Example sentences of "[vb base] been some [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ There 've been some fears expressed that we might have an occupation force in Panama , ’ said Senate minority leader Mr Bob Dole .
2 It still maintains the main architectural design of the original , although there have been some alterations — for example , cutting off part of the north bulwark and the covering of the Manueline towers .
3 There have been some grants , but the team needs thousands of pounds more for its own unit .
4 What I 'm asking is , could there have been some kind of mistake here , at your end ? ’
5 Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion .
6 There have been some investigations into determining how fully lexicons derived from machine readable dictionaries are able to cover unseen text .
7 Relating this to actual flows , is restricted by the severe simplifications in deriving the equations , although there have been some experiments showing interesting behaviour .
8 In the intervening years , there have been some changes , but not nearly enough .
9 However , as we shall see later , there have been some changes in the more detailed areas .
10 On the PC version , which now runs under Windows 2.03 or Windows 386 , there have been some changes to the keyboard shortcuts that , for anyone used to the previous version , are extremely strange .
11 There have been some changes , but they have not been dramatic .
12 I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors .
13 There have been some attempts to do this .
14 There have been some attempts to do this .
15 ‘ Obviously , there have been some controversies but we believe the competition is catching the imagination of the fans . ’
16 Yet there have been some areas where functionalist accounts have been elaborated to try to explain the persistence of both stability and of internal tensions within the state apparatus .
17 As we shall see , there have been some moves in this direction , even in England .
18 Children who are disabled cause an extra financial burden to their parents and there have been some moves to acknowledge this .
19 There have been some moves forward on this .
20 And he added : ‘ If I were an American , I would be saying thank goodness there have been some musicals to keep Broadway alive for the last 10 years . ’
21 During the past year there have been some differences between Sir Denys and other members of the board .
22 Er sure there have been some improvements in the materials that we use .
23 When he next speaks to the chairman of British Rail , will he tell him that , whereas there have been some improvements to the line in the past five years , my constituents are still extremely concerned about punctuality and the cleanliness of trains ?
24 My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ?
25 Unfortunately there have been some problems and delay in getting them reprinted , and we have now decided with Margot to re-launch the campaign with a new logo , new stickers and leaflets .
26 ‘ In ophthalmology there have been some problems but a new consultant has been appointed thanks to increased funding made available by this government .
27 Yes there have been some problems and the City Council
28 There have been some success stories , particularly where local authorities have entered into partnership deals with private sector agencies .
29 It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered .
30 So far as elderly people in particular are concerned , there has been relatively little change in patterns of co-residence with relatives until the later part of the twentieth century ; although there have been some fluctuations , the overall pattern shows more continuities than changes .
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