Example sentences of "[num] there have [be] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 2 | One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism . |
| 3 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 4 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 5 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 6 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 7 | Since the 1940s there has been a global transition in health , with a rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases . |
| 8 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 9 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 10 | Since the late 1970s there has been a marked tightening of the laws which regulate public order , public morality and porn in particular . |
| 11 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
| 12 | From 1958 there was a steady improvement in the quality of Britain 's rivers , but since 1980 there has been a net deterioration of 6 per cent . |
| 13 | However , over the period since 1986 there has been a noticeable move in these areas towards splitting double modules into two singles . |
| 14 | Since 1986 there has been a remarkable reduction , especially in the figure for the long-term unemployed . |
| 15 | On Aug. 13 there had been a related wave of violent attacks by Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) . |
| 16 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 17 | compared to 1987 there has been a tremendous decrease . |
| 18 | However , in the interest of brevity , I will my remarks to points A and B. Since nineteen seventy nine there 's been a major shift away from our industrial base towards service industries . |
| 19 | Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers . |
| 20 | Already by 1890 there had been a big improvement in the relations of the Papacy with governments conscious of Roman Catholicism 's contribution to social order in a time of revolutionary fears . |
| 21 | Hence , since the late 1960s there has been a gradual erosion of the line between sales promotion and advertising . |
| 22 | Since the 1960s there has been a marked convergence of regional economic structures in terms of their mix of manufacturing industries and , as was seen in section 2.3 , in the balance between manufacturing and services . |
| 23 | As we have already seen , these make up a sizeable number of temporary workers and in the years since 1983 there has been a major expansion of special employment measures in Britain . |
| 24 | Since his appointment in 1983 there has been a remarkable turn around in the fortune of the Company as shown when this years £3.1 million profit after tax is compared to a £2 million loss five years ago . |
| 25 | Since the early 1980s there had been a steady erosion of the pro-nuclear power base within both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party . |
| 26 | He had contacted UNIT HQ and had confirmed that for a period in the 1970s and 1980s there had been a scientific advisor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart . |
| 27 | During the 1980s there has been a gradual return to more democratic government . |
| 28 | In the 1980s there has been a general move in museum education circles towards active learning experiences on site . |
| 29 | But from the early 1980s there has been a growing feeling that policy and practice were beginning to diverge . |
| 30 | Since the early 1980s there has been a sustained fall in government spending as a proportion of National Income ( see Table 15.2 ) . |