Example sentences of "[verb] [been] some [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent lacklustre share price performance has suggested that there has been some doubt as to the practical benefits of separation , not least how future dividend payments will be structured . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Recently , however , there has been some criticism and some arguments about its structure , in addition to the more long-standing discussion of how far ministers can dominate their departments and how far civil service practices and attitudes have proved too much for the politicians . |
| 6 | But as Fairbairns points out , there has been some disagreement as to where the solutions to the subordinate position of women lie . |
| 7 | In recent years there has been some evidence that they are even more evasive , changing identity by oscillating from one type of neutrino to another . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Secondly , there has been some recognition that unemployment and job creation should be the concern of a whole range of agencies and departments , not just the DED and its off-shoots . |
| 10 | A single gene may be responsible in that although the identical twin concordance rate is only 40–50 per cent , there has been some suggestion that the other twin often has some schizoid features of personality which may be the same disease in a much milder form ( Emery , 1975 ) . |
| 11 | There has been some suggestion that parents are more likely to argue in front of their sons than their daughters ; that a disturbed parent is more likely to pick on a son than a daughter ; and that mothers may transfer negative experiences with their husband into negative expectations of their sons . |
| 12 | There has been some suggestion that computer trading techniques have been partly responsible for the crash ( or what is called programme trading ) . |
| 13 | Whilst there has been some confusion as to exactly what ‘ remoteness ’ consists of ( it seems to have been equated to distance from London whereas it would seem to be psychological remoteness in the sense of inaccessibility of decision-makers which really matters ) , the lesson nevertheless seems clear . |
| 14 | But there has been some argument that the criteria should be increased for boys to the age of 8 years ( Verhulst et al . |
| 15 | There has been some controversy as to the exact role of the police authority . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | One reason the 1989 regulations were passed was to satisfy the United States as to the protection offered in the United Kingdom , otherwise there might have been some doubt as to whether topographies derived from the United Kingdom would have been afforded protection in the United States . |
| 18 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 19 | It must have been some time after we had last met . |
| 20 | Apparently there must have been very heavy rain higher up the dale because there had been some flooding and the river was running very fast . |
| 21 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
| 22 | Well , it had been some while since she 'd walked ten miles in one go — or even five , for that matter , she excused her fluttering heart . |
| 23 | There had been some doubt until Bodser found the nose-cone of a 3·7 inch anti-aircraft shell , and that settled it . |
| 24 | Though there had been some concern as to what the world 's reaction would be , Wilson had smoothed it over with assurances that the world community could n't deny that America had the right to protect the few hundred of its citizens in Haiti , and to defend the various mining and import/export concessions that had been granted to them . |
| 25 | At Rome there had been some disagreement and even contention for more than a century on the possibility of restoration for believers who committed adultery , murder , or apostasy ( participation in idolatrous rites ) . |
| 26 | By the end of the project we could report that there had been some changes and developments in practice . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It had been some time since they had had the chance for such indulgences . |
| 29 | Suffolk was the only link and he could remember quite distinctly , on first going to Nunes , how there had been some dispute as to whether it was in Suffolk or Essex . |
| 30 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |