Example sentences of "have been a [noun] of some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s . |
| 2 | The main worry is that modular schemes might undo the progress towards an integrated approach to first degree studies which has been a feature of some professional subjects in recent years , notably in post-Finniston engineering courses . |
| 3 | Although there has been a settlement of some sort at North Shields since the Middle Ages , the modern town is a product of the addition of industrial capitalism to mercantile capitalism . |
| 4 | This has been a source of some less than harmonious comments from my beloved . |
| 5 | The latter point has been a cause of some concern because , in the 1980s , black kids continue to involve themselves in sport with a fervour which alarms many , fearful that blacks ' achievements can only reinforce traditional stereotyped images about blacks being adept at physical pursuits , but inept at intellectual ones . |
| 6 | The whole question of the ideal size for a public library authority has been a matter of some controversy in Britain since the publication of the McColvin report in 1943 . |
| 7 | The nature of that development , however , has been a matter of some dispute . |
| 8 | The extent to which such an understanding is justified has been a matter of some debate , not only at the local level , but in terms of national politics , and even politics within the EC . |
| 9 | Whether to reclaim or reject this term has been a matter of some debate in Black communities . ) |
| 10 | So the man worth just under £2 might well have been a person of some consequence in the community . |
| 11 | But revenge was not the whole motive : without it , the joke might have been cheaper , less elaborate , of a different kind — but there would probably have been a joke of some kind . |
| 12 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 13 | There had in fact only been one occasion during those last years that Lewis could remember and he was sure Adam had only gone because there had been a promise of some shooting . |
| 14 | It had been a topic of some concern , in the days when I worked fairly regularly at the Mimosa , that Stubbly always preferred to walk through Chinatown to the Piccadilly Circus Barclays , as even on a Thursday morning he could have got mugged . |
| 15 | Could there have been an epidemic of some kind in the village around this time ? |