Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] some [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There has also been some hasty back-pedalling over the fate of the Cambodian border town of Pailin .
2 There has also been some interesting work on vocational education and training at the school or post-school stages ( Willis 1977 ; Gleeson and Mardle 1980 ) .
3 Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan .
4 There has also been some significant research into the use of UDC in online searching systems .
5 In his dream he felt relief because she had n't died , because it had all been some other dream , because she was smiling in the sunshine .
6 There had nevertheless been some significant overproduction against individual country quotas , apparently mainly by Iran ( an estimated 3,400,000 bpd against a quota of 3,184,000 ) and Kuwait ( whose 812,000 bpd quota reflected artificially low output levels in the aftermath of the destruction of production facilities in the Gulf War ) .
7 He could not get over the fact that the only woman who had come through the near-impossible screening , then training , had not been some six foot Amazon with a face like Atilla the Hun — but a petite , feminine five foot three in her stockinged feet , who turned all the men 's head when she passed .
8 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 .
9 Even at sixteen there had always been some marvellous " he " in her life .
10 And it had n't been some unknown island wine with mystical aphrodisiac properties , had it ?
11 The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts .
12 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 .
13 True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence .
14 There have already been some 10,000 collisions between West and East German cars this year .
15 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 .
16 OK , so the Prince and Princess of Wales may have separated , house prices might have plummeted and Luton Town have been relegated — but there have still been some fantastic technological and social advances in the past 12 months .
17 There have always been some old people who were influential and highly regarded , in contrast to the many others who were treated with ridicule , antagonism , or at best patronized as dependents .
18 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 .
19 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 .
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