Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In almost all villages however there has been some element of change , and usually there has been a set of related changes in which social polarization is accompanied by segregation and a shift of political power to a new ruling group , dominated by in-migrants .
2 It is thought that there has been some element of a share dealing ring in the Dunsdale case .
3 There has been some standardisation on input pulse widths and in general , pulse widths of 0.75mS to 2.2mS will produce an output shaft rotation of about 180 degrees .
4 Either there has been some mistake , or else Acamar has faded .
5 There has been some expansion , too , of opportunities for women in the white-collar categories of employment ;
6 There has been a contraction and closure of plants , especially in the central urban areas , while there has been some expansion elsewhere .
7 In recent years there has been some awareness on the part of planners of the role of rural planning policies in exaggerating the scarcity of rural housing and achieving comparatively little for those in greatest housing need .
8 There has been some speculation that Mohammed 's father was a member of a Nazarean sect and that Mohammed himself was raised in Nazarean traditions .
9 will prevent him having to consider a mass of trivial complaints where it is unlikely that criminal charges would ever be brought but there has been some concern that the chief officer of police is given a discretion whether or not to refer complaints which disclose criminal conduct to the D.P.P. , although this decision is of course supervised .
10 There has been some concern , over the last 10 years , about the involvement of the ethnic minorities in Great Britain in the Criminal Justice System .
11 There has been some concern expressed that these courses offered by the former colleges of education have different objectives from those in art colleges , and might therefore lack professional competence , thereby creating ‘ a dual standard within higher education ’ .
12 There has been some concern expressed by British Coal on this issue .
13 There has been some concern that several teachers took tickets to sell but failed to let know whether or not they had sold them which made catering difficult .
14 Nevertheless , there has been some crossover of knowledge between these two camps , with each benefiting from the fertilization that has followed .
15 It appears that there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the sand pit cover .
16 There has been some misunderstanding about the position .
17 As for changes over time in spatial disparities within the EC other than those generated by the accession of new members , Boltho ( 1989 ) demonstrates that from 1950 onwards there has been some reduction in the degree of regional income imbalance .
18 In recent years , there has been some return to the classical view that the real wage is too high and that unemployment is ‘ voluntary ’ in the sense that it is caused by workers refusing to accept wage cuts .
19 There has been some discussion in the literature as to the most appropriate way of expressing the degree of lateral asymmetry which a subject shows in an experiment .
20 There has been some discussion in the literature as to how left-right differences in performance should be measured .
21 It was the Prague School that unified Formalism and Saussurean linguistics in a single theoretical programme , or at least — as there has been some discussion as to the exact nature of the Prague school 's debt to Saussure — reformulated Formalist literary theory within the framework of a linguistics which shared most of Saussure 's fundamental principles , and to which they attached the label structuralism .
22 There has been some discussion in welfare economics and philosophical ethics about aspects of the problem , but there is no integrated treatment of the general question of valuing demographic changes .
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24 An even more extreme form of this way of thinking is to assume that there has been some type of directive force in evolution such that humans represent the ‘ pinnacle ’ of progress .
25 Silly me — I had thought that that was party policy , but unfortunately there has been some turning of the tide .
26 For the sake of the argument we must assume that the space covered by the arch is proportional to the benefits , so that there has been some purpose in making the arch as broad as possible .
27 More recently there has been some support for an approach which interprets the contract as a whole but it is by no means unanimous .
28 The guide was written by Des Hannigan and there has been some friction between the two in recent years , caused to some extent by Rowland and Mark Edwards ' new-routing techniques .
29 From the analysis of what can be defined , within this tendency , as the social forms of art , there has been some development of the analysis of their corresponding social formations .
30 It is difficult to deny that there has been some change in the right direction .
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