Example sentences of "have been in some " in BNC.

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1 Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity .
2 The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small .
3 Probably , for we later read that ‘ want of opportunity has been in some respect a prejudice to my business ’ , and , ‘ the noble act of embalming has been entirely ruined by the undertakers ’ .
4 The future of the Cotswold line from Oxford to Worcester , has been in some doubt following a leaked BR report which revealed that it was to have no further investment , despite its pre-war signalling and rustic stations .
5 The dissidents who resigned from his ‘ cabinet ’ look ominously like a vanguard of the fundamentalist persuasion which has been in some abeyance since the defeat of Jim Sillars .
6 It seemed that not only the president , but the whole country , might have been in some delightful lotus-sleep for the past few years .
7 Though his thought may have been in some respects dry and narrow as a result , he set the agenda for modern philosophy and theology .
8 This being must have been in some way necessary to humanity , it is inconceivable that this is not so , for surely there would have been evidence of at least one enduring civilisation that had neither ‘ god ’ nor temple .
9 Back home she 'd have been in some nice comfortable clinic .
10 The tightly packed schiltrons might have been in some danger if the enemy 's Welsh archers had been used at once ; but Edward or his advisers thought they could settle things swiftly by an all-out cavalry charge .
11 They were n't twins , but they could have been in some respects , she realised .
12 An argument for the co-evolution of dispersers and their trees is that they , in contrast , avoid the seeds , though in the past such seeds may have been in some way indigestible , promoting the relationship of today .
13 Arsenic was a common substance and could have been in some of the remedies Mrs Armstrong took .
14 I can honestly say I ca n't remember a show I definitely did n't like doing , although I might have been in some that did n't turn out as I though they would . ’
15 They seem to have been in some sort of vassal relationship with the Dzhungars until they broke away in the 1650s and 1660s .
16 Here , the appropriate leader of change had been in some doubt .
17 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
18 Boy thought that this had been in some ways the perfect night , the best that he had ever had since he 'd arrived at The Bar .
19 At the end of the sixteenth century the ‘ crowned republic ’ of Poland had been in some ways one of the great powers of Europe .
20 She had been in some tight spots with her work but this had hit her hard because she cared very much about the girl .
21 Among those who regarded Faustus as their spiritual master was Sidonius , whose brother had been in some way saved by the bishop .
22 Sentencing McPherson , the judge , Lord Cameron , said he accepted that McPherson had been in some part less responsible for the violence to Mr O'Donnell that evening , but added : ‘ Nevertheless you played a full part in luring him into the hands of those who were responsible for repeated acts of a bizarre and terrible character upon him . ’
23 I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp .
24 Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill .
25 I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution .
26 They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu .
27 They have been in some ways too successful .
28 He 's been in some good ones actually .
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