Example sentences of "there [verb] [adv] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 On the fiftieth anniversary of the dispute , in 1976 , several books appeared on the subject , producing a surfeit of published research to which there has since been no significant addition .
2 SELL-THROUGH , as the retail sector of the video market is obscurely known , is at the moment very much a bull market , and there has lately been a growing shift to releasing more recent movies in this way .
3 Since it is an A-type star there has probably been no real change , though it may be very slightly variable .
4 The report admits that " there has probably been a persistent tendency within the world 's energy industry to understate the technical potential for improvement and substitution " .
5 Although there has probably been a long-term decline in serious violence in Europe over the past several centuries , the relationship of this trend to patterns of theft and other property crime , or to broad forces of social change , remains obscure .
6 They are evolutionary in that , although many of the ‘ trials ’ , ‘ pilot studies ’ and ‘ demonstrations ’ have had different origins , there has frequently been a common thread linking one to another , and lessons learned from one have been applied in another .
7 There has thus been no overall change in balances at the Bank of England , but banks ' holdings of call notes and bills have risen .
8 There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations .
9 Throughout Ireland as a whole , there has generally been an anti-comprehensive ethos in the education system supportive of both class and sectarian divisions in schooling and which is now eroding only in part .
10 There has rarely been a clearer example of the extent to which a Conservative leader sets the keynote for the party the extent to which it is moulded round its leader .
11 There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’
12 Given these considerations , there has not been a managerial revolution .
13 A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years .
14 Well I can tell you , sir , that is incorrect , there has not been a cursory look at sites as Mr Frost has already underlined .
15 But not all of these have been discovered at the 1:50000 scale , and there has not been a systematic ley hunt over all 204 sheets .
16 There has not been a total severance with education , however , as the trust still allocates money to young people of the parish for further and higher education .
17 For it is quite clear that despite innovative legislation , the proliferation of enforcement agencies , the relatively new use of imprisonment for corporate offenders , and absolutely ( but not relatively ) large fines for offending corporations , there has not been a substantial brake on corporate crime .
18 Within the marine environment itself some palaeontologists believe that the overall richness of the marine fauna was established early on , say by the Silurian period , and that there has not been a great increase in the total number of species living in the sea at any one time since then , although of course the kinds of organisms inhabiting the sea have changed many times .
19 This high incidence of viral infection is perhaps all the more surprising since there has not been a great deal of flu around this winter so far , and many sufferers no doubt believed that they were going to escape altogether .
20 As yet , however , there has not been a corresponding overhaul and harmonisation of the member countries ’ legal systems .
21 One doctor said : ‘ There has not been a dramatic increase , but more people are definitely coming into casualty .
22 There has not been a single year when the CPS has been fully staffed .
23 There has not been a rigorous research study which attempts to relate the cluster of managerial viewpoints concerning strategic uses of information resources and information technology to the information services infrastructure of organisations .
24 As has been mentioned , one problem is that , when such cases have gone to tribunal , there has not been an overwhelming success —
25 While a great deal has been discovered about the physiology of sleep , and psychologists have developed reliable techniques for establishing when people are likely to be dreaming , there has not been an equivalent amount of progress in understanding the nature of dreams .
26 In my view , a although there 's a current debate about this there has not been the fullest public consultation and I would er myself be minded to invoke the er E C directive on this er in order to try and er to make sure that the the public feel they are fully aware of what the proposals are .
27 Short term this has enabled the UK to maintain a state-of-the-art capability , although there has not been the desired reduction in the total percentage of the defence budget committed R&D .
28 So there has not been the same emphasis on ease of use .
29 You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time .
30 There has already been a rapid consolidation among Sweden 's property investors .
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