Example sentences of "[ex0] has [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | While numbers of new AIDS cases reported officially each month have remained relatively steady , there has been a big increase in those needing expert medical and nursing advice at home with a 24-hour on call back up . |
| 2 | There has been a marked increase in reports of deaths as a result of torture in Turkish police stations . |
| 3 | There has been a degree of attenuation of this rigidity in some respects , but only in favour of the church 's interpretation . |
| 4 | As long ago now as 1974 , Michael Maguire argued a need for a semantic ethnography of police systems and the criminals they pursue ; and there has been a subsequent trickle of attempts to carry out participant observation inside the world of ‘ cops and robbers ’ . |
| 5 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 6 | And there has been a remarkable interchange of ideas between computational theorists and neuroscientists , in which attempts to create computer models of neural function have not only generated powerful new tools for the interpreting of the brain but have also fed back into computer theory and practice . |
| 7 | There has been a particularly sharp increase in long-distance commuting . |
| 8 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 9 | Until now , there has been a choice between high speed ( 22GHz ) together with high dissipation ( >0.5W per flip-flop ) or medium speed ( 9–12GHz ) with medium dissipation ( <180mW ) . |
| 10 | Since then there has been a marked divergence between school and university ; students have become less well equipped , and academics , particularly young ones , have become more high-powered , ambitious , and professionalised . |
| 11 | Across China there has been a ritualistic cleansing to erase the symbols of the student movement . |
| 12 | Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’ |
| 13 | There has been a noticeable shift of working class support from the SPD to the far-right Republicans — not as much as the losses from the Christian Democrats , but enough to worry party managers . |
| 14 | Knighton told the Manchester Evening News : ‘ There has been a whole lot of speculation and a lot of misinformation . |
| 15 | There has been a flurry of colourful rumours over the sale of Irises in the past ten days . |
| 16 | Sales last month , at 171,730 , were 10 per cent down on September 1988 — the first time there has been a month on month decline since April 1987 , according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 17 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 18 | If there has been a diminution in the voltage , however , there are compensating pleasures of wit . |
| 19 | There has been a promise that prosperity will be permanent . |
| 20 | After a boom , inflation has gone up and there has been a disastrous showing on the balance of payments . |
| 21 | Although it seems that the South is recovering its appetite for fresh fish , with restaurants buying about 30 per cent of the fish sold in the area , there is no doubt that there has been a positive nosedive in the demand for fresh fish in Britain as whole . |
| 22 | Since then there has been a long decline . |
| 23 | Other highlights of the survey suggest that the construction industry is stagnating and that there has been a steep fall in new orders , declining sales and lower selling prices . |
| 24 | Within this party , however , there has been a real move in that direction . |
| 25 | Boyes claims there has been a policy review at Pool under the chairmanship of John Smart . |
| 26 | Sister Jane Anne said that they would continue their fight : ‘ We do n't want to give up until there has been a fair hearing . ’ |
| 27 | Since then , there has been a history of militancy and while McAlpine 's has brought dramatic improvements in wages and conditions , it has also imported English managers , resented in this staunchly Welsh-speaking region . |
| 28 | ‘ That 's even more bizarre , which makes us believe there has been a mix-up of flasks , ’ Grollet said . |
| 29 | There has been a welcome pile of new recordings issued recently ; not just of the symphonies , but of the concertos and chamber music as well . |
| 30 | There has been a sensitive reaction to the teasing of national stereotypes . |