Example sentences of "[vb base] be several [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been several reported sightings of Mr Garvey 's blue Volvo estate car , but as yet non has been confirmed . |
| 2 | We 'd recommend people to stay away from them for their own safety , as there have been several violent incidents recently . ’ |
| 3 | On previous ARCs there have been several female skippers , but this year there was only one : Terri Jupp , the small but formidable boss aboard International Venturer . |
| 4 | And there have been several major episodes of extinction ( Chapter 6 ) , when the cast of characters in the sea changed almost totally . |
| 5 | There have been several major improvements to the process at Gt . |
| 6 | During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate . |
| 7 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |
| 8 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum . |
| 9 | Nevertheless , although the misuse of judicial interrogation is now only a distant history , it seems to have left its mark on public perceptions of the entire subject : and indeed not just public perceptions , for in the recent past there have been several authoritative and eloquent judicial reminders of the abuses of our former inquisitorial system and of the need to guard against their revival . |
| 10 | In addition there have been several other accidents where cars have collided with each others . |
| 11 | There have been several other occasions on which the government 's monetary targets have not been achieved . |
| 12 | Since the first British Crime Survey ( BCS ) was conducted in 1982 there have been several local surveys ( among others Merseyside , Islington , Broadwater Farm and Hammersmith and Fulham ) concerned with the incidence of crime , fear of crime , attitudes to the police and |
| 13 | There have been several bad storms on the road and they have decided to break their journey to Madrid and stay overnight in a small town . |
| 14 | They can not compete within the visible spectrum , but they will be highly competitive throughout the infrared and perhaps also in the ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions , where there have been several significant developments recently . |
| 15 | There have been several significant steps , as follows . |
| 16 | There have been several comparable studies of high-technology projects in the last two decades ( e.g. Hounshell 1988 ) . |
| 17 | There have been several imaginative schemes where special schools or units have been placed alongside mainstream schools . |
| 18 | On a more light-hearted matter there have been several amusing items discussed , including a subject that will probably have been a topic of conversation at a few lunch tables — uniforms . |
| 19 | While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets . |
| 20 | There have been several important variants of this model of the curriculum , ranging from the American pragmatists ( notably Dewey ) to the Marxist theories of ‘ polytechnical education ’ , but a recent formulation in this country is that of Lawton ( 1983 ) with his notion of general education as a selection from the eight aspects or ‘ sub-systems ’ that any culture has : social system , economic system , communication system , rationality system , technology system , morality system , belief system and aesthetic system . |
| 21 | Complementary therapies In addition to these impressive developments in ICD technology there have been several important pharmacological advances which , in the long term , may have equally important and complementary roles in the prevention of sudden cardiac death . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |
| 23 | We were in fact quite wrong as there have been several alldigital recordings made by the firm That 's Entertainment Records prior to ours , with the English National Opera . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's true that there have been several unpleasant incidents , mostly with young drunks . ’ |
| 25 | There have been several large studies of late potentials in post infarction patients ( Table 2 ) . |
| 26 | There have been several false alarms in the tabloids , but at the end of 1986 reporters thought they had a scoop . |
| 27 | Insiders at Central TV agree there have been several off-set ‘ disagreements ’ over Boon 's future . |
| 28 | The consultative procedures for the conduct of Management Services reviews has been carried out , you will be aware that there have been several consultative meetings between ourselves concerning this matter . |
| 29 | Although there have been several biochemical investigations of cytochrome P450 and glutathione S-transferase in human colonic carcinomas , it is difficult to compare directly biochemical and immunohistochemical studies of enzymes , and both approaches have advantages and limitations . |
| 30 | Although there have been no previously reported immunohistochemical studies of cytochrome P450 or epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas , there have been several biochemical studies of xenobiotic metabolising enzymes in colonic carcinomas . |