Example sentences of "there have been numerous " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been numerous dark arched carved-wood doors leading off the hall , most of which she had still to investigate … |
| 2 | Before the decisive revolt , which provoked the full-scale Roman backlash , there had been numerous abortive insurrections extending back to Jesus 's time and , indeed , well before . |
| 3 | In recent months there had been numerous incidents , in Armenia and the disputed Nagorny Karabakh enclave within Armenia , in which Armenian militants ambushed troops and raided police stations to capture weapons [ for worst such incident , in Yerevan in May , see p. 37462 ] . |
| 4 | In the aftermath of the failed August coup in the Soviet Union there had been numerous demands and demonstrations in support of a ban on communist activities in Romania . |
| 5 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 6 | There had been numerous movies about ghosts and aliens before these . |
| 7 | Taking only the period in which this book has been written , and limiting the location to the UK , there have been numerous similar press-provoked scandals in which the homosexual has kept turning up where he or she should not , especially at the ‘ respectable ’ centre of things : in MI5 , the Houses of Parliament , as parliamentary candidate , schoolteacher , council employee , prison chaplain , vicar , guard to the Queen Mother , film star , circuit judge , to cite only some ( and some whose lives have been destroyed by homophobic media harassment ) . |
| 8 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 9 | In the twentieth century there have been numerous if somewhat isolated expressions of interest in Leapor 's work . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |
| 11 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
| 12 | There have been numerous suggestions over the years that profiles or school reports should be used in conjunction with examination results . |
| 13 | We 've had various explanations , including the British Post Office telling us that Australia 's strike record is as bad as Britain 's and that there have been numerous disputes that have delayed the mail to that country . |
| 14 | All through the 1960s to the present there have been numerous minor changes of staff but the net result has been a gradual increase in numbers of the field staff to meet the ever growing commitments . |
| 15 | There have been numerous suggestions of increased numbers of racial attacks , many supposedly attributable directly or indirectly to the BNP 's presence , although racial attacks in many parts of London are , and have long been , so numerous ( and usually unreported ) that only a tiny fraction even of the most serious could ever be laid at the BNP 's door . |
| 16 | In recent years , particularly in the US , there have been numerous experiments with new organisational shapes to replace the omnipresent pyramid . |
| 17 | Sir , — There have been numerous reports this year of Ipswich Town 's failure to get to grips with the increased demand for tickets . |
| 18 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 19 | There have been numerous and convincing criticisms of the data used in these exercises and of their disregard of other forces , in particular of the causal influence of prices on wage demands and of complex institutional pressures which result in marked stickiness in downward adjustments of wage rates [ Phelps Brown , 1975 ] . |
| 20 | When the organisers at Palazzo Grassi , the FIAT Foundation 's Venetian exhibition space , approached the scholar Massimo Pallottino with the suggestion that he organise an exhibition on the Etruscans he expressed surprise : there have been numerous Etruscan shows in Europe since the large touring exhibition of 1955–56 , the most recent being the ‘ Progetto Etrusco ’ in 1985 which involved the whole of Italy . |
| 21 | As Amina Okada , the author of this book points out , there have been numerous publications on Mughal art but none that have concentrated on the individual artists . |
| 22 | There have been numerous criticisms of Freud 's theory of the Oedipus complex , and of his implied view of female sexuality . |
| 23 | In the years since The Brook Kerith was published , there have been numerous other fictionalised accounts of the Gospel story . |
| 24 | On a local or regional scale , such events can pose serious threats to human health — there have been numerous deaths resulting from the consumption of seafood containing algal toxins . |
| 25 | There have been numerous calls for a more positive statement of the right to demonstrate peacefully , perhaps by the incorporation of Article 11 of the ECHR as part of domestic law . |
| 26 | There have been numerous changes recently to the way unemployment figures are counted , producing a downwards adjustment . |
| 27 | In the November review of both 1987 and 1988 , the Government announced the freezing of child benefit payments since the 1988 statement there have been numerous ominous statements , all stressing that the future of the benefit is ‘ under review ’ . |
| 28 | There have been numerous large-scale excavations on historic towns , many individual historical studies and a variety of general works on urban origins and development . |
| 29 | There have been numerous examples of varying degrees of seriousness over the years . |
| 30 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |