Example sentences of "[been] some [noun sg] " 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 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 3 | I remember once we was called out on the actual called out for actual sighting of s there was supposed to have been some activity over er Bentley so we was all called out and the assembly point was at Tolbertstead 's works in Green Lane and we assembled er in the , at Tolberstead 's and then we was sent out as search groups er from there right across Bentley . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 6 | Agency is irrelevant unless there has been some default on the part of the agent which can be attributed to the principal . |
| 7 | ‘ If the parties have agreed the basis of taxation it would , I think , be an improper exercise of the court 's discretion to direct the taxation on some other basis , unless satisfied that there had been some conduct on the part of the mortgagee disentitling him to costs or to costs on the agreed basis . |
| 8 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Oh , there 's been some development on the outskirts , but the centre has n't altered all that much . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | There has of course been some criticism in the books of the decision in Stilk v. Myrick which is somewhat differently reported in the two sets of reports , but Campbell 's reports have the better reputation and what I have referred to as being the law on this point is referred to as ‘ the present ’ rule in Chitty on Contracts : see , also , Cheshire and Fifoot . |
| 14 | There has been some criticism of general safety precautions on board rigs and platforms out on the north sea . |
| 15 | There 's been some mismanagement of the Mahoney deal right along . |
| 16 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 17 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 18 | His new girl-friend was also examined and nothing abnormal was found , although she did say that there had been some increase in her vaginal discharge for some months . |
| 19 | However , there has possibly been some increase in the number of adult males wintering . |
| 20 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 21 | There 's been some concern about the complete show of publicity particularly for studio theatre show 's the amateur ones . |
| 22 | will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised . |
| 23 | There has been some concern , over the last 10 years , about the involvement of the ethnic minorities in Great Britain in the Criminal Justice System . |
| 24 | There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 . |
| 25 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 26 | There had been some concern in the early Eighties , when one of the national dailies , Today , moved its headquarters into the next-door building . |
| 27 | There has been some concern expressed that these courses offered by the former colleges of education have different objectives from those in art colleges , and might therefore lack professional competence , thereby creating ‘ a dual standard within higher education ’ . |
| 28 | There has been some concern expressed by British Coal on this issue . |
| 29 | There has been some concern that several teachers took tickets to sell but failed to let know whether or not they had sold them which made catering difficult . |
| 30 | 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 . |