Example sentences of "[conj] there [verb] [adv] been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Areas where there had previously been little opportunity for women to have waged work ( the coalfields of the old peripheral regions were the classic example ) would provide such a reserve of labour and would therefore be attractive to manufacturing industry . |
| 2 | The war situation has also had an influence in the deterioration of education because there are places — especially in the rural areas — where there has n't been any normality in schools for years . |
| 3 | Once again if these changes continue to develop in the UK , the classification and definition of what constitutes a rural area will have to be radically altered , although there have already been some changes , as the next section demonstrates . |
| 4 | Tammuz had been so gentle that there 'd hardly been any pain , expertly coaxing each orifice to orgasm until Zambia felt SHe must die from sensory overload . |
| 5 | His desire to devastate our residential sector and close seventeen homes will be thwarted somebody over there , it may have been Mr it may not have been , said that there had n't been any redundancies . |
| 6 | She 'd removed her ripped stockings earlier and now , as she looked down at the patchwork of scratches and grazes , she was relieved that there had n't been more damage . |
| 7 | If Eva had any regrets it was that her mother had never been able to put in words just how much she obviously meant to her , and that there had not been more time to spend with her parents over the years . |
| 8 | Yesterday , Lord Ross , the Lord Justice-Clerk , sitting with Lords McCluskey and Morison , was told that the hearing had been cancelled because the licensing authority now conceded that there had not been enough evidence to justify applying for the warrant . |
| 9 | The Boards were far from innocent , however , and when they later developed a proper accounting system to allocate overheads fairly it was found that there had indeed been some unfair cross-subsidisation to their contracting accounts . |
| 10 | Or should he turn desire aside and pretend that there had never been that brief , blinding flare of longing between them ? |
| 11 | As for the matter of the diversion of funds , he still believed that there had never been such a thing . |
| 12 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 13 | The Preface further explains that there had recently been many books published by amateurs , ‘ mere plagiarists , , who had confused names and caused trouble , not only to customers , but also to the growers . |
| 14 | In the second paragraph he said : ’ During our discussions I accepted that there had possibly been some scope for misunderstanding . |
| 15 | Hundreds of enthusiasts maintain their old Healeys in showroom condition because they feel that there 's never been another car like it . |
| 16 | David Rigg , commercial development director , reminisced nostalgically that there has not been such a boom in his business since the rush to decolonise Africa some 30 years ago . |
| 17 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 18 | The problem with British rain is only partly that there has not been enough of it . |
| 19 | And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since . |
| 20 | Indeed we may say that there has always been such a tendency , in the patristic period likewise , to collapse the distinction between the two natures . |
| 21 | As I have told my hon. Friend before , I do not think that there has ever been any prospect of any member of the European Community or of the United Nations believing that a United Nations or a Western European Union peace-keeping force could force its way into Yugoslavia against the opposition either of the Yugoslav national army — the JNA — or of any armed force . |
| 22 | Indeed , it is often assumed by Continental and North American commentators that there has never been any significant literary theory in England . |
| 23 | I should say that there has never been any issue as to the fact that the child 's habitual residence was at all material time in Ontario . |
| 24 | The reason for the density method 's increased efficiency is that there has indeed been some improvement in the estimate of h* ( n ) . |
| 25 | that there have n't been any forces of change for a thousand years . |
| 26 | Now , although I have great respect for er , the representative of the Osteoporosis Society I se , I still think as a epidemiologist that there have n't been enough women on H R T for long enough |
| 27 | But to imply , in however tentative a way , that there have not been some fundamental changes in the English experience of Ireland since Spenser 's day , helps on the one hand to re-energise the Renaissance texts by demonstrating their continuing cultural negotiations , but also curiously helps to valorise Spenser 's perspective . |
| 28 | Historically we can establish that there have always been these waves of hooliganism in particular form . |
| 29 | I accept that there have always been some problems , but if one keeps filling the pot with water it will overflow . |
| 30 | The welfare state in Britain has always been pluralistic in that there have always been several sources of welfare provision . |