Example sentences of "been [adj] [noun] [prep] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , he says , there have been strong demands from some groups to screen all pregnant women for toxoplasmosis , an infectious disease that can damage the nervous system . |
| 2 | The Roebuck family had probably been staunch Nonconformists for some time . |
| 3 | It has evidently met with considerable enthusiasm , but there has been initial resistance from some staff and parents who still favour a more academic approach to teaching and learning . |
| 4 | Injuries and fitness have been topical issues for some time now . |
| 5 | Now I I 've chosen an example w with a Conservative Secretary of State and the Labour majority , but I ask the Noble Lords on all , in all parts of the House to think it could work the other way round , because a Labour Secretary of State could exercise exactly these powers in an area where with a er Conservative majority on on er on on the local council or councils and I ask the House to think of this , not in a party er as a as a party issue between Labour , Conservative or Liberal Democrat , I just ask you to consider whether it is right for a Secretary of State of any political persuasion to er secure by appointment to a police authority a political control from the centre of that police authority , because that is what the Government 's presents proposals would still achieve and er it is our view and it is the view of which is which is finds expression in Amendments five , eight and eleven that the we should return to the tripartite system of p of policing which policing is a partnership between the Chief Constable er the local authority in the area and the Home Secretary , that er tripartite arrangement has worked extremely well for thirty years , there have been minor conflicts in some parts of the country , but nothing to justify the wholesale removal of of of the partnership which is now proposed . |