Example sentences of "have there [be] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family .
2 Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ?
3 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
4 At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased .
5 Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments .
6 Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade .
7 Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ?
8 With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ?
9 In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ?
10 Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone .
11 Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers .
12 At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over .
13 Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all .
14 First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note .
15 Had there been any trouble . ’
16 Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order .
17 Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’
18 Had there been another voice ?
19 Had there been another reason ?
20 It did not occur to him to look for a seat outside Worcestershire , and even if it had there was little reason why he should have secured one .
21 After a moment she added , in an offhand tone , ‘ By the way , have there been any phone calls this week when I 've been out ? ’
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