Example sentences of "[verb] be some [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Included are some suggestions for making the best use of the opportunities and for overcoming the problems . |
| 2 | All I 've got is some coppers for the tin . |
| 3 | You can see where there could have been some buildings outside the main ring wall . |
| 4 | While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved . |
| 5 | Military leaders in the sixteenth century who could not find wars to fight elsewhere might turn on their own sovereigns and fight at home ; there had been some decades of civil war in England after the English had been driven out of France in the middle of the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 7 | There had been some hints in the latter part of the nineteenth century that the machine was not in perfect working order . |
| 8 | There had been some plants under construction for wartime-approved purposes , but in 1945 itself only 170MW of new plant had been completed , and in 1946 this could only be increased to 288MW and in 1947 to 340MW . |
| 9 | Since the victory of the Labour Campaign for Lesbian and Gay Rights at the Annual Labour Conference in the autumn of 1985 , there had been some signposts to Labour 's instincts on these matters . |
| 10 | As soon as the Conservatives came into office , there had been some signals to the nationalised industries that financial disciplines were likely to displace physical controls on investment . |
| 11 | Gould , the ornithologist , was with him , and as they had been some days without anything to eat , except what they shot , they enjoyed a good breakfast . |
| 12 | Although there have been some investigations of a functional kind relating soil erosion amount to controlling variables in areas like Zimbabwe ( Stocking , 1977 ) , studies of soil loss are potentially very useful ( Stocking , 1980 ) and may be undertaken by detailed process investigations which are usually concerned with parts of the erosion process or with laboratory measurements ( e.g. De Ploey , 1983 ) , by empirical investigations which monitor output in relation to input and use a relation similar to the Universal Soil Loss equation ; and factorial survey methods which Stocking ( 1980 ) visualizes as analysis and collation of the spatial pattern of all factors which relate to soil loss erosion . |
| 13 | There have been some investigations into determining how fully lexicons derived from machine readable dictionaries are able to cover unseen text . |
| 14 | On the PC version , which now runs under Windows 2.03 or Windows 386 , there have been some changes to the keyboard shortcuts that , for anyone used to the previous version , are extremely strange . |
| 15 | However , as we shall see later , there have been some changes in the more detailed areas . |
| 16 | I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors . |
| 17 | As we shall see , there have been some moves in this direction , even in England . |
| 18 | During the past year there have been some differences between Sir Denys and other members of the board . |
| 19 | When he next speaks to the chairman of British Rail , will he tell him that , whereas there have been some improvements to the line in the past five years , my constituents are still extremely concerned about punctuality and the cleanliness of trains ? |
| 20 | Er sure there have been some improvements in the materials that we use . |
| 21 | My Lords , could I ask the Minister if she would agree that there have been some improvements in the accident and emergency departments , since consultants were appointed and how many accidents that er there are emergency departments have not got consultants in charge and leave it to junior doctors ? |
| 22 | Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’ |
| 23 | And finally there have been some items in some of the national newspapers recently concerning university science parks . |
| 24 | But there have been some increases for those living in the larger cities , which have been worst hit by the crime wave . |
| 25 | ( While so far there have been some falls in prices , basically in the South , the national price picture has remained positive . ) |
| 26 | It 's too early to talk of a rebirth of Welsh forward play but at least , in victory over Ireland and defeat by France , there have been some stirrings of life . |
| 27 | So did the England B team here last year and there have been some rakings on this tour . |
| 28 | There have been some adjustments to the extent of these powers ; in particular , the Local Government Planning and Land Act 1980 relaxed the controls and shifted more responsibility from the counties to the district ( Catchpole 1982 ) . |
| 29 | As far at I could judge it , the general feeling among the present day staff is that there have been some gains to both the prisoners and the system , and some losses , but the gains have been bought dearly and slowly and the losses may be irreversible . |
| 30 | Captain Sturt was the great explorer who had discovered the Murray River , and have been some years in New South Wales before coming to Adelaide , where he was Colonial Secretary . |