Example sentences of "had been some [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government officials also confirmed that there had been some forewarning of the rebel attack but that the magnitude of it had been unexpected . |
| 2 | This is exactly the way the band saw it and , when pushed , certain employees of Rough Trade agreed that there had been some kind of promotional foul-up . |
| 3 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 4 | Dinner consisted of pea soup , which Millie found quite nice — she could taste there had been some kind of pork boiled in the liquid — followed by a meat pudding . |
| 5 | There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering . |
| 6 | There had been some kind of vast domed hall as he passed through the Gates ; he thought there had been colours within the light then , and he had received a dim impression of a far-off vaulted ceiling . |
| 7 | There had been some criticism of the question and answer made by the social worker in support of the hospital admission application form on the question of practicability of getting the recommendation of a practitioner with previous acquaintance with the patient , and those responsible might wish to consider rewording the form so as to direct the social worker 's attention to the question of practicability . |
| 8 | Even before the Convention procedures became available , there had been some discussion of the relationship between the procedural rules of the forum and hostile attitudes encountered in foreign practice . |
| 9 | There had been some sort of clandestine liaison between the lady and Darrel for some time . |
| 10 | And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about . |
| 11 | If Frankenstein had been some sort of intelligent creepy-crawly , Ace thought , that 's the kind of monster he 'd have built . |
| 12 | In fact , she had almost convinced herself that they had been some sort of reaction to the arrival of that poison pen letter . |
| 13 | There had been some sort of slight accent too . |
| 14 | Before the General Election there had been some talk of revising Crime Has No Boundaries , after Quintin Hogg had written to Heath calling for a ‘ refurbishment ’ of policies towards crime . |
| 15 | His first observation was that there had been some difference of opinion among the volunteers at Ropley . |
| 16 | One set of 10 pellets was left on a dry ledge against a south facing wall , and after two years there had been some erosion of the surfaces of the pellets but the pellets were still largely intact . |
| 17 | There had been some redistribution of income . |