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

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1 There has obviously been some continuity of habitation on the site but , quite honestly , there is no way I could classify it other than , perhaps , Romo-Stuart-Georgian !
2 There has apparently been some misunderstanding about the future of this Club and we have been asked to reassure members that the Club is continuing and that eligibility remains as before .
3 Investigations conducted among more recent groups of émigrés suffer from the fact that such groups have been disproportionately Jewish ; there has nevertheless been some support for the view that nationality is not a ‘ primordial ’ attachment and that its political importance is likely to depend on situational factors such as the degree of competition for employment opportunities .
4 But there has already been some progress in this direction .
5 Indeed , there has already been some degree of rationalisation of SROs .
6 There has already been some response to this cry for help .
7 In the United States there has already been some production of material specifically for interactive use , but for most people it is still a question of waiting and seeing what uses , methods and materials emerge .
8 I have chosen Vaughan because there has already been some analysis of deixis in his poetry — notably by Roger Sell in his article " The unstable discourse of Henry Vaughan " ( 1987 ) .
9 There has always been some concern over levels of public spending and taxation , and this has played a part in the arguments about the scope and direction of social policy that are described in Chapter 13 .
10 There has always been some awareness of this problem and the publication of simple informative magazines such as The Teacher in Uganda , has been regarded as one means of overcoming it .
11 There has possibly been some exaggeration in this matter of concentration on the horse .
12 However , there has possibly been some increase in the number of adult males wintering .
13 On the basis of these figures , there has clearly been some kind of shift in the axis of the economy from manufacturing to services .
14 During the period under review , there has also been some growth in the number of students on non-advanced courses almost entirely on a full-time or sandwich basis .
15 The reason for the density method 's increased efficiency is that there has indeed been some improvement in the estimate of h* ( n ) .
16 There has unquestionably been some kind of collusion between Jesus and Judas .
17 You then have to ask yourself the question , If there is n't any Government , if there is n't any er local development pressure of any substance which has brought about the need for this policy , has there been some sort of quantum change in Government policy which has necessitated that we give emphasis to this particular issue .
18 As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales .
19 There had already been some friction with the head of the Catholic Church in Spain , Cardinal Gomá , and with General Queipo de Llano ; the monarchists disliked the Falange , as did many military men ; and some Falangists harboured resentment over the 1937 unification of parties .
20 In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding .
21 In Picasso 's Horta work there had still been some reference to the earlier , simpler and more rational forms derived from tribal art , but in the paintings done on his return to Paris this aspect is completely abandoned , and in the figure work , the approach becomes once again less rational and more empirical .
22 The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room .
23 There had however been some resistance to what was seen as Russification since at least the 1960s , and in the 1980s the development of nuclear power was a new and very potent source of public disenchantment .
24 There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries .
25 There have always been some students in serious difficulties .
26 There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 .
27 While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well .
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