Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] [det] debate [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Although local authorities and social service departments are in the process of developing systems of assessment in relation to care management , there has been little debate about the principles which ought to underpin assessment processes , nor about the purpose , scope , and content of comprehensive assessment with older people .
2 There has been little debate concerning the ‘ what ’ and the ‘ why ’ of deaf education .
3 Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession .
4 There has been much debate on the imbalance in food and drink .
5 There has been much debate about this question of the unit of natural selection .
6 As we shall see , there has been much debate about whether unemployment can be reduced permanently by following policies which increase aggregate demand and in so doing raise the rate of inflation .
7 There has been much debate about whether increases in costs can be inflationary without an accompanying increase in the money supply .
8 There has been much debate about how much such rules and procedures should be used : too much , and the organisation becomes immobilised in bureaucratic red tape ; too little , and the organisation descends into anarchic chaos .
9 In recent years , there has been much debate about the role of the C. and A.G. The office is an old and distinguished one .
10 There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) .
11 There has been much debate about the effect on the local economy , the health of local residents , and the environment .
12 Mr Lamont said : ‘ There has been much debate about Britain 's experience with the ERM .
13 Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something .
14 For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors .
15 There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less .
16 There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash .
17 In the last few years there has been some debate about the provision , role and effectiveness of postgraduate training in the social sciences in the UK .
18 ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’
19 There has been some debate on how the form of the set of types may affect the type of outcomes sustainable as a sequential equilibrium in a reputation game , see for example Vickers ( 1986 ) .
20 As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations .
21 During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs .
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