Example sentences of "been [noun] in some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until this time , the mainstay of treatment for syphilis had been mercury in some form or other , either by internal administration or in the form of unctions . |
| 2 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 3 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 4 | ‘ And indeed we might say that the very greatest soldiers — Joshua , David , Alexander — who lent me one of my Christian names — Caesar , of course , our own great Alfred — the only king we call Great — Edward — and we could extend the list into the present — all have been scholars in some manner . |
| 5 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 6 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |