Example sentences of "have been the [noun] [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to my mind even more sinister has been the development of some forms of ‘ industrial ’ fishing . |
| 2 | THE RISE of sea level predicted as a consequence of global warming has been the subject of some spectacular doom-mongering since the greenhouse effect leapt to prominence . |
| 3 | The importance of this development has been the subject of some debate . |
| 4 | Why some of these experiments should be more successful than others at revealing group differences has been the subject of some experimental investigation . |
| 5 | It has been the subject of some concern by those who feel that local authority officers should be completely divorced from party political connections . |
| 6 | In recent months the presidential asset has been the subject of some distinctly unflattering news articles , including a long Vanity Fair magazine story that painted her as an autocrat angry with her husband and out of touch with her family . |
| 7 | The impact of the rise of the English Arminians and the scale of their departure from pre-1625 theological norms has been the subject of some considerable historical debate over the last few years . |
| 8 | The nature of the nasal sacs in heterostracans has been the subject of some debate . |
| 9 | Inheritance has been the subject of some of the most important scientific discoveries of the past century . |
| 10 | As you may know the agreement has been the subject of some discussion , but I hope that now we have a form of words which recognises the interests of both parties to the agreement . |
| 11 | British Telecom 's prices — the undertaking has been the subject of some criticism in the press — have decreased by 20 per cent . |
| 12 | The June rally has been the scene of some classic battles between and never more than in 1990 when McHale won by just nine seconds . |
| 13 | Unbeknown to Norris , the sliver — a name given to tall narrow apartment buildings by New Yorkers — has been the scene of some pretty gruesome goings on . |
| 14 | In popular discussions of private education , grandparents emerge as people very likely to pay school fees ( Guardian 27 May 1986 ) and it certainly has been the case for some time that it is advantageous in taxation terms for them to do so , since grandparents can take out a deed of covenant to cover this payment whereas parents can not . |
| 15 | The frets are Jim Dunlop 6230 medium size and have been finished quite nicely , with no sharp edges protruding over the fingerboard , as has been the case on some Ibanez guitars in the past . |
| 16 | This case has been the occasion of some powerful comment in the press . |
| 17 | The manufacturers ' response has been the creation of some stunning artificial decor — plus some items that rate alongside flying ducks on the wall as pieces of what are called ‘ art bingo ’ at the PFK offices . |
| 18 | Such has been the reaction of some advice workers to race awareness training and anti-racist training . |
| 19 | This is a topic which has been the focus of some scholarly discussion , partly because Leonardo himself is known to have visited the city in 1500 , but mainly because Vasari , in the second edition of the Lives , stated that Giorgione had been greatly impressed by some unspecified works of Leonardo 's which he had seen . |
| 20 | Matters would have been made that much simpler had the guild clerk also been the parish clerk and it might well have been the case in some instances . |
| 21 | Presumably it had once housed families of civilian workers at the army camp , but before that it might have been the home of some isolated community of wild-fowlers or oyster-dredgers , with smuggling , probably , as their main source of livelihood . |
| 22 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 23 | Our parents may not have been Christian , or even if they were they could have been the victims of some erroneous ideas or traditions . |
| 24 | So pre-programmed did their behaviours seem , that they themselves might have been the subjects of some meta-experiment and the pallor of their laboratory coats a function of their caged confinement . |
| 25 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 26 | This does not have to have been the winning of some special prize or coming first in every race . |
| 27 | Until it is universally accepted that nobody whatsoever has title to property other than that held under rules to be agreed and laid down by all humankind , as distinct from those alleged to have been the product of some ‘ god ’ or other , will the first step towards formulating those rules have been taken . |
| 28 | That is , the " manifest dream 's " apparently irrelevant and unpredictable content was actually deemed to have been systematically arrived at from a " latent dream " , whose implicit content had been the subject of some extensive dreamwork . |
| 29 | Rightly or wrongly , Branson suspected that a Music Week reporter had been the source of some stories ( others , he suspected , had been planted by John Varnom ) . |
| 30 | If her own marriage had been the result of some matchmaking , so too was Andrew 's marriage to Sarah later that year . |