Example sentences of "[vb infin] be some [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | D' you remember I showed you a manuscript — it must 've been some years ago , now — purporting to be by some mariner who remembered an English cargo boat having gone down between us , here at Møn , and Malmo — during the First Schleswig War ? |
| 2 | The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe can not have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles . |
| 3 | Er there would have been some cases where that had happened erm and clearly the nationalists had withdrawn from most of southern China into , into south west China and therefore erm th th there 'd been er and there was quite a lot of fighting going , still going across south China so i it 's not quite the same . |
| 4 | WE shall probably never know the appointments Neil Kinnock had in store for his first week as Prime Minister , but there would have been some surprises . |
| 5 | There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up |
| 6 | Yeah , cos it was you with erm well it must have been some years ago . |
| 7 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 8 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 9 | Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present . |