Example sentences of "been several [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been several nasty incidents recently in the town when lone women had been subjected to attacks of one kind or another , so she could n't help but look over her shoulder as she made her way along the rows of parked cars to where her small Fiesta was parked next to a sleek-looking Jaguar . |
| 2 | There have , however , been several deaf Princes and Princesses , and a number of Dukes and Earls , and a Queen Consort ( wife of a British King ) . |
| 3 | In regard to his relations with the Vietnamese de Lattre claimed that Bao Dai was the ablest statesman in Vietnam ; but perhaps rather spoilt things by adding that there had been several recent instances when Bao Dai ‘ had showed the proper co-operative spirit and , in some cases , even initiative ’ . |
| 4 | Indeed there have been several recent cases ( for example , ones involving alleged sexual abuse ) in which wide-ranging injunctions have been issued to protect the welfare of children who may otherwise have been exposed to unwelcome publicity . |
| 5 | Although the incidence of gastric cancer is declining worldwide , especially in the developed countries of North America , Europe , and Japan , there have been several recent reports showing that there has been an increase in carcinomas of the cardia compared with carcinomas in the antrum . |
| 6 | On previous ARCs there have been several female skippers , but this year there was only one : Terri Jupp , the small but formidable boss aboard International Venturer . |
| 7 | There had been several small books published earlier . |
| 8 | During the last 12 months or so there have been several major developments which will influence the international economic climate in which we all operate . |
| 9 | There have been several major improvements to the process at Gt . |
| 10 | And there have been several major episodes of extinction ( Chapter 6 ) , when the cast of characters in the sea changed almost totally . |
| 11 | We 'd recommend people to stay away from them for their own safety , as there have been several violent incidents recently . ’ |
| 12 | In addition there have been several other accidents where cars have collided with each others . |
| 13 | This time the red that flooded Folly 's face was of annoyance — until the thought occurred to her that there had been several other sets of serviceable underwear she could have chosen . |
| 14 | There have been several other occasions on which the government 's monetary targets have not been achieved . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's true that there have been several unpleasant incidents , mostly with young drunks . ’ |
| 16 | There have been several imaginative schemes where special schools or units have been placed alongside mainstream schools . |
| 17 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 18 | We were in fact quite wrong as there have been several alldigital recordings made by the firm That 's Entertainment Records prior to ours , with the English National Opera . |
| 19 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |
| 20 | The consultative procedures for the conduct of Management Services reviews has been carried out , you will be aware that there have been several consultative meetings between ourselves concerning this matter . |
| 21 | While there have been several academic studies using data from the 1982 , and the subsequent 1984 BCS , there has been little or no independent research using the local data sets . |
| 22 | There 've been several reported sightings of Mr Garvey 's blue Volvo estate car , but as yet non has been confirmed . |
| 23 | There have been several bad storms on the road and they have decided to break their journey to Madrid and stay overnight in a small town . |
| 24 | There have been several large studies of late potentials in post infarction patients ( Table 2 ) . |
| 25 | There have been several important variants of this model of the curriculum , ranging from the American pragmatists ( notably Dewey ) to the Marxist theories of ‘ polytechnical education ’ , but a recent formulation in this country is that of Lawton ( 1983 ) with his notion of general education as a selection from the eight aspects or ‘ sub-systems ’ that any culture has : social system , economic system , communication system , rationality system , technology system , morality system , belief system and aesthetic system . |
| 26 | Since the first British Crime Survey ( BCS ) was conducted in 1982 there have been several local surveys ( among others Merseyside , Islington , Broadwater Farm and Hammersmith and Fulham ) concerned with the incidence of crime , fear of crime , attitudes to the police and |
| 27 | Although there have been no previously reported immunohistochemical studies of cytochrome P450 or epoxide hydrolase in colonic carcinomas , there have been several biochemical studies of xenobiotic metabolising enzymes in colonic carcinomas . |
| 28 | Although there have been several biochemical investigations of cytochrome P450 and glutathione S-transferase in human colonic carcinomas , it is difficult to compare directly biochemical and immunohistochemical studies of enzymes , and both approaches have advantages and limitations . |
| 29 | Before the successful insurrection of 1815 there had been several isolated incidents in which bands of Serbs attacked and murdered Turkish officials . |
| 30 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |