Example sentences of "and there [vb mod] [verb] been [det] " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand , the pressing need for a dynamic pope to exploit the political vacuum left by the unexpected death of the Emperor Henry VI and the advantages of a third Roman pope in a row may have won over the opposition — and there may have been those impressed by his vigorous views on the papacy 's role .
2 The dental remains indicate little more than a dependence on a hard-fruit diet , and there may have been several species with this inclination .
3 Times were not easy and there would have been much evidence of hardship , although actually we know very little of the ordinary day-to-day life of the miner and his family .
4 She said : " I felt at an earlier stage there were enough moderate Africans who could have taken their place alongside whites in government and there would have been much more evolution towards African leadership than the revolution that came about in the end .
5 And there would have been little risk , if they had bothered to ask at Snow Hill what time the beat constable was due to pass by .
6 Du Camp probably coarsened it in the retelling , and there would have been many Flaubertian redraftings before publication .
7 But these were the only two films he had made in seven years , and there could have been little doubt that his particular tradition of uniformed , clenched , period Englishmen had become unfashionable in America with the coming of the new realist cinema immediately after the war .
8 Though the prestige of Aldfrith 's descent from the Uí Néill will not have been negligible , he was born out of wedlock and there must have been many legitimate sons of other Northumbrian lords who claimed descent from Ida .
9 It was not a contest to excite the audience and there must have been some anxiety in Mason 's corner as it approached a critical stage .
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