Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] [been] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But so far there has been little sign of it . |
| 32 | So far , though , there has been little sign of anyone wanting to start a branch in London . |
| 33 | For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market . |
| 34 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |
| 35 | There has been little development at Bootle and on the Wirral site . |
| 36 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 37 | There has been little discussion , however , about what this ‘ tragedy ’ might be or mean . |
| 38 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 39 | There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring . |
| 40 | In Ecuador there has been little unionisation , but organisations based on ethnicity have given the indigenous rural population an effective foundation for action . |
| 41 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 42 | There has been little support from independent black defence organizations and authentic community groups whose actions go far beyond the narrow categories in which antiracism can operate . |
| 43 | Mr Yeltsin and the West have a shared interest in claiming the biggest figure for the aid package , so there has been little dissent over the headline-seizing ‘ $13 billion ’ . |
| 44 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 45 | Apart from the agreements on ozone depletion , which reflected the urgency of the issue , there has been little progress towards global management of global issues . |
| 46 | There has been little progress in reaching agreement on harmonising excise duties , and serious negotiations on this issue are not due to commence until early in 1992 . |
| 47 | There has been little escape from St Valentinism on television , with even two of the dreaded soap operas niftily timing weddings for around now . |
| 48 | There has been little talk of America 's dependence on oil imports — or its missing energy policy . |
| 49 | But in the midst of the holocaust wrought by long-term unemployment on the jobless , there has been little time to examine the effect of the current climate on the working population . |
| 50 | There has been little debate concerning the ‘ what ’ and the ‘ why ’ of deaf education . |
| 51 | Although local authorities and social service departments are in the process of developing systems of assessment in relation to care management , there has been little debate about the principles which ought to underpin assessment processes , nor about the purpose , scope , and content of comprehensive assessment with older people . |
| 52 | While putting sex back into politics , there has been little recognition of how appearance affects the politics of sex . |
| 53 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 54 | A lot of ‘ behind the scenes ’ work has meant there has been little news to report for some months on the A1 Locomotive Trust 's plans to build Peppercorn Pacific No 60163 . |
| 55 | Since then , there has been little news of the orangs , other than that three are still in the research laboratory , and seven are in a cage at Bukit Soeharto . |
| 56 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 57 | Amidst such massive coverage there has been little television interest in what ordinary people get out of sport . |
| 58 | There has been little mention of this aspect so far , but it appears that Customs will be empowered to vary the terms by publishing a notice ; that indicates that it will be quite strictly enforced . |
| 59 | The biggest daily peak comes around 5.00 pm , as homes switch on before industry switches off : There has been little research on the way consumers would respond to the various kinds of incentive that could be built into the electricity price structure . |
| 60 | The fall-off curves away from such centres of consumption imply that the redistribution of such goods was controlled , but there has been little research carried out to determine the patterns of dispersal in any more detail . |