Example sentences of "there have been several [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 2 | The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth . |
| 3 | There had been several rapes in the London area at around that time and , sure enough , the attacker was waiting , hidden in the alley , for an unsuspecting and defenceless visitor . |
| 4 | With hindsight , there had been several signs of an impending conservative takeover . |
| 5 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 6 | there had been several accidents to conductors swinging along the open-sided cars . |
| 7 | Granada has a £63million stake in BSB and said there had been several approaches for Alan Bond 's major stake in the venture . |
| 8 | Barnard Castle police said there had been several incidents reported at Winston Bridge . |
| 9 | In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases . |
| 10 | A spokesman said there had been several break-ins at town centre premises over the weekend , including at Mowbray Vale Insurance on Galgate when the roof was damaged and cash taken , Stoneleigh residential home , also on Galgate , and the Kings Head Hotel . |
| 11 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 12 | The spot was clearly a favourite one with the crew and there had been several men dozing there when Owen and Mahmoud had appeared . |
| 13 | A spokesman said there had been several raids on homes in the past few days by sneak thieves . |
| 14 | Since then there had been several extensions built , a new accident and emergency unit , and a radiotherapy centre . |
| 15 | There had been several copyings out and rewritings over a number of years , and although the changes made are sometimes evidence of ideological revisionism ( the poet had become more conformist in his later years ) , what is remarkable is how much of the young man 's vision has been allowed to remain intact . |
| 16 | There had been several witnesses . |
| 17 | There have been several instances in the late 1980s of undercover operations leading to the rounding up of soccer hooligan offenders ( Fielding , 1991:218 ) . |
| 18 | There have been several instances of polytechnic or college academic boards adopting a ‘ modular policy ’ which requires specified courses , over time , to move into a common framework of delivery ( usually achieved administratively by common timetabling and academically by convergence of course titles and examination arrangements ) . |
| 19 | Under this rubric there have been several locations which in the 1980s , at least at a particular , symbolic level , have lent a rhetorical credibility to the notion of an urban renaissance in many parts of the First World . |
| 20 | There have been several times when I was tempted to try and get in touch and apologise for my attack at the time of Simon 's death . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And there have been several times when I was tempted to try and get in touch and tell you about Thomas , ’ Ashley said , in a pert rejoinder . |
| 22 | There have been several thefts including some yesterday and last Friday . |
| 23 | In particular , there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations , of which three examples may be given here . |
| 24 | Feeling around the issue runs high : there have been several demonstrations at which protesters have been arrested . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , there have been several incidents in the capital recently . |
| 26 | There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident . |
| 27 | There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident . |
| 28 | As discussed previously , prostaglandins , thromboxanes and their precursor arachidonic acid are critical substances in platelet metabolism ( Samuelsson , 1977 ) , and there have been several studies of the activity of the prostaglandin pathway and thromboxane synthesis in platelets from diabetic subjects . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there have been several studies of patients who cut themselves which are very informative for the clinician ( Clendenin and Murphy 1971 ; Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 30 | Since that time there have been several studies with more modern radiotherapy techniques and fractionation to minimise complications and maximise symptom control for advanced cancers . |