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

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1 There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks .
2 There has been some discussion in welfare economics and philosophical ethics about aspects of the problem , but there is no integrated treatment of the general question of valuing demographic changes .
3 There has been some readjustment in run-up and an encouragement to bowl rather faster .
4 There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 .
5 There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest .
6 I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors .
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