Example sentences of "there have [be] several [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , there have been several ice ages , possibly many .
2 There have been several instances in the late 1980s of undercover operations leading to the rounding up of soccer hooligan offenders ( Fielding , 1991:218 ) .
3 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 ) .
4 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 .
5 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 . ’
6 ‘ 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 .
7 There have been several thefts including some yesterday and last Friday .
8 In particular , there have been several complaints of heavy-handed policing of demonstrations , of which three examples may be given here .
9 Feeling around the issue runs high : there have been several demonstrations at which protesters have been arrested .
10 Nevertheless , there have been several incidents in the capital recently .
11 There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident .
12 There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 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 .
16 All the staff , including senior management are new to the Burger King system so there have been several teething problems .
17 The Salvadorean women 's organizations which support the FDR-FMLN have not yet formed a united front , although there have been several initiatives in that direction and a growing recognition of the need to do so .
18 Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) .
19 There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones .
20 Such models are necessary for the realisation of Wilson 's claim , and there have been several attempts at preliminary formulations by social scientists , archaeologists , population geneticists and from Wilson himself .
21 Since then , there have been several attempts to persuade Government to relax the statutory requirements but these have failed , largely because of opposition from the Inland Revenue and the Treasury .
22 How much of these the foundation will manage to recover is an open question , but at least the collection is now safe ( there have been several attempts in the past to remove its best paintings to other museums ) .
23 In recent year there have been several attempts to produce new kinds of keys .
24 There have been several attempts to build predictive models which describe the relationship between share prices and accounting variables , prominent among which has been the price — earnings ratio .
25 There have been several changes in both areas since then . )
26 There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries .
27 There have been several cases in the last few years in which police and Immigration Officers have raided factories and taken workers away .
28 Indeed there have been several cases in the press recently of 10- or 11-year-olds being so severely beaten for under-achievement at school that they died .
29 There have been several cases in the past where it appeared people were acting out violent scenes from films .
30 That is true of some uncontroversial matters , but recently there have been several Bills of this kind , such as the one after the Hungerford massacre — that was rushed through the House and not dealt with properly — the council tax Bill — that was rushed through the House and is a mess — and the Dangerous Dogs Bill that was also rushed through all its stages .
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