Example sentences of "there [verb] [adv] [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 " . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There has thus been a significant debate about the extent to which the state still dominates in international relations . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ There has not been a better centre half in the country for the last 18 months . ’ |
| 9 | Given these considerations , there has not been a managerial revolution . |
| 10 | A third factor is that there has not been a major epidemic in Britain for 20 years . |
| 11 | Well I can tell you , sir , that is incorrect , there has not been a cursory look at sites as Mr Frost has already underlined . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As yet , however , there has not been a corresponding overhaul and harmonisation of the member countries ’ legal systems . |
| 18 | One doctor said : ‘ There has not been a dramatic increase , but more people are definitely coming into casualty . |
| 19 | There has not been a single year when the CPS has been fully staffed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | As has been mentioned , one problem is that , when such cases have gone to tribunal , there has not been an overwhelming success — |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | You want to appeal but there has already been a long delay , and you urgently need to get it right this time . |
| 24 | There has already been a rapid consolidation among Sweden 's property investors . |
| 25 | Since the mid-1980s , there has also been a sharp growth in the numbers of foreign aid donors giving various kinds of scholarships , either for study abroad or training in South Africa . |
| 26 | There has also been a 10.1 per cent . |
| 27 | But there has also been a wider questioning of the whole conception of a transition to socialism . |
| 28 | ‘ Israel has fled before the Philistines , and there has also been a great slaughter among the people ; your two sons also , Hophni and Phinehas , are dead , and the ark of God has been captured . ’ |
| 29 | There has also been a great deal of adulation which is perhaps even more harmful for it generates mysticism . |
| 30 | With greater individual involvement , there has also been a great increase in the number of links with universities and other outside research centres . |