Example sentences of "there [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 2 | Only now has there been a concerted effort to abandon the tyranny of the object and the sickness of naturalism to enter within consciousness . ’ |
| 3 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 4 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 5 | ‘ Yet nowhere has there been a guide to their identification . ’ |
| 6 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 7 | Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now . |
| 8 | We can only speculate on what might have been had there been a full-hearted commitment to PR and a working agreement with the Lib Dems . |
| 9 | But in no Western country so far , other than in the years following the end of a war , has there been a major permanent reduction in the role of the state . |
| 10 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 11 | Never has there been a gas cooker with so many refinements , so many innovations , so much attention to detail as the new Moffat Discovery . |
| 12 | ‘ Has there been a further message from them ? ’ |
| 13 | Not only has there been a serious questioning of the principle of the licence fee , but there has also been a reassessment of the idea of scarcity in the airwaves , the idea of equality of service to all , and of the need for regulations . |
| 14 | However , had there been a shrine to this cult in the Cambridgeshire Fens on the edge of the Nene Valley one could consider a connection with pottery scenes . |
| 15 | Has there been a connection between the appearance of these outstanding pictures for auction and the possibility of government legislation to introduce listing of masterpieces to check their export from the U.K. ? |
| 16 | Not only has there been a reluctance on the part of directors to enforce such a remedy on behalf of the company by suing fellow directors , but its adoption in the context of insider dealing does very little to help the real victim . |
| 17 | During the 1980s rural populations have grown more slowly then they did ten years earlier and some have declined ; in contrast not only has there been a substantial slowdown in the rate of London 's population decline ( Britton 1986 ) , but it has now gone into reverse in a small way . |
| 18 | Every arms merchant worth his salt is now ready to re-arm the Gulf after the war , and never has there been a greater abundance of lethal hardware to choose from . |
| 19 | It is just conceivable that something like this might have happened had there been a Communist government in France . |
| 20 | There has certainly been a shift in the sectoral pattern of employment , but has there been a parallel shift in labour from manufacturing to services ? |
| 21 | Had n't there been a man 's voice : ‘ I am deliverance ’ ? |
| 22 | Had there been a version in each city , one might have fallen into Persian hands while another or others survived to be copied under the Empire . |
| 23 | ( Has there been a craze for pogo sticks out there ? ) |
| 24 | Only very recently has there been a development of more comprehensive concern for the disabled . |
| 25 | Chilled and soaked , he was led past the reception desk and the hurried police activity ( had there been a murder here ? |
| 26 | Why , said Pumlumon , had n't there been a time , not so very long ago either , when he could rattle off the words that set the Draoicht Suan working with no more ado than you might make in the squashing of a flea , always supposing you wanted to do something so pointless , which Pumlumon himself never had . |
| 27 | Only in recent years has there been a sustained attempt by Marxist thinkers to re-examine in a thoroughgoing fashion the relation between the state , the economy and social classes , or to analyse that historical experience which reveals the emergence of a new type of authoritarian state from the revolutionary process itself or from the centralized control of a socialist economy . |
| 28 | Had n't there been a fiver ? |
| 29 | ‘ Had there been a visitation either by your lordship or by the Archdeacon since Mr Marr took up his appointment ? ’ |
| 30 | The two things were entirely unconnected , but if it is of importance to you then you 'll be pleased to know that had there been a test you would have passed it with straight As . ’ |