Example sentences of "[noun] there [verb] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students .
2 Over the last twelve months there have been 51 cases of dysentery in Oxfordshire .
3 Only last Friday there had been great excitement over Janice 's eighth birthday party .
4 In the Grampian and Northern areas there have been big increases in both murder and attempted murder .
5 Because of such concerns there has been considerable opposition to the testing of genetically engineered organisms in the field , as is exemplified by the furore surrounding the release of the so-called ‘ ice minus ’ bacterium .
6 Alongside the clinical concerns there has been significant progress in our understanding of the molecular genetics .
7 In all these countries there have been major debates about what policy to adopt in order to restrict the arrival of such people .
8 There is evidence of a growing interest in payment systems in a variety of quarters , e.g. amongst economists there is renewed interest in the link between productivity and the way labour is paid ; management theorists are paying more attention to new forms of payment within their overall interest in making in making firms more responsive ; and amongst managers and government officials there has been considerable interest expressed in performance-related pay , merit-pay and profit-sharing .
9 For plants there have been numerous papers on the relationship between growth indicators such as dry weight or leaf area and time .
10 In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker .
11 Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based .
12 We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past .
13 By contrast , in the growth sectors of manufacturing and services within the non-metropolitan regions there have been strong tendencies of concentration in the main settlements .
14 In the Somerset Levels there have been great changes since the Roman period ( Fig.48 ) .
15 I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors .
16 In yet other cases there has been little attempt to intervene .
17 But in a majority of cases there has been some success , and in many instances the outcome has been very successful .
18 In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature .
19 Since the mid-1970s there has been growing recognition that residential care can only be effective when it is part of a package aimed at helping the family as a whole , and where parents are involved in all aspects of the care process .
20 The graphs indicate that on these measures there have been substantial changes over the post-war period .
21 Application there have been three meetings er those meetings those .
22 In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day .
23 However , the Community has always had variable depth in its integration — in some areas it has been deeply integrated and in others there has been shallower integration .
24 Around the country there have been isolated examples of operations going wrong perhaps because surgeons have not had good enough training .
25 To a greater extent than with other mathematically-based research tools there has been much difference of opinion as to its relevance and utility .
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