Example sentences of "[adv] [been] some [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , there have latterly been some notable donations from individuals in Britain : like the Sainsbury brothers ' new wing for the National Gallery and the Clore Foundation 's for the Tate ; Terence Conran 's £7m for the establishment of the Design Museum in Docklands , and Paul Hamlyn 's cheap weeks for children at the Royal Opera House . |
| 2 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 3 | The party 's vice-chairman , Mr Peter Morrison , betrayed the Tories ' nerves : ‘ It would have been extremely surprising if , after 15 years as party leader and over 10 years as prime minister , there had not been some dissenting voices . |
| 4 | True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence . |
| 5 | There have already been some 10,000 collisions between West and East German cars this year . |
| 6 | There have also been some striking results from an Australian project which developed methods by which the students ( aged 15-16 ) took greater control of their own learning , including planning the lesson sequences and posing their own questions for enquiry . |
| 7 | To be sure , I have had to deal with various phenomena and minister to those who have experienced them , and there have certainly been some chilling moments , but in general a ghost would have to flay me alive with its chains before I raised an eyebrow at the possibility of its presence . |