Example sentences of "had [been] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 2 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 3 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 4 | There had been some redistribution of income . |
| 5 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 6 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 7 | There had been some hope that the law would distinguish between such deals , part of normal prudent treasury management , and others , essentially speculative , as if the council were in the finance business itself . |
| 8 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 9 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |
| 10 | There had been some appalling bad luck at a place not far from Dunkerque called Furnes . |
| 11 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 12 | Alida went out and stared at the empty letter cage in the hall , called sharply after the man , that there had been some mistake . |
| 13 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If only there had been some worked examples , we may have been able to follow the article . |
| 16 | Although there had been some dissenters , international approval was given through the London Dumping Convention , an annually reviewed agreement signed by forty-six countries . |
| 17 | There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time . |
| 18 | There had been some notable public defections from the Thatcher camp by some of her erstwhile ardent supporters — including Edwina Currie and Emma Nicholson — but many MPs clearly feared possible retribution from their constituency parties , most of which were strongly supportive of Mrs Thatcher . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 22 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 23 | The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died . |
| 24 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 25 | However , there had been some deterioration in her mood over the previous 2 days . |
| 26 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 27 | There had been some acid , some purple haze , going round the school recently , and a couple of boys were tripping . |
| 28 | Then , just when I was wondering if there had been some mistake , a man came up full of apologies , ‘ I 'm so sorry , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Since the victory of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights at the Annual Labour Conference in the autumn of 1985 , there had been some signposts to Labour 's instincts on these matters . |
| 30 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |