Example sentences of "there [verb] been [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that is neither the history nor the practice of our professional system , not just er for accountants but for the legal system as well and I think it has stood the test of time , er he will know that there has been er there is a procedure for the joint disciplinaries scheme er which enables the er institute to investigate whether there has been compliance by member firms with the standards promulgated er with er er by the er er auditing practices board and that seems to me to be the er right way forward . |
| 2 | If there was actual combustion of the damaged goods , however caused , there has been damage by fire . |
| 3 | Dicta referred to above suggest that a court is entitled , indeed , obliged to be satisfied that there has been enactment by the monarch with the advice and consent of Lords and Commons ( except in the case of the Parliament Act procedure dealt with above , pp.98–9 ) . |
| 4 | gives two examples in order to show that theft may be committed , although the ( so-called ) appropriation is made by the offender with the consent of the owner , ( 1 ) in the case of robbery and ( 2 ) where there has been larceny by a trick . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal has taken the matter a step further in Shomer v B&R Residential Lettings Ltd [ 1992 ] 453 Industrial Relations Legal Information Bulletin 2 , by holding that in making the comparison with a hypothetical sick man , all relevant circumstances must be taken into account so that where , as in this case , there had been misconduct by the pregnant woman , the correct comparison was with a sick man who had also been guilty of misconduct . |
| 6 | There had been visits by the Royal couple to several foreign countries also , including Communist countries at a time when there existed grave doubts about relationships with those countries . |
| 7 | Mr Griffiths also claimed there had been interference by the DTI as far back as December , when it pre-empted the OFT by giving the bid the all-clear at an early stage in the proceedings . |
| 8 | In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields . |
| 9 | There had been invasions by descendants of the deposed Stuarts in 1715 and in 1745 and , though neither had been successful , both of them had been rather alarming . |
| 10 | I have agreed with the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North that there have been criticisms by the Scottish Consumer Council as to information about bus services . |
| 11 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 13 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 14 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 15 | We have seen that since the Second World War , there have been attempts by structuralists and Marxists to make English more ‘ objective ’ : attempts which , I would suggest , have not been particularly successful in penetrating the teaching of English in higher education . |
| 16 | I 'm concerned because there have been accusations by Mix M Mr , he 's actually erased from the register . |
| 17 | From the very earliest days of Hollywood there have been reviews by part-time critics and intellectuals praising particular films for breaking away from the usual formulas . |
| 18 | In Austria there have been sales by the holding company for state companies , Obesterreichissche Industrien , and in Sweden also . |
| 19 | There 's been criticism by some Euro-sceptics . |