacle ’ of progress . |
| 36 | THERE has been some correspondence going on , it seems , in the American journal , Business Week about the savings to be made by discouraging smoking at work , William L. Weis , who is associate professor of accounting at Seattle University , lists them . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | It is thought that there has been some element of a share dealing ring in the Dunsdale case . |
| 39 | Although there has been some success in attempts to halt such ceremonies , or at least to make them less dangerous or humiliating , there is evidence that they are a perennial aspect of group behaviour unlikely to be eradicated . |
| 40 | There has been some success in the initial aims of the project and at least some aspects are worth developing further . |
| 41 | But in a majority of cases there has been some success , and in many instances the outcome has been very successful . |
| 42 | In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need . |
| 43 | There has been some expansion , too , of opportunities for women in the white-collar categories of employment ; |
| 44 | There has been a contraction and closure of plants , especially in the central urban areas , while there has been some expansion elsewhere . |
| 45 | In recent years , there has been some return to the classical view that the real wage is too high and that unemployment is ‘ voluntary ’ in the sense that it is caused by workers refusing to accept wage cuts . |
| 46 | More recently there has been some support for an approach which interprets the contract as a whole but it is by no means unanimous . |
| 47 | Recently , however , there has been some criticism and some arguments about its structure , in addition to the more long-standing discussion of how far ministers can dominate their departments and how far civil service practices and attitudes have proved too much for the politicians . |
| 48 | There has been some criticism of general safety precautions on board rigs and platforms out on the north sea . |
| 49 | Furthermore , we keep hearing about other conferences being planned in Paris and in Hannover , Panofsky 's home town , and then we heard there has been a proposal that the International Congress of the History of Art in Berlin ( 15–20 July ) should have a whole section devoted to Panofsky , ( although there has been some disagreement about this recently ) . |
| 50 | But as Fairbairns points out , there has been some disagreement as to where the solutions to the subordinate position of women lie . |
| 51 | While there has been some disagreement over the incidence of EEG spindling in neonates , the consensus of reports indicates that the development of spindles in the EEG of normal sleeping infants occurs between the end of the second month and end of the fourth , and the appearance of persistent spindling earlier or later than this time window tends to be associated with other clinical abnormalities . |
| 52 | The guide was written by Des Hannigan and there has been some friction between the two in recent years , caused to some extent by Rowland and Mark Edwards ' new-routing techniques . |
| 53 | There has been some lobbying for the manuscripts now to stay exactly where they have always been , which is in the princely Hofbibliothek in Donaueschingen , surrounded by the greatest private library of printed books ( 500 incunables and 130,000 later works ) in Germany . |
| 54 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 55 | Either there has been some mistake , or else Acamar has faded . |
| 56 | The effect of falling school rolls and DES cuts in teacher-training quotas has been some reduction in the numbers of students on courses ; however , recruitment in 1981 was still considerable and , in 1981 , the polytechnics had 1,300 students enrolled on to teacher-training courses . |
| 57 | As for changes over time in spatial disparities within the EC other than those generated by the accession of new members , Boltho ( 1989 ) demonstrates that from 1950 onwards there has been some reduction in the degree of regional income imbalance . |
| 58 | There has been some discussion in the literature as to the most appropriate way of expressing the degree of lateral asymmetry which a subject shows in an experiment . |
| 59 | There has been some discussion in the literature as to how left-right differences in performance should be measured . |
| 60 | It was the Prague School that unified Formalism and Saussurean linguistics in a single theoretical programme , or at least — as there has been some discussion as to the exact nature of the Prague school 's debt to Saussure — reformulated Formalist literary theory within the framework of a linguistics which shared most of Saussure 's fundamental principles , and to which they attached the label structuralism . |