Example sentences of "have [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There has been speculation that he might have been the ideal Tory candidate for the Hexham seat if he had not already given his allegiance to Langbaurgh . |
| 32 | There has been speculation that the move might be the first step towards privatisation of the business formed as a state-owned entity in 1989 when the Government decided to withdraw the nuclear power sector from plans to privatise the rest of the electricity industry . |
| 33 | The North Korean leader Kim Il-sung is 80 years old , and there has been speculation about his health . |
| 34 | The traditional answer given as to the purpose of RE has been nurture within a particular faith . |
| 35 | ‘ Much of it has been guesswork up ‘ til now . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ That 's the crucial difference in keeping the flavour , ’ says Jermey , for whom an important concern has been authenticity . |
| 37 | Equally there has been disagreement within the LDP , business groupings or the bureaucracy , such that policy making is not the smooth process implied in Japan Inc . |
| 38 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 39 | EVER since Mikhail Gorbachev launched his concept of a Common European Home , a good two years ago , there has been discussion about the shape and content of such a dwelling . |
| 40 | While , for many years , there has been discussion , in the Schools Council and elsewhere , about the reform of the examination system and the closer integration of CSE and GCE , Sir Keith Joseph gave notice in January 1984 of much more radical changes in the assessment of pupils at the end of compulsory schooling . |
| 41 | There is a considerable volume of commentary stemming from Locke 's Some Thoughts Concerning Education ( 1693 ) , and from the reception of Rousseau 's Emile , first translated in 1763 , but this is mainly ideological , although there has been discussion of Locke 's attitude to what should be taught in straightforward histories of education . |
| 42 | Recently , there has been discussion whether the concept of ‘ attitude ’ , as used by social psychologists , should be essentially an individual or social concept . |
| 43 | There has been discussion over whether the DROs should not be better trained , possibly in other social work , in order that they can help the disabled adjust psychologically to their change of status as well as help them in practical ways . |
| 44 | There has been discussion with the Commission on the issue and it seems to adopt a similar approach . |
| 45 | I know that there has been discussion in the House of Lords , but that makes the offence worse . |
| 46 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 47 | Alan Knott has been second only to Les Ames as an England wicket-keeper/batsman . |
| 48 | Indeed , he has now won three of his last six tournaments , in two more of which he has been second . |
| 49 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 50 | There has been conflict about access from the Meadowell through this development to Percy Main and , remarkably , the Labour-controlled authority have agreed to this being blocked off . |
| 51 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 52 | A twentieth-century innovation has been man 's growing awareness of his impact on the environment . |
| 53 | All my life has been work and each other . ’ |
| 54 | There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) . |
| 55 | There has been work going on for sometime in developing user friendly programs for statistical analysis which are ‘ intelligent ’ in that they include many checks for pitfalls and errors . |
| 56 | It is clear that the proximate cause has been government action . |
| 57 | For instance , one important factor put forward to explain the growth of trade union membership among white collar workers in Britain has been government policy which created a favourable climate for such union expansion . |
| 58 | Over the past ten years it has been government policy to encourage this ( DHSS , 1976a ) . |
| 59 | Of the domestic borrowers , local authorities issued , in the years between the mid-1950s and the early 1980s , a large volume of stocks ( over five years to maturity ) and negotiable bonds ( from one to four years to maturity ) ; but in recent years it has been government policy to centralise most public-sector borrowing and as a result public issues by local authorities have all but ceased . |
| 60 | In this situation during anaesthesia the laryngeal mask has been life saving . |