Example sentences of "had been some [noun] " 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 | There had been some disturbance there , too , when their master launched his attack . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Jack speculated that perhaps there had been some interference by a superior , or that vandals may have seen the lonely outpost as a target for action . |
| 5 | The memory of it revitalised a bonny smile but he was aware that there had been some anxiety in his corner . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | From Henry 's recollection of the trial , which was , admittedly , not all that clear , Young had been some kind of chemist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There had been some kind of religious fantasy , and a possibility of homosexual tampering . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | What if it had been some lunatic who sounded like her , someone who had lured her here for a reason . |
| 13 | There had been some pedals and a lever and the steering wheel , and that had been about it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Annabel wished that there had been some way young Eve could have been sent to university too . |
| 18 | There had been some doubt until Bodser found the nose-cone of a 3·7 inch anti-aircraft shell , and that settled it . |
| 19 | All 18 had initialled the treaty on March 13 , but there had been some doubt before the final signature that Baskhkortostan would sign . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There had been some concern in the early Eighties , when one of the national dailies , Today , moved its headquarters into the next-door building . |
| 22 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 23 | His new girl-friend was also examined and nothing abnormal was found , although she did say that there had been some increase in her vaginal discharge for some months . |
| 24 | Initial reports from the site indicated that there had been some damage to buildings at the camp site , some distance from the gas plant , but that the plant itself remained unscathed . |
| 25 | ‘ If the parties have agreed the basis of taxation it would , I think , be an improper exercise of the court 's discretion to direct the taxation on some other basis , unless satisfied that there had been some conduct on the part of the mortgagee disentitling him to costs or to costs on the agreed basis . |
| 26 | Same-Lamborghini 's UK importer agreed that there had been some problems with the quality of cab fittings on some early models . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | There had been some disagreement about the value of the land on which the House was eventually built , and John Wing had written to the Earl of Ashburnham saying that : |
| 29 | But when in one class he had taken the register and pronounced their names correctly , there had been some laughter from non-Indian children ( who were a minority in the class ) but floods of embarrassed giggles from Asian children , who seemed to prefer their names to be mispronounced in school . |
| 30 | 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 . |