Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [verb] been some " in BNC.

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1 Although most of the ‘ Lees ’ were probably Flanellys or Murphies , there may have been some Romanies present .
2 There may have been some species which were attached to floating seaweed .
3 The OFT client survey in 1985 found that organisations commissioning consulting architects were , in general , paying 10–15 per cent below the RIBA recommended scale , indicating that there may have been some small reduction in the fee income of architects after 1982 .
4 This does not necessarily mean that the genetic information has been lost , but only that there may have been some chemical modification which makes crucial genes inaccessible .
5 There may have been some leak , causing hallucinations , wholesale insanity . ’
6 There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe .
7 There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested .
8 While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems .
9 I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
10 There may be a s there may have been some guests turn up
11 Since the Wilson Committee reported there may have been some improvement in the availability of bank finance for small businesses .
12 He merely strengthens the conclusions of the three wise men , who think that there may have been some recent decline but who certainly did not atribute it to the national curriculum , as the hon. Gentleman did .
13 There may have been some support for him among the cardinals , but they were not prepared to act in concert and several now put themselves forward .
14 Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension .
15 There may have been some weather impact in the last two months , but basically , it looks like the major U S oil companies that were going overseas are still spending money on buying leases and building up infrastructure .
16 Though there may have been some hostility between the victuallers and the non-victuallers , this can hardly have been the only factor involved .
17 Well apart from those things erm tt when , when you were talking about the back erm Steve sort of gestured , in a way , that yes my back was erm oh my back , yes , that 's only a one off thing , there may have been some other health problem there which could 've gone into .
18 It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage .
19 From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood .
20 Hall no doubt attempted to justify his action , by referring to the meeting that he had with Lewis on 4th August , and although Palmerston said that he had checked with Lewis , there must have been some misunderstanding between the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer .
21 However , as far as Judaism is concerned , there must have been some indication of inherent righteousness within it which made it desirable to people who were not born Jews , and the arrival of a form which seemed to satisfy that inexorable need for a ‘ god ’ , and which was available to all , gave Christianity its initial impetus .
22 There must have been some magic in his fingers because they made her head tingle .
23 There must have been some kind of remorse .
24 The thing was , there must have been some sort of short circuit in the amp , because every time I played the damn 'd thing , I got a shock !
25 There must have been some , but I could n't find any .
26 There must have been some point of contact .
27 There must have been some great stars and some ecstatic moments in those cosy halls but there must also have been many second- and third-rate performers , constant recourse to stereotypes , excessive repetition , and buckets of sentimentality .
28 ‘ But there must have been some word , ’ she said impatiently , ‘ some message . ’
29 But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies .
30 The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe can not have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles .
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