Example sentences of "[conj] there [verb] [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American rhetoric on the city shares some of these themes , notably those of enterprise and the liberating influence of the market , although there have also been distinct differences embedded in US political culture . |
| 2 | The three opponents still refusing to sign on the grounds that there had not been adequate consultation , and two more being absent , the Mayor rode off on his horse and collected a signature from one of the absentees . |
| 3 | I am not saying that there has not been considerable support for it , and he can report that to the House . |
| 4 | Note that it does not have to be shown that there has actually been oppressive enforcement simply that such is " reasonably capable " . |
| 5 | Unless the starfish really is being enhanced by some change of circumstance ( for example by fertilizer from the mainland ) then it seems inconceivable that there have not been similar outbreaks in the past . |
| 6 | Britain 's position within the international division of labour and its trade balance were examined in Chapter 1 , where it was seen that there have indeed been major shifts over the post-war period . |
| 7 | However , to the visitor in 1980 it is obvious that there have recently been big changes . |
| 8 | Once there had just been Trocchi drawing on the group 's ideas , there had been the sTigma exhibition in Better Books in 1965 , the obituary of Andrée Breton — one of the group 's intellectual roots — by Jean-Jacques Lebel in the first It fourteen months earlier . |
| 9 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 10 | You yourself provided detailed pointers to the inner workings of ‘ The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors , Even ’ , in ‘ The Green Box ’ , which is a sort of instruction manual , and there have also been numerous commentaries by critics . |
| 11 | There was an outbreak of infection with this organism in Liverpool in 1976 , which was thankfully controlled by dint of exhaustive contact-tracing , and there have only been sporadic single cases since then , mostly imported from abroad . |
| 12 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 13 | There were no warmer or more enthusiastic supporters than the BDDA in the reconstitution of the Institute , and there has always been harmonious co-operation between the two . |
| 14 | The appointment of Mr Stevens was a classic case of promoting a man beyond his level of competence and could not have happened if there had not been deep distrust in official circles of people who know what they are talking about . |
| 15 | The table was bare again , as if there had never been good food and wine . |
| 16 | But there have also been powerful motivations of a different kind . |
| 17 | When we think of Callas , we think of an incredible musician with an incredibly strong dramatic gift , but there have also been great voices in history and there are some orchestras which are successful with your understanding , at least , because they have this collective voice which impresses you immediately . |
| 18 | But there have always been other considerations . |
| 19 | Most of the growth has been in issuance of eurobonds , but there has also been significant growth in issuance of foreign bonds , largely in Swiss francs . |
| 20 | But there has also been disturbing evidence , particularly on the family front . |
| 21 | In the past these accusations were dismissed as ‘ Western-orchestrated propaganda ’ , but there has now been Soviet confirmation of a number of recent killings in the Ukrainian town of Kharkov during fights between Soviet youngsters and African students . |
| 22 | It is possible that pollution affects their reproductive and immune systems , but there has only been piecemeal research on this subject . " |
| 23 | But there has never been self-doubt . |
| 24 | This is because there has not been sufficient time to build up goodwill connected with the name and , hence , there is little danger that the public will be confused . |