Example sentences of "been [art] [noun] [conj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have always been the eccentrics and academics who have travelled the East only to return home to announce great spiritual discoveries . |
| 2 | It may also have been the case that magistrates were less willing to overturn the appeals of disappointed claimants , since they were well enough aware that the increasing burden of relief was being thrown on to a decreasing number of shoulders as the proportion of the village populations either needing assistance or at least no longer able to pay poor rates increased . |
| 3 | One aspect that has been somewhat modified by further curriculum development projects , has been the implication that pupils were not receptive to certain ways of thinking until certain stages in their development . |
| 4 | A more significant objection has been the charge that leys involve marker sites that vary tremendously in age . |
| 5 | One area which has proved very popular have been the walks and activities for children and young people with disabilities . |
| 6 | Built into most policy development over the past four decades , even anti-sexist and anti-racist initiatives , has been the assumption that girls and black pupils are ‘ problems ’ ; that they either have problems or pose problems that are different from other groups of pupils . |
| 7 | To return to the source of good , evil and neutral ; whatever , in the conflicts referred to , may have been the intentions or hopes of the protagonists , the fact remains that over the centuries they have produced a constant flow of individual human decisions which can be examined and specified as either good , evil or neutral . |
| 8 | A major problem for climatologists has been the fact that temperatures in the southern hemisphere have risen more than in the northern hemisphere . |
| 9 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 10 | And to say that they have ‘ been the eyes and ears of Delhi ’ is insulting to a community that has contributed enormously to the progress and fostering of secular values among Kashmiri people . |
| 11 | Her Sacred Majesty , being by nature full of mercy and clemency , who is most inclinable to such pitiful complaints and will not endure to hear such tragedies made of her people and poor subjects , as some about her may insinuate , then she perhaps for very compassion of such calamities will not only stop the stream of such violence and return to her wonted mildness , but also con them little thanks which have been the authors and counsellors of such bloody platforms . |
| 12 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 13 | One of the major reasons , however , for the interest in resource-based learning has been the recognition that children must learn , during the course of their schooling , to be increasingly self-sufficient in learning , to become the " independent autonomous learners " most fitted to survive in a society undergoing constant change , and in the context of the knowledge explosion . |
| 14 | After Polhill 's release the US government thanked Syria for its efforts , but insisted that there had been no deals or negotiations with the kidnappers . |
| 15 | There have been no contracts or arrangements with the Company or any subsidiary at any time during the financial year , or between 31 December 1992 and 30 March 1993 , in which a Director of the Company was materially interested and which was significant in relation to the Company 's business . |
| 16 | ‘ She was very happy at home — there had been no arguments or rows and she was her usual happy self when she went out , ’ said Robert . |
| 17 | The currency convertability restrictions threaten to wipe out the country 's domestic base of small resellers unless suppliers opt to extend credit facilities further , but to date there has been no indication that suppliers are prepared to take such steps . |
| 18 | There have been no sightings or reports of a third person involved . |
| 19 | It should not have been a surprise that companies sought to use that range of permissible techniques to present their results in the best light . |
| 20 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 21 | Drink has always been a problem since men discovered how to distil and it is known that there were a great many small stills on the island . |
| 22 | The supply of metal may not have been a problem if supplies of scrap were plentiful and if there was a continuous re-cycling of the raw materials . |
| 23 | The headings that I tabulate in this way ( but you may like to include others ) are as follows : identity ; outstanding mortgages ; restrictive covenants ; covenants for production ; land charge searches ; registrations with freeholders ( for sales of leaseholds ) ; endorse memorandum ( when there 's been a probate or letters of administration , or a sale of a part only of the land comprised in a prior conveyance ) ; and stamping of documents . |
| 24 | I think that one important strand in the rejection of feminism by many women has been a feeling that feminists are saying that their lives have been of no value , and that their activities and concerns have been trivial . |
| 25 | There must have been a time before Fenna , just as there must have been a time before words , but Maggie can not not conceive of either . |
| 26 | Underlying Mr Singh 's campaign has been an implication that boys receiving awards and honours have not really been deserving of them . |
| 27 | In the past there has been an assumption that pupils ' attainment will dip as a result of transfer and a settling period will be needed . |
| 28 | The initial reaction had been an assumption that shares would fall on the back of the changes in Advanced Corporation Tax and tax credits on dividends which , to put it simplistically , will suck £1 billion out of Britain 's pension funds , the largest providers of equity for industry . |