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

  Next page
No Sentence
1 There have already been some improvements in organisation in the forces which battle drugs and terrorism , two areas of crime which recognise no geographical boundaries .
2 Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates .
3 There have always been some students in serious difficulties .
4 I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow .
5 There have also been some reports of ‘ disappearances ’ following arrests by the military or police since July 1990 .
6 While research on the agronomic side of conservation has taken considerable strides during the past fifteen years for all its problems of misapplication , there have also been some advances in the thinking on the socio-economic side of soil erosion and the resulting design of conservation programmes as well .
7 Whether the costs savings are very considerable is hard to say but there have undoubtedly been some sayings ; what is clear , however , is that costs have been whittled down and that this has had a widespread effect on the production of newspapers in Britain .
  Next page