Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] considerable [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In recent years , there has been considerable private sector intervention in secondary level education and vocational and technical training , mainly by the large mining companies . |
| 2 | For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense . |
| 3 | Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ . |
| 4 | There has been considerable public concern about reduced hypoglycaemia awareness in patients taking human insulin . |
| 5 | Yet as we shall see in chapters 4 and 5 , there has been considerable theoretical work ( e. g. by Finsinger and Vogelsang , 1981 ) on socially efficient bonus structures , relating pay to social surplus created . |
| 6 | Whilst there has been considerable theoretical work in the area , there has been little empirical study of either state , or colleague control of professional practice . |
| 7 | In addition there has been considerable cultural experimentation , with the result that what is considered desirable in some places is not in others , where its consumption may indeed be taboo . |
| 8 | Although there had been considerable Russian settlement in Asia before the railway age , it was not until the building of the Central Asian and Trans-Siberian lines that settlement , and with it the exploitation of minerals and other natural resources , really took off . |