Example sentences of "there have been [noun] [prep] some " 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 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 6 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |