Example sentences of "[noun sg] [ex0] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But within our association there has been no noticable number of bankruptcies . |
| 2 | ‘ But within our association there has been no noticable number of bankruptcies . |
| 3 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 4 | On the import side there has been a disturbing trend comprising two related factors : |
| 5 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 6 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 7 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 8 | As a result there had been very few scientific studies which would make their case harder to win , he said . |
| 9 | As a result there have been real achievements : hundreds of thousands of workers have been trained to work in rural areas and attack fatal conditions like dehydration from diarrhoea ( still the main killer of young children worldwide ) with the simplest and cheapest remedies . |
| 10 | As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families . |
| 11 | As a result there has been repeated political intervention in the bargaining strategies of railway management , with the government even orchestrating the negotiations in detail , as Gourvish convincingly documents for BR ( 1986 : chapters 7 , 12 ) . |
| 12 | As a result there has been a substantial growth in customer visits and a significant increase in our market share . |
| 13 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 14 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 15 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 16 | Recently in the Department there has been an instance of a telephone order which has been brought to my attention by the County Council auditors . |
| 17 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 18 | over fishing there 's been . |
| 19 | Yet again , throughout this chapter there have been repeated references to the precariousness of the financial position of the District , notwithstanding the introduction of grant-aid under the 1924 Adult Education Regulations . |
| 20 | Already in this chapter there has been a discussion of the factors which appear to contribute to varying regional prosperity . |
| 21 | At Pagham Harbour there has been a very sharp increase from one to three pairs up to 1974 to 12 in 1976 . |
| 22 | Juron managed to heave the access panel back into position behind him , and what little light there had been diminished even more . |
| 23 | Outside , the afternoon was wet and miserable-looking , and what little light there had been — watery and grey — was going now . |
| 24 | Will my right hon. and learned Friend confirm that under Conservative rule there has been a 30 per cent . |
| 25 | Over the long term there has been an ‘ age-migration ’ of the accident statistics , whereby the number of under-15s killed per annum has fallen by 61 per cent from 1927–82 compared to an 80 per cent increase for the 15–24 year old group . |
| 26 | But , within the decade , it seems clear that any long-term trend is outweighed by temporary fluctuations in the economy and the availability of credit ; though in the short term there has been quite a sharp increase in credit use at the close of the decade . |
| 27 | During this probationary term there have been two training Saturdays in South London and a residential weekend in Buckinghamshire . |
| 28 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 29 | As with other elements of gerontological research there has been a tendency to treat the institutional population as a homogeneous social group . |
| 30 | Even in winter there had been no " feel " to the soft London air and I half closed my eyes as I followed the tingle all the way down to my lungs . |