Example sentences of "have been [noun] [prep] some [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm .
2 Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people .
3 Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk .
4 That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say .
5 There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics .
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