Example sentences of "been some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part . |
| 2 | There has also been some hasty back-pedalling over the fate of the Cambodian border town of Pailin . |
| 3 | It has been suggested that there is not really a contrast between and , since only occurs in weak syllables and no minimal pairs can be found to show a clear contrast between and in unstressed syllables ( though there have been some ingenious attempts ) . |
| 4 | There has , at the same time , been some fruitful cross-fertilisation between sociologists of religion and scholars in other areas of sociology ( such as deviance and political sociology ) and , indeed , in other disciplines , such as history , anthropology , social psychology and ( even ) theology . |
| 5 | She wondered if there had been some procedural delay in charging Theo Sykes . |
| 6 | Nor do I imagine that Number 10 would have been overjoyed if it had been some young detective constable . ’ |
| 7 | There had been some 400,000 arrivals since the 1988 elections ( including 240,000 from the former Soviet Union ) , and 240,000 of them were eligible to vote , which was seen as possibly a decisive factor in what was expected to be a close electoral contest . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Finally , there have been some striking public successes , notably in the highly effective campaigns to defend the political levy , which have even produced ballot results in favour of political funds in unions like the Hosiery and Knitwear Workers or the Inland Revenue Staffs Federation which have never previously had them . |
| 10 | There have also been some striking results from an Australian project which developed methods by which the students ( aged 15-16 ) took greater control of their own learning , including planning the lesson sequences and posing their own questions for enquiry . |
| 11 | It 's , it 's certainly er available nationally and I know there 's been some international interest already as well . |
| 12 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 13 | There have been some spectacular successes in land reclamation ( see page 138 of this issue , for example ) . |
| 14 | Although there have been some useful television series , most television coverage focusses on the sensational , and some major documentaries and plays have compounded the fears and misunderstandings of the public rather than alleviate them . |
| 15 | Its concerns are primarily those of the Roman Catholic Church , but Anglicans also belong to it and there have been some useful ecumenical conferences over the years . |
| 16 | Alongside these changes in age structure , and partly related to them , have been some substantial changes in the way in which people group themselves into households . |
| 17 | This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible . |
| 18 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 19 | In the Philippines , there have been some encouraging developments in the case of Zosimo Alpino . |
| 20 | At long last Chris Lewis demonstrated his wonderful batting talent , and together with Hick blossoming and Fairbrother blending his natural game to Test demands , there have been some encouraging signs . |
| 21 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 22 | The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 . |
| 23 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 24 | In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay . |
| 25 | William of Germany is an ambitious man , and there have been some stupid individuals on the throne here who can not see further than their noses . |
| 26 | Had there been some awful dispute between London and Tehran or had the Americans done something unforgivable ? |
| 27 | There have been some localised social services initiatives within a community social work model and some education welfare services for travellers have developed extensive outreach work . |
| 28 | You will have noted the additional appointment of at least one wine waiter : the fact that the total wages bill has n't increased by more than about 2.2 per cent suggests that there have been some compensating reductions , probably in the part-time staff , and almost certainly in view of the decline in trade . |
| 29 | This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases . |
| 30 | 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 . |