Example sentences of "[pron] have [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 | If there has been some new EC directive on the interpretation of election results , we should be told . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There has been some expansion , too , of opportunities for women in the white-collar categories of employment ; |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The gallery is frail now and there has been some reconstruction , which is continuing with the whole of the property . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Similarly , there has been some relaxation of restrictions over the formation of mixed and inter-professional practices . |
| 19 | In this country there has been some experimenting with different sorts of cell groups . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There has been some focusing on why people may not be able to come to a CAB and which groups may be affected . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | There has been some controversy in recent years about how best to analyse contingency data . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | There has been some dispute about this text , based on the belief that only posthumous children of the deceased himself were admissible on succession . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There has been some attempt to assess children 's preferences in terms of subject-matter , illustration style , reproduction processes , use of colour , and so on . |
| 30 | There has been some bad press in recent years about the use of foam in cavity wall insulation and its possible side-effects on people 's health . |