Example sentences of "there [vb -s] [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Mr Yeltsin and the West have a shared interest in claiming the biggest figure for the aid package , so there has been little dissent over the headline-seizing ‘ $13 billion ’ . |
| 32 | If the pulsar is a rejuvenated old neutron star , the large magnetic field suggests that there has been little or no decay from its original value , lending support to work suggesting the field decay may not occur , in contrast to other evidence . |
| 33 | As yet there has been little research considering early retirement among women and its social meaning and impact . |
| 34 | But despite some concessions made to access considerations , there has been little evidence that he will change his mind . |
| 35 | With the popularity of the Foundry in Sheffield and other leading walls at Huddersfield and York , there has been little new activity in Yorkshire . |
| 36 | Since then , there has been little news of the orangs , other than that three are still in the research laboratory , and seven are in a cage at Bukit Soeharto . |
| 37 | There has been little attempt to create projects to promote women 's development and even less understanding of the issues involved . |
| 38 | There has been little sociological work on this topic but there has been a good deal of interesting history , much of it carried out under the aegis of the North East Labour History Society . |
| 39 | Even though various initiatives have been undertaken by way of the provision of guidance , there has been little knowledge of the actual practices employed within the nontrading segments of the public sector . |
| 40 | There has been little support from independent black defence organizations and authentic community groups whose actions go far beyond the narrow categories in which antiracism can operate . |
| 41 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 42 | But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation . |
| 43 | There has been little discussion , however , about what this ‘ tragedy ’ might be or mean . |
| 44 | There has been little debate concerning the ‘ what ’ and the ‘ why ’ of deaf education . |
| 45 | However , although the Education Act 1981 shifted the emphasis in education from handicap to special educational need , based on assessment of curriculum requirement rather than on the child 's disability , there has been little progress in the integration of the handicapped in education . |
| 46 | If there has been little precise guidance to team members about the professional relationships and operational procedures to be followed , so , equally , there has been little guidance about their relationship to the rest of the service system . |
| 47 | If there has been little precise guidance to team members about the professional relationships and operational procedures to be followed , so , equally , there has been little guidance about their relationship to the rest of the service system . |
| 48 | For younger mothers it usually comes as a surprise , an unintended consequence of a past or current sexual relationship , and an event for which there has been little planning or preparation . |
| 49 | For decades , there has been little choice within the UK credit within the UK credit insurance market . |
| 50 | While attention has been paid to the modification of adjudicative procedures to meet the requirements of a particular area , there has been little thought directed to the broader question of whether adjudication is the correct decision-making process on which to be fashioning procedures . |
| 51 | If there has been little theoretical change , or if they are works of art in their own right — and especially if they are decorative — then illustrations can have a useful life much longer than the text which accompanied them . |
| 52 | Apart from the agreements on ozone depletion , which reflected the urgency of the issue , there has been little progress towards global management of global issues . |
| 53 | Note that bass notes are mostly dissonant with the melody , and that there has been little attempt to remove note-relationships which conventionally would be regarded as crude and unmusical . |
| 54 | Although local authorities and social service departments are in the process of developing systems of assessment in relation to care management , there has been little debate about the principles which ought to underpin assessment processes , nor about the purpose , scope , and content of comprehensive assessment with older people . |
| 55 | The concept of risk has been recognized as important in so far as older people have been defined as dependent or vulnerable ( Stevenson , 1989 ) but there has been little systematic analysis of risk , risk-tolerance and risk-management in relation to older people ( for a discussion of issues , see Norman , 1979 ) . |
| 56 | There has been little research in most of the United Kingdom into the relative effects of social class on achievement under the tripartite and comprehensive systems . |
| 57 | There has been little pattern in the movements of the 23,000 miners who were ‘ relocated ’ from mines throughout the country . |
| 58 | Does the Secretary of State agree that until now , there has been little to encourage the new democracies of central and eastern Europe to change their minds about the EC being a rich man 's club ? |
| 59 | There has been little change in the combined market share of the six national brewers owning more than 2,000 pubs since February 1989 . |
| 60 | There has been little research to evaluate IT and IS and how they effect the top levels of organisations . |