Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But there has been no sign of panic flight as they remain convinced that they can still leave Libya by road , albeit at the cost of a 12-hour drive through the desert .
2 The French have just joined Russia in declaring that they will temporarily halt testing ; Boris Yeltsin could be under pressure to rescind Russia 's test ban in September if there has been no sign of flexibility from Britain and the US .
3 There has been no word of apology or interest paid on money retained .
4 There has been no payment on account .
5 They say there has been no shortage of interest in the project from potential backers .
6 There has been no shortage of material for his autobiography , What 's It All About ?
7 Granulomas can be due to a wide variety of causes but other investigations were negative and there has been no evidence of tuberculosis or other infecton on follow-up .
8 There has been no strike in agriculture since 1923 and the instinct of the farm worker is to shun rather than seek the kind of publicity which would be required to engender public support for his cause .
9 There has been no strike in agriculture in England since 1923 .
10 This right does not arise under the SGA where the contract provides for delivery in more than one consignment , since there has been no breach in respect of goods not yet delivered , however reasonable it is for the buyer to fear that there will be in the future .
11 It seems that there has been no period of time during which man has endeavoured to conduct and control his affairs without providing for himself a worshipable entity or being to whom he can appeal , and to whom he has attributed powers of control over all that happens in the universe , particularly on earth .
12 A. vole molars with light digestion from European eagle owl assemblage ( ×13 ) ; B. vole molar from the same eagle owl assemblage with digestion exposing the dentine along the lengths of the salient angles of the teeth ( ×28 ) ; C. enlargement of same ( ×188 ) ; D. rooted vole molar from tawny owl assemblage with digestion exposing dentine along salient angles ( ×25 ) ; E. enlargement of same ( ×33 ) ; F. enlargement of same : there has been no loss of dentine ( ×57 ) ; G. murid molar from European eagle owl assemblage showing extensive superficial digestion ( ×20 ) ; H. enlargement of same ( ×27 ) ; 1 .
13 Up until now there has been no uniformity of presentation of nutrition information ; a manufacturer has been free to give what information he wants in the way he chooses to express it .
14 They have been able to work in government service , even in the army , and there has been no need for work permits .
15 But , as stated in Anderson v. The Queen , at p. 108 , per Lord Guest ‘ in cases of murder great care must be taken to see that there has been no miscarriage of justice ’ and the test , a strict one , has been described in Woolmington v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1935 ] A.C. 462 , 482–483 , per Viscount Sankey L.C. as whether ‘ if the jury had been properly directed they would have inevitably have come to the same conclusion ’ and in Stirland v. Director of Public Prosecutions [ 1944 ] A.C. 315 , 312 , per Viscount Simon L.C. , as involving ‘ a situation where a reasonable jury , after being properly directed , would , on the evidence properly admissible , without doubt convict . ’
16 The strapping Kiwi international centre — 6ft 3in and 16 stone — has been no stranger to Aussie disciplinary chiefs while playing with his Sydney club Canterbury-Bankstown .
17 But the figures in both groups indicate that there has been no decrease in housewor k time over this period .
18 There has been no injury to bowel in the 113 patients in whom the procedure was attempted , although others have reported this complication .
19 Every game between the teams since has been a struggle for superiority and status with Dundee in the role of the local aristocrat and St Johnstone the perennial grousebeater .
20 The obsession with homogeneous populations and monocultural , monolingual societies has been a feature of life only since capitalist economics forced a uniformity of workforces and markets .
21 This is especially true in the context of Latin America where this kind of duality and fusion has been a feature of culture from the time of the conquest right up until today — both on the popular and the intellectual level .
22 Frequent tinkering with the system has been a feature of politics in France , where it is possible to change the constitution by simple majority .
23 There has been a revival of catastrophe theory , a return to doctrines over 200 years old , to explain extinctions .
24 ( a ) Stamp duty No " PD Form " is required unless there has been a conveyance on sale ( eg Precedents 9 and 10 ) .
25 ‘ Over the past twenty years or so ’ , he announced in a Daily Express front-page splash , ‘ there has been a revulsion from authority and discipline …
26 I know that there has been a problem with beef in Moscow .
27 This has been a problem in metabolite measurements when using enzyme electrodes .
28 The small , peaceful island of Iona has been a centre of Christianity since St Columba founded his monastery there .
29 Since then , there has been a fall in prevalence among boys ( from 13% in 1984 to 8% in 1988 ) and less markedly among girls ( from 13% to 11% ) [ 5 ] .
30 9.14 Compensation on vacating Any statutory right of the Tenant to claim compensation from the Landlord on vacating the Premises shall be excluded to the extent that the law allows Basically , the landlord can deny the tenant statutory compensation ( currently the rateable value of the premises ) if there has been a change of ownership during the last five years of the term prior to its expiration and the assignee is not a successor to the business of the assignor .
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