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

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1 There has obviously been some attempt to alter and/or censor , but something of the truth can nevertheless be teased out of the fragments that remain .
2 There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian !
3 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 .
4 Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities .
5 But there has already been some progress in this direction .
6 Indeed , there has already been some degree of rationalisation of SROs .
7 ‘ On grass , ’ says Mr Hann , ‘ where you inject into wheel markings you get more damage , as the tine is being pulled through ground on which there has already been some surface shearing .
8 There has already been some response to this cry for help .
9 In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge .
10 I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) .
11 That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization .
12 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
13 There has always been some awareness of this problem and the publication of simple informative magazines such as The Teacher in Uganda , has been regarded as one means of overcoming it .
14 THERE has always been some doubt as to what exactly a cotinga is .
15 There has possibly been some exaggeration in this matter of concentration on the horse .
16 However , there has possibly been some increase in the number of adult males wintering .
17 On the basis of these figures , there has clearly been some kind of shift in the axis of the economy from manufacturing to services .
18 During the period under review , there has also been some growth in the number of students on non-advanced courses almost entirely on a full-time or sandwich basis .
19 The reason for the density method 's increased efficiency is that there has indeed been some improvement in the estimate of h* ( n ) .
20 There has unquestionably been some kind of collusion between Jesus and Judas .
21 You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue .
22 If there had only been some way they could have gone in the doors of University College together and come home on the bus each night , or better still got a flat together , life would have been perfect .
23 As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales .
24 There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties .
25 In Moabit there had already been some traffic management in the past , but this had relied largely on the use of one-way streets .
26 It appeared that although Taigh na Tuir had not been formally put on the market , there had already been some interest shown .
27 Petion looked astounded in a repulsed sort of way ; Privately , he wondered who had carved these things , and hoped it had not been some ancestor of his .
28 In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding .
29 In Picasso 's Horta work there had still been some reference to the earlier , simpler and more rational forms derived from tribal art , but in the paintings done on his return to Paris this aspect is completely abandoned , and in the figure work , the approach becomes once again less rational and more empirical .
30 The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room .
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