Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well some of the football Leicester have played in this opening twenty o twenty minutes has been some of the best I 've seen them . |
| 2 | The result has been some unbundling , loosening and decentralizing of control in some societies and in some organizations on some tasks . |
| 3 | ‘ The earls of Warwick have been some of the most powerful men in English history . |
| 4 | He says the last few months have been some of the driest since records began . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The inability to protect children from such abuse has been the subject of a succession of inquiry reports , in which the main reason given for this failure has been some failing in procedure such as the lack of communication among the agencies involved . |
| 7 | Like the other playwrights whose response to Thatcherism and brutality has been some hand-wringing of their own , Barker is too infatuated by his heroine 's strength to humanise her withe vulnerability and too in awe of her for a passionate or coolly detached opposition . |
| 8 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 9 | When I wake up , maybe I 'll find that , like the death of Bobby in Dallas , all the recent news has been some kind of bad dream and that labels like Sarah , Non Fiction , Play It Again Sam and Cooking Vinyl all have bands on Top Of The Pops . |
| 10 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 11 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 12 | The highest level of information used in processing to date has been some form of lexical look-up . |
| 13 | In the area of hydrology have been some of the most specific contributions made by physical geographers including the analysis of increased discharges ( Hollis , 1975 ; Walling and Gregory , 1970 ; Walling 1979a ) , investigation of sediment yield ( Walling , 1974 ) , research extending into the area of water quality and pollutants related to urban source areas ( Ellis , 1979 ) and analysis of river channel changes downstream from urban areas ( Leopold 1973 ; Gregory , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words . |