Example sentences of "have [been] complaints " in BNC.

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1 There have been complaints in all the affected towns : about the lost jobs , the hardship to students and the old , the economic and environmental effects .
2 There have been complaints about the lack of independence of appeal committees ( the majority of whose members are appointed by the LEA ) and of legal deficiencies in the way that appeals are heard .
3 For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form .
4 In Bristol there have been complaints that the hit squad are ‘ out of touch ’ after several insensitive hits that were not entirely well-meaning .
5 For several years there have been complaints from Bramshott residents about flooding , erosion of banks and the neglected state of the path .
6 Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised .
7 There have been complaints that central departments are inefficient because they are overburdened ; the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service urged the ‘ hiving-off ’ of units dealing with routine administration which were little concerned with major policy issues .
8 I understand that there have been complaints about the lack of announcements of future events in the Journal and elsewhere .
9 There have been complaints about the cost of holidays at .
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