Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [det] [noun sg] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been much criticism of Morgenthau on the latter score , as we shall point out in a moment . |
| 2 | There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions . |
| 3 | Prior to the reform of the market in October 1986 ( see below ) all transactions were on behalf of customers but subsequently there has been much trading between market makers as well as transactions with customers as the table shows . |
| 4 | There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats . |
| 5 | To a greater extent than with other mathematically-based research tools there has been much difference of opinion as to its relevance and utility . |
| 6 | Mr Lamont said : ‘ There has been much debate about Britain 's experience with the ERM . |
| 7 | THERE has been much comment in Blackpool about the way John Smith claps his hands , elbows out from his side so that his arms form a bar across his chest , hands thundering into each other with short , sharp smacks . |
| 8 | There has been much comment by Cleese , as well as others , about how being 6ft at the age of 12 ( he 's now 6ft 5in ) , and not being made a prefect at his public school , and being the only child of older , lower middle-class parents , set for a career as a solicitor , began the problems and embarrassments that inspire his comedy . |
| 9 | There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres . |
| 10 | There has been much talk of comets , asteroids and exploding supernovae . |
| 11 | In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology . |
| 12 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 13 | There has been little escape from St Valentinism on television , with even two of the dreaded soap operas niftily timing weddings for around now . |
| 14 | There has been little development at Bootle and on the Wirral site . |
| 15 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 16 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 17 | There has been little talk of America 's dependence on oil imports — or its missing energy policy . |
| 18 | One of the more important consequences of this action — a consequence , incidentally , that we are still feeling the effects of — has been that demand for UK goods has been reduced not only in the UK but also in the other major industrialised oil importing nations . |
| 19 | There has been less enthusiasm for options in the Far East where the Singapore International Monetary Exchange ( SIMEX ) introduced options on its CME-linked contracts in 1987 . |
| 20 | Whether or not there has been any history of violence , the association between the past and the present is bound to be significant in understanding present abuse within the family . |
| 21 | I do not think that in either case there has been any failure in interpretation of the ideas proposed , but rather that accommodation has been too readily accorded . |
| 22 | The length of that period depends on the seriousness of the punishment : where there has been any period of imprisonment between six months and thirty months , the conviction becomes " spent " after ten years have elapsed . |
| 23 | ‘ But if the lad has been any sort of problem in the past I still believe United will get the best out of him and put an end to his wandering . |
| 24 | I have considered the matter and I shall continue to do so , but I do not believe that there has been any dereliction of duty in this important matter . |
| 25 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 26 | Over the last twenty years or so , one of the things that 's slipped has been those kind of things and I believe and Peter may disagree with me , but a lot of the have been because of the commercial fact that the thing that is now driving the newspapers more than anything else is , is the advertising and advertising revenues and that drives the style of newspapers and stories that are written . |
| 27 | There has been another night of trouble on a estate notorious for joyriding . |
| 28 | In the 1980s there has been another resurgence of activity following the realisation that the country is simultaneously suffering from a high rate of unemployment and a shortage of workers with specific skills . |
| 29 | There has been some standardisation on input pulse widths and in general , pulse widths of 0.75mS to 2.2mS will produce an output shaft rotation of about 180 degrees . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , there has been some crossover of knowledge between these two camps , with each benefiting from the fertilization that has followed . |