Example sentences of "have [adv] be some [adj] " 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 True , the FBI can help protect Arab-Americans : there have already been some scattered incidents of violence .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
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 Expressing the above statement in terms of functionals we have where is some functional to be determined .
8 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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