Example sentences of "[subord] there have [be] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although there have been some famous poets who occupied this chair ( for example Matthew Arnold and W. H. Auden ) , it has much more commonly been occupied by dons ; and the point at issue when choosing candidates for the Chair of Poetry has very seldom been their views about the subject on which they are supposed to lecture , still less their competence to do so . |
| 3 | Although there have been some notable examples of this practice ( such as Saatchi and Saatchi , and Ward White in 1984 ) it does not appear to have become commonplace . |
| 4 | Laporte 's trumping of Wassall on 8 January with a £135m bid for glue maker Evode has been the nearest thing to a typical bid salvo , although there have been some minnow-sized transactions . |
| 5 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | First , though there have been some marginal changes , most notably in the steady trickle away from the north and west to the south and east , the main features of the regional distribution of population remain the same . |