Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] been [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the personal social services field there has been reference to the need to encourage self-help and voluntary action to keep down the cost of providing professional social care . |
| 2 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |
| 3 | I am astonished there has been silence about the anti-war demonstrations that took place in most Arab cities from Morocco to Syria . |
| 4 | There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems . |
| 5 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |