Example sentences of "been some " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 . |
| 2 | In the Philippines , there have been some encouraging developments in the case of Zosimo Alpino . |
| 3 | There have been some events which give qualified cause for optimism . |
| 4 | But there has been some attempt also to undercut the basic level of the defenders ' case . |
| 5 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had been some time since I had visited Ingleborough , so last summer I went back with a couple of friends to rediscover some of its hidden treasures . |
| 8 | A hook solved the initial problem , then a long , unprotected traverse ( great fun seconding ! ) led to more blank wall and what must have been some truly desperate leading . |
| 9 | Thankfully , no , there has been some progress . |
| 10 | Novels , for instance , have less in common with lyric poetry than with other forms of extended narrative , such as historiography , biography , autobiography — a genre of which there have been some interesting studies lately — or even some kinds of essay . |
| 11 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 12 | It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage . |
| 13 | There has also been some hasty back-pedalling over the fate of the Cambodian border town of Pailin . |
| 14 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 15 | There has been some fairly loose and wide-ranging sniping about inept leadership ( Carrick ) and incompetence ( the committee ) . |
| 16 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 17 | True , there have been some achievements . |
| 18 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 19 | ( While so far there have been some falls in prices , basically in the South , the national price picture has remained positive . ) |
| 20 | There have been some serious ructions when they have played table tennis , with rows and cheating and shouting matches . |
| 21 | There had been some redistribution of income . |
| 22 | There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before . |
| 23 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But obviously the revolution had been some time in the making . |
| 26 | There have been some rather unrealistic valuations being put on businesses . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 29 | Although there have been some famous poets who occupied this chair ( for example Matthew Arnold and W. H. Auden ) , it has much more commonly been occupied by dons ; and the point at issue when choosing candidates for the Chair of Poetry has very seldom been their views about the subject on which they are supposed to lecture , still less their competence to do so . |
| 30 | 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 . |