Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] some [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That must have been some key phrase to establish identity . |
| 2 | Well I do n't know that must have been some clever fella to do it did n't he ? |
| 3 | There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality . |
| 4 | As a result , there might have been some minor publicity , but how right my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) was : people would have talked about there being no smoke without fire . |
| 5 | That is , there might have been some discernible difference in content between them . |
| 6 | And when she went into the garden all she could see were some fading lupins and irises , not enough to fill one vase . |
| 7 | I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people . |
| 8 | The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading . |
| 9 | Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo . |
| 10 | For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold . |
| 11 | Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into . |
| 12 | He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did . |
| 13 | Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension . |
| 14 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 15 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 16 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 17 | There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested . |
| 18 | There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe . |
| 19 | If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way . |
| 20 | She would have been some forty minutes late , and as she had no intention of ringing home to leave a message , Parr would be in a quandary . |
| 21 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 22 | There will have been some satisfied smiles on the buses back to Bolton last night . |