Example sentences of "there [vb base] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm In that sense , whereas of course in the case of primary schools there 've been fewer resources but of course far fewer students . |
| 2 | It means there 've been more cries for help . |
| 3 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 4 | The graphs indicate that on these measures there have been substantial changes over the post-war period . |
| 5 | We know that in most regions there have been frequent changes of climate in the geologically immediate past . |
| 6 | Since we started there have been five escapes for which we accept responsibility . |
| 7 | In the Somerset Levels there have been great changes since the Roman period ( Fig.48 ) . |
| 8 | The implementation of reform and change have , according to Sir Thomas , been significant but he admits there have been great difficulties over the years getting the PR message over . |
| 9 | In all these countries there have been major debates about what policy to adopt in order to restrict the arrival of such people . |
| 10 | There must be hundreds of females and males out there too frightened to speak out in case they lose their jobs , because let's not forget there have been many cases in which males have been harassed or are being ha harassed . |
| 11 | Erm well why would you er get engaged in a , a contest erm with er the three warring factions , because you certainly would n't be able to con confine yourself to one , and since there 's no national interest as such , I know there have been many attempts to link er Bosnia with er peace in the world generally or with world order , in fact there is no threat er this is a civil war , strictly speaking , and th there 's no evidence that it would er sp spill over into a major war unless it was made a major war er by those er with the er forces that exist . |
| 12 | There have been many attacks on our society the trade used by taking our finances and yet , by their economic mistakes and profitization , we , the ordinary working people , pick up the bill . |
| 13 | By contrast , in the growth sectors of manufacturing and services within the non-metropolitan regions there have been strong tendencies of concentration in the main settlements . |
| 14 | ‘ I seem to remember there have been two attempts , one at John F. Kennedy , the other at Heathrow to smuggle bombs aboard planes . |
| 15 | In these appeals we have only been concerned with the obligation to give the contemnor this written record , but in most of the reported cases there have been other breaches of procedures in addition to a breach of this nature . |
| 16 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 17 | 8–12 There have been extensive improvements going on in Jura during the last two years . |
| 18 | Sinn Fein councillor Vincent Kelly claimed there have been several attempts to pressurise Mr Fox into working for British Intelligence . |
| 19 | He says there have been several instances in one council department where employees who are members of the Labour Party have been given temporary promotion . |
| 20 | Around the country there have been isolated examples of operations going wrong perhaps because surgeons have not had good enough training . |
| 21 | Accordingly , an assembly such as this in England — and let me remind you there have been earlier ones , at Sheffield and Keele — is an act of homage to a great and greatly maligned poet ; but it is also , and can not help but be , a patriotic demonstration against ‘ suffocating insular coziness ’ . |
| 22 | Though ESA admits there have been electronic problems with one of the system 's processors , it 's hardly surprising . |
| 23 | Since the Pan Am bombing there have been different security standards imposed on American-owned airlines depending on whether their flights are going to or from America . |
| 24 | Despite these technological advances there have been few developments in the method of communicating with the computer , which remains keyboard-based . |
| 25 | In the Grampian and Northern areas there have been big increases in both murder and attempted murder . |
| 26 | Application there have been three meetings er those meetings those . |
| 27 | Since 1968–70 there have been more strikes than in the fifties and sixties , and more of them have been unofficial . |
| 28 | ‘ I should n't think there have been any shortage of women in your life who would have been delighted to make a home for you anywhere in the world ! ’ she told him waspishly , disliking the way he was making her feel a little sorry for him . |
| 29 | Ever since I can remember there have been little stickers of white paper all over the house with neat black-biro writing on them . |
| 30 | For plants there have been numerous papers on the relationship between growth indicators such as dry weight or leaf area and time . |