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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Nevertheless , there has been some crossover of knowledge between these two camps , with each benefiting from the fertilization that has followed .
4 The most common use of context has been some measure of how letters may legally combine to form words .
5 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 .
6 Thankfully , no , there has been some progress .
7 There has been some progress on the Museum .
8 Since the petition was raised , there has been some progress in this direction in the European Community , and I am pleased that the EC has been especially sympathetic towards the views of people like Mrs.
9 So we we may have to pursue that further but there has been some progress after all this time and expenditure of money and and time .
10 John Major and Albert Reynolds have said there has been some progress in talks on the future of Northern Ireland .
11 It appears that there has been some misunderstanding with regard to the sand pit cover .
12 There has been some misunderstanding about the position .
13 There has been some difficulty in producing a response panel sophisticated enough to allow for this range whilst still being easily understood and accessible to a child .
14 The University has been fortunate in attracting high quality staff to fill new lectureship posts although there has been some difficulty in filling senior posts , particularly in business and management , which is an area of acute national shortage .
15 It is difficult to deny that there has been some change in the right direction .
16 Although there has been some change in the distribution of wealth in Britain this century , this has largely taken place within the richest 10% .
17 All these suggest that there has been some degree of real tooth loss in these predator assemblages due to digestion , and since this loss is also accompanied by loss of bone , it is considered that this is the most extreme degree of breakage in these comparisons .
18 There has been some doubt about the law with regard to traffic-calming measures other than road humps which has meant that authorities have produced traffic-calming schemes but have been left in some doubt as to whether they could be prosecuted for obstructing the highway .
19 Whilst it is clear that an employee can not be prevented from using his general skill and knowledge once employment is over , there has been some doubt until recently as to whether the employer could exert any control over such use during employment or whether the law would imply such control .
20 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 .
21 There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 ’ .
25 There has been some concern expressed by British Coal on this issue .
26 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 .
27 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
28 Although hemispheric specialisation of function has been studied mainly through the visual and auditory modalities , there has been some work carried out with regard to the sense of touch .
29 While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison .
30 The question in the DBQ refers specifically to multi-level car parks , the assumption here seems to be that such memory failures are particularly likely in this context because of the similarity in appearance of different floors in such a car park , however , there has been some work looking at memory for car parking in situations where more information is available .
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