Example sentences of "has [been] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there has been some attempt also to undercut the basic level of the defenders ' case . |
| 2 | Thankfully , no , there has been some progress . |
| 3 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 4 | There has been some fairly loose and wide-ranging sniping about inept leadership ( Carrick ) and incompetence ( the committee ) . |
| 5 | Although there has been some shift in the 1980s to the political right in the United States and West Germany , the socialist share of the vote has hardly changed over the two decades in Austria , Scandinavia , West Germany , and Italy . |
| 6 | Despite the 1974–8 Kenya Development Plan stating ‘ there has been some counter productive harassment of these enterprises , which will be promptly ended ’ , in 1989 a complete informal vehicle maintenance site was abruptly closed down by the city government . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This may be part of the explanation in Britain , where there has been some improvement in the potential of the economy . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses . |
| 13 | If there has been some new EC directive on the interpretation of election results , we should be told . |
| 14 | Both these are sometimes slightly exaggerated : there has been some decentralisation since 1983 and , as the period of cohabitation demonstrated , the President 's power can be compromised if he is faced by a hostile majority in the Assemblée Nationale . |
| 15 | There has been some expansion , too , of opportunities for women in the white-collar categories of employment ; |
| 16 | In countries like Colombia and Venezuela , there has been some tinkering with the traditional agrarian system , but on the other hand , Cuba has experienced a complete restructuring of the agrarian sector . |
| 17 | The gallery is frail now and there has been some reconstruction , which is continuing with the whole of the property . |
| 18 | Although many elements of that model still exist today , there is also quite widespread dissatisfaction with it , and there has been some attempt to find out why , and to modify these elements . |
| 19 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 20 | In this country there has been some experimenting with different sorts of cell groups . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 23 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 24 | It seems that drop-outs at this early stage have remained a serious problem , particularly in rural areas , though there has been some improvement in the retention rates over the whole primary cycle ( SSA to Standard Five ) . |
| 25 | There has been some controversy in recent years about how best to analyse contingency data . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | And there has been some encouragement from within industry , reflected , for example in Business in the Community ( BiC ) , founded in 1982 and sponsored by firms such as IBM and Marks and Spencer as well as supported by the DoE and the Manpower Services Commission ( later the Training Commission , itself absorbed by the Department of Employment in 1988 ) . |
| 28 | There has been some dispute about this text , based on the belief that only posthumous children of the deceased himself were admissible on succession . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |