Example sentences of "have be some [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | William of Germany is an ambitious man , and there have been some stupid individuals on the throne here who can not see further than their noses . |
| 2 | If the result had gone differently , there would , no doubt , have been some sarcastic offerings concerning our previous week 's cover ( ‘ It 's 1997 , and the Tories are going for their fifth consecutive election victory … |
| 3 | There have been some recent changes to the membership of the TCP . |
| 4 | There have been some impressive cases of increases in productivity , notably British Airways , British Leyland , and British Steel , which have shed workers , but it remains to be seen whether the improvement will be durable or a once-only case of firms shaking out the least efficient workers . |
| 5 | Transmission is theoretically possible when semen , vaginal fluid or menstrual blood comes into contact with the mouth , particularly if there are bleeding gums , ulcers or infections in the mouth , and there have been some anecdotal reports of this . |
| 6 | THERE HAVE BEEN SOME GREAT sufferers in popular music — Leonard Cohen , Morrissey , Michael Bolton . |
| 7 | Alongside these changes in age structure , and partly related to them , have been some substantial changes in the way in which people group themselves into households . |
| 8 | ‘ There have been some nasty accidents in these hills . |
| 9 | There have been some good examples of team working , radical ideas and of getting the right people involved to make changes happen . |
| 10 | There have been some spectacular successes in land reclamation ( see page 138 of this issue , for example ) . |
| 11 | In the Philippines , there have been some encouraging developments in the case of Zosimo Alpino . |
| 12 | In general , education has reinforced society 's values , but there have been some experimental attempts at providing education to radicalise values . |
| 13 | There have been some significant developments in the last few years including the introduction of full-time DATEC courses , which are provided for South Wales by the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |
| 14 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 15 | There have been some fine reporters on the programme . |
| 16 | Against this gloomy background , however , there have been some high points during the year . |
| 17 | The most spectacular of these have been some magnificent specimens of Verdigris agaric , Stroparia aeruginosa , shown to me by Maureen Defty , a local farmer . |
| 18 | But for all that and all that there have been some interesting stirrings in the undergrowth which may well have the effect of concentrating the minds of the opposition party leaders . |
| 19 | Along the way , there have been some interesting recantations by erstwhile Keynesian economists whilst their still committed colleagues have been stimulated to mount a counter-attack [ Brittan , 1975 ; Hicks , 1975 ; Meade , 1982 ; Shonfield , 1984 ] . |
| 20 | Of course there have been some minor differences of opinion . |
| 21 | There have been some minor revisions of these rules recently , since the European Court ruled that they were discriminatory against women , but this has not made much difference . |
| 22 | While there have been some minor reductions of segregation over the last century , the basic fact of extensive segregation by gender in employment remains a striking feature of the labour market . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the model has inspired much detailed historical research — indeed it has contributed substantially to the progress of economic and social history — and in the past few decades , partly as a result of the publication of previously inaccessible manuscripts of Marx , there have been some valuable contributions to Marxist scholarship addressed to the kinds of problem that I have indicated , concerning modes of production , tribal ( that is , primitive communal ) societies , historical sequences , and the relation of political power to forms of society . |
| 24 | Alongside the changes in the British family reviewed in chapter 3 , there have been some dramatic changes during the twentieth century in British women 's work . |
| 25 | There have been some dramatic prosecutions of commercial fraud , or what may be seen as criminal negligence . |
| 26 | As always at this time of year , there have been some notable changes on the coaching front , with Pavel Slozil switching from being with Steffi Graf to Jennifer Capriati , Pete Sampras once again breaking from Jo Brandi and then Stanley Franker , the man credit with transforming Dutch tennis , announcing first that he would be leaving Holland to work again in Austria , and then changing his mind in the light of a new and improved offer from the Dutch Tennis Federation , who , given that country 's recent success ( 3 men in the top 40 ) , were naturally unhappy about his impending departure . |
| 27 | Although there have been some notable examples of this practice ( such as Saatchi and Saatchi , and Ward White in 1984 ) it does not appear to have become commonplace . |
| 28 | And though it is usually Consumer publications that are involved there have been some notable exceptions among even the more staid members of the trade press . |
| 29 | There have been some welcome additions to the Lowestoft fleet . |