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

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1 I think there may have been some mental instability on Grandfather 's part .
2 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 .
3 In fact , had the recognised procedure been followed , there might have been some slight additional delay .
4 That must have been some key phrase to establish identity .
5 I thought it was in support of the IRA but it could have been some other organization , such as the Women 's Liberation people .
6 For example , It turned scarlet does not entail It turned red , since the referent of it may have been some other shade of red to begin with ; nor , obviously , does the reverse entailment hold .
7 There might have been some other more rational explanation , but it was not furnished to the House by the Secretary of State .
8 If it had n't been Gabriel , it would have been some other angel along the way .
9 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 .
10 This may have played some role in the big decline in the profitability of Japanese industry over the same period as Japanese exporters were forced to accept lower profit margins , but there will have been some compensating improvement in the profitability of import-competing industries in the United States and Europe as Japanese exporters found themselves obliged to raise their prices to recoup some of the cost increases .
11 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 .
12 The recommended books might have been borrowed from a fellow student , or bought , or there could have been some alternative reading .
13 Well I do n't know that must have been some clever fella to do it did n't he ?
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 Although the possibility remains that there may have been some undetectable degree of portosystemic shunting , our patient did not have clinically evident portal hypertension .
17 There may have been some dietary change , despite the absence of change in enamel thickness , but this has yet to be tested .
18 As a result , there might have been some minor publicity , but how right my hon. Friend the Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) was : people would have talked about there being no smoke without fire .
19 That is , there might have been some discernible difference in content between them .
20 Apart from some of its bones showing , it could have been some alien kind of embryo .
21 There will have been some satisfied smiles on the buses back to Bolton last night .
22 There may have been some generic connection between the Anatolian deity and the Minoan deity whose symbol was also the double-axe .
23 For the Church of the fourth century , there would almost certainly have been some rueful and grudging admission that Constantine was a Messiah who had succeeded where Jesus had failed , and that the Messiah as represented by both Constantine and Jesus was indeed a military and political figure — not a god , but a king with a mandate to govern .
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