Example sentences of "there [been] [det] [noun] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 6 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 7 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
| 8 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 9 | Have there been any breaches of confidentiality or illegal use of information by search firms you have employed in the past ? |
| 10 | ( 7 ) Have there been any disputes between the seller and the lessor and/or the owners or occupiers of adjoining or neighbouring properties ? |
| 11 | First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note . |
| 12 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 15 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 16 | ‘ Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |