Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There have been important studies of aspects of modern cities , but in my view there has been no recent study of a significant part of a great industrial city considered as a whole .
2 But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation .
3 However , as there has been no simultaneous monitoring of incidence , it is extremely difficult to determine the effects of these expensive actions to human health and wellbeing .
4 Rosenthal , who is keen to move back to the continent , has also been touted in France although as yet there has been no definite interest .
5 Dr Marsh said : ‘ There has been no radical change to our financial situation since the Annual General Meeting in August , apart from the income that has been generated through the gates .
6 There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture .
7 There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition .
8 there has been no adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Business ;
9 What is more , there has been no other deposit quite like it either before or since , except perhaps some Miocene chalks which themselves are remarkably widespread : in the western approaches to the English Channel , in Malta , Cyprus and the Middle East and all the way to New Zealand .
10 There has been no other business items and the same for there 's been no questions either .
11 As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison .
12 There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls .
13 But this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3–0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
14 A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent .
15 There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent .
16 For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors .
17 There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage .
18 However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general .
19 To the best of my knowledge , there has been no such request by British Rail .
20 State if there has been no such contract .
21 For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt .
22 There has been no such rethink for the changes planned in civil legal aid in court , which was granted in more than 23,000 cases in 1991/92 .
23 Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small .
24 It was done by Sadlers Wells in the late forties , but there has been no new production until this recent one in the opera .
25 Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening .
26 There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates .
27 There has been no serious conflict about the designation of land for particular uses .
28 Despite the changing circumstances within which the press now operates and much evidence with which to discredit its own claims to legitimacy as ‘ the fourth estate ’ , there has been no serious attempt to reconsider the theories of the press and the media generally as they relate to the remaining decade of this century .
29 There has been no serious study of the persistence of Indian beliefs about the origins of diseases or supernatural cures since a study in 1957 , but they are still current among the older generation at least .
30 There has been no serious study made of the overall sociological , economic and political situation of German youth during the Third Reich , and the present investigation is designed to fill an important gap in the historiography of National Socialism in general , and in the social history of Nazi Germany in particular .
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