Example sentences of "[pron] have been [det] [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 In Britain , to date , there has been little experience of union influence over selection amongst the technical and social options for information technology .
2 Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector .
3 But so far there has been little sign of it .
4 So far , though , there has been little sign of anyone wanting to start a branch in London .
5 What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ?
6 So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it .
7 There has been little talk of America 's dependence on oil imports — or its missing energy policy .
8 While putting sex back into politics , there has been little recognition of how appearance affects the politics of sex .
9 Since then , there has been little news of the orangs , other than that three are still in the research laboratory , and seven are in a cage at Bukit Soeharto .
10 There has been little mention of this aspect so far , but it appears that Customs will be empowered to vary the terms by publishing a notice ; that indicates that it will be quite strictly enforced .
11 But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation .
12 There has been much criticism of the government 's housing policy , much of it from organisations outside parliament .
13 There has been much criticism of Morgenthau on the latter score , as we shall point out in a moment .
14 There has been much criticism of the overlap period , particularly in the afternoon .
15 There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) .
16 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 .
17 There has been much discussion of recent SNP parliamentary tactics .
18 Since Sherrington 's classic The Integrative Action of the Nervous System , there has been much talk of ‘ the integrative activity of the nervous system ’ , based upon the convergence of nervous pathways .
19 There has been much talk of comets , asteroids and exploding supernovae .
20 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 .
21 There has been another night of trouble on a estate notorious for joyriding .
22 In almost all villages however there has been some element of change , and usually there has been a set of related changes in which social polarization is accompanied by segregation and a shift of political power to a new ruling group , dominated by in-migrants .
23 It is thought that there has been some element of a share dealing ring in the Dunsdale case .
24 Nevertheless , there has been some crossover of knowledge between these two camps , with each benefiting from the fertilization that has followed .
25 I think erm er I know there has been some discussion of I I about er and I put er , in this report I think all the documentation that the ministers and ministers that had already seen it and I 've explained that the big issue is that er the URC , I think a weekly account o ah of all other informations has er , worked out very on the basis of five thousand and I was been tugging you pay your car off to get that and .
26 An even more extreme form of this way of thinking is to assume that there has been some type of directive force in evolution such that humans represent the ‘ pinnacle ’ of progress .
27 Silly me — I had thought that that was party policy , but unfortunately there has been some turning of the tide .
28 From the analysis of what can be defined , within this tendency , as the social forms of art , there has been some development of the analysis of their corresponding social formations .
29 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
30 However , there has been some decentralization of office employment since the mid-1960s , with a redistribution away from London to the outer-metropolitan areas .
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