Example sentences of "[adv] there [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages . |
| 2 | Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests . |
| 3 | The predictions of zero-risk theory in terms of accident countermeasures are often at variance with those from RHT , thus there has been considerable debate about the relative merits of the two theories ( e.g. Evans , 1986a , b ; McKenna , 1982 , 1985 , 1988 ; Wilde , 1984 , 1986 ) . |
| 4 | NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday . |
| 5 | I accept what the hon. Lady suggests , because clearly there have been regional differences in economic conditions . |
| 6 | There is an approximation to this for all of these samples , but clearly there has been considerable bone loss from even the most complete bone assemblages . |
| 7 | However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality . |
| 8 | Now there has been real concern voiced about the delay in getting the unit off the ground . |
| 9 | Inevitably there has been considerable speculation on the causes and implications of urban disturbances . |
| 10 | But urban guerrillas do n't kidnap distinguished foreigners only to keep their exploit secret , hijackers can hardly help becoming news on the instant , and here there has been profound silence . |
| 11 | Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction . |
| 12 | But since then there has been increasing realisation that the two causes must somehow be brought together . |
| 13 | Since then there have been various releases from Beat Club , ACR , Sub Sub and The Flamingoes , both The Beat Club and Sub Sub fashioning soon-to-be-released albums . |
| 14 | Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening . |
| 15 | Aristotle commented on the mule 's infertility in 350 BC , but since then there have been sporadic accounts of fertile she-mules — particularly , in retrospect , on some special occasion like the birth of Julius Caesar . |
| 16 | Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution . |
| 17 | None the less , fortunately there have been fine contributions to the debate from the Conservative Benches . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Once again there 's been great emphasis on cash maintenance . |
| 20 | The outcome of the dominance of both is that historically there have been critical mediations between religion and politics for catholic nationalists . |
| 21 | From September 1992 onwards there had been increasing criticism of the government not only from the BSP but from the MRF and also from President Zhelyu Zhelev [ see p. 39105 ] . |
| 22 | Recently there has been increasing recognition of the importance of tax operating costs , both administrative costs to the government and compliance costs to taxpayers and third parties . |
| 23 | Recently there has been notable self-criticism among senior economists for not having given much more attention to the problem of income determination within the framework of Keynesian analysis [ Meade , 1982 ] . |
| 24 | I More recently there have been frequent criticisms of the injustice of examinations and of their effects on school . |
| 25 | Recently there have been serious developments pertaining to the activities of the group known as the Mandela Football Club which have raised great concern within the mass democratic movement and struggling people as a whole . |
| 26 | Recently there have been confusing reports about just who is at risk and what the statistics prove . |