Example sentences of "has [been] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ These two cases , then , make it perfectly clear that when he is sued , as in the present case , on the covenants contained in the original lease , the original tenant 's only possible defences are either : ( 1 ) that he has performed the covenants ; or ( 2 ) that the relevant assignee has performed the covenants ; or ( 3 ) there has been some other operation conducted upon the lease — for example surrender of the whole — which has put a complete end to the liability to pay rent . |
| 2 | People are unlikely to pay much more attention to his decisions just because there has been some fiddling with the constitution . |
| 3 | There has been some good news on the jobs front today . |
| 4 | If there has been some new EC directive on the interpretation of election results , we should be told . |
| 5 | All the authorities subsequent to Cumber v. Wane ( 1721 ) 1 Stra. 426 which were relied upon by the appellant at your Lordships ' Bar ( such as Sibree v. Tripp ( 1846 ) 15 M. & W. 23 ; Curlewis v. Clark ( 1849 ) 3 Exch. 375 and Goddard v. O'Brien ( 1882 ) 9 Q.B.D. 37 ) have proceeded upon the distinction that , by giving negotiable paper or otherwise , there has been some new consideration for a new agreement , distinct from mere money payments in or towards discharge of the original liability . |
| 6 | Though they have all faced more complex choices by virtue of having mixed policies towards foreign investors and internal interest groups , there has been some perceptible consistency in approach over time , even though that is at times obscured by administrative and political compromise . |
| 7 | There has been some administrative devolution , to which the hon. and learned Member for Fife , North-East referred . |
| 8 | Following on from this the amount of research carried out into MT was seriously reduced , although there has been some renewed interest ( e.g. SYSTRAN ( Toma , 1977 ) and EUROTRA ( Raw et al , 1988 ) ) . |
| 9 | Even if there has been some limited Government recognition of this fact , changes in the taxation structure have lagged badly behind changes in the market place . |
| 10 | ‘ Some players were just not doing their stuff at Bradford and there has been some strong talking this week . ’ |
| 11 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 12 | There has been some sharp criticism in some areas of the sporting press — principally on three counts : That the turnover generated does not contribute to the levy ; that it is a snub to the all-weather experiment ; that it is pure exploitation of the punter . |
| 13 | A considerable number of sites fall into this category , even when there has been some aerial photography and excavation , as for example at Braintree and Horncastle . |
| 14 | Thus there has been some significant organizational development in the industry even since 1985 when Table 11.1 was drawn up . |
| 15 | There has been some interesting talk about defenders which is all very good BUT remember the source of the info about Jobson/ Bardsley was the News of the World . |
| 16 | But I think that there has been some interesting arguments put forward this morning about the act , there 's more policemen , or sorry , should I say police officers available to Wiltshire . |
| 17 | Things go badly wrong when there has been some extreme untoward event such as a fire , an earthquake or a bomb , alternatively an unanticipated combination of faults may occur within the plant itself . |
| 18 | There has been some bad press in recent years about the use of foam in cavity wall insulation and its possible side-effects on people 's health . |
| 19 | It also went to Colombia , where there is a similarly coloured but unrelated Blanco Orejinegro , and there has been some experimental crossing recently of British Whites with Brahmans . |
| 20 | Under rational expectations , movements in aggregate demand can affect real output if those movements are random because , faced with an unexpectedly high price for the good on her island , the typical supplier will at least partly infer that there has been some positive , relative demand shock on her island . |