Example sentences of "[coord] there have [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oxygen itself has been present in significant amounts in the atmosphere for only about two and a half billion years — just over half the total life of our planet ; and there had already been a billion years of evolution before that . |
| 2 | The bungalow showed no sign of life , and there had not been any when they had driven past on the road . |
| 3 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 4 | Earlier some engineers had derided this side of the business as mere ‘ ironmongery ’ , and there had also been political constraints on development . |
| 5 | Two weeks ago , a television was thrown out of the flat window and there had also been fights . |
| 6 | And there had even been an abortive project for a Council . |
| 7 | And there had n't been a serious offer for the property in the last twelve months . |
| 8 | He had never found a suitable gift , and there had n't been an Easter that year , the only gift many families had received had been blood and fire . |
| 9 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 10 | There was only a year between their ages and there had always been a close bond between them . |
| 11 | He admitted the party and individual MPs received a total of nearly £38,000 , but insisted it was all legal and there had never been any attempt to favour the pachinko industry in parliament . |
| 12 | The County Council dismissed the charges , saying both the Corporation and the IIRS were making routine checks on Raybestos Manhattan 's waste and there had never been evidence of asbestos in the consignments that had been checked . |
| 13 | Until she was sixteen they had been constantly moving and there had never been anyone left behind to pass on her address . |
| 14 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
| 15 | As a result , overall our sales were down , roughly in line with our competitors in the oil service industry , but there was continuing pressure on margins and profitability and there had obviously been some build-up on the international side in anticipation of higher sales . |
| 16 | There was a ha-ha , and there had once been a maze : garden features which one might take to represent the outside and inside views of B.P. as an institution ! |
| 17 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 18 | He had seemed certain to become the first black Tory MP , representing Cheltenham — Norman Tebbit had tipped him as the first black cabinet minister and there 'd even been the odd hint that he might one day inhabit No 10 . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've always felt in the past that if anyone had a problem , they could always come to me and talk about it , and there have n't been many problems that we have n't been able to solve that way . ’ |
| 20 | " No , and there have n't been for some time . " |
| 21 | He says if it was Satanic there would be signs of a ritual and there have n't been any . |
| 22 | Only five naked-eye novæ have appeared during the last twenty years , and there have not been many more within binocular range . |
| 23 | There is a growing recognition that an effective response to crime and crime prevention must reach beyond the conventional boundaries of the criminal justice system , and there have already been a number of practical initiatives which either attempt to draw upon the wider resources of the community , or which rely upon what is usually known at the ‘ inter-agency ’ or ‘ multi-agency ’ approach . |
| 24 | The Library 's budget is very tight this year , and there have already been questions over whether the Library should be carrying the cost of the large number of pesticide-related publications we currently take . |
| 25 | Socata 's parent company Aerospatiale is responsible for the cockpit architecture of the Airbus line , and there have clearly been transfers of technology between Toulouse and Tarbes , the result being that the TBM 700 needs to be flown like some kind of ! 320 . |
| 26 | The artificial chicane produced by this arrangement produces speed reductions of 20–30 km/h and there have also been reductions in traffic densities and noise levels . |
| 27 | You yourself provided detailed pointers to the inner workings of ‘ The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors , Even ’ , in ‘ The Green Box ’ , which is a sort of instruction manual , and there have also been numerous commentaries by critics . |
| 28 | The government has said it is willing to revise its policy on " Remote Area Dwellers " ( Bushmen and others ) , and there have also been two recent official gatherings to discuss such issues , in Namibia and in Botswana . |
| 29 | There is no doubt tremendous strides have been made in certain sections of the North 's economy but that progress has been partial and there have also been many setbacks . |
| 30 | ‘ And there have never been any pressures . ’ |