Example sentences of "[adv] have [been] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet might there not have been some confused episode , something which , when Irina was much younger , had distressed her , appalled them both , something which neither of them in their childishness — for here Ludens saw Marcus as a child — had really understood ? |
| 2 | If the plant had not closed , there would undoubtedly have been some older workers who would have retired prematurely in any case . |
| 3 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |
| 4 | In years gone by there had been some clever dogs in Baldersdale . |
| 5 | ‘ We did originally conclude that the MiG 25 posed no real threat to our air defences , but it would appear there have been some new developments . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For the Church of the fourth century , there would almost certainly have been some rueful and grudging admission that Constantine was a Messiah who had succeeded where Jesus had failed , and that the Messiah as represented by both Constantine and Jesus was indeed a military and political figure — not a god , but a king with a mandate to govern . |