Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There has been a political revolution in Paddock Wood in Kent , though it has got marginally less press coverage than the fall of the Berlin Wall or the failed Russian coup . |
| 32 | Thankfully , no , there has been some progress . |
| 33 | Your German Shepherd feels insecure away from familiar territory and his aggression is a defence mechanism — a typical syndrome of long-term kennelling , where there has been little socialisation . |
| 34 | Until now , there has been a choice between high speed ( 22GHz ) together with high dissipation ( >0.5W per flip-flop ) or medium speed ( 9–12GHz ) with medium dissipation ( <180mW ) . |
| 35 | Nearly ten years after Belsey 's book appeared , there has been no revolution in the first sense , and it does not look as if there will be . |
| 36 | There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) . |
| 37 | Since then there has been a marked divergence between school and university ; students have become less well equipped , and academics , particularly young ones , have become more high-powered , ambitious , and professionalised . |
| 38 | But since 1987 there has been added impetus to the development of the Taurus programme , triggered largely by the post-Big Bang boom in share dealing and the subsequent crash in 1987 . |
| 39 | There has been intense interest in the British life insurance sector by Australian , New Zealand and Continental interests for some time . |
| 40 | Across China there has been a ritualistic cleansing to erase the symbols of the student movement . |
| 41 | Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest . |
| 42 | Roger Henderson , QC , the Bar 's public affairs spokesman , warned that the words used in the White Paper were open to different interpretations , but said : ‘ Lord Donaldson has plainly interpreted the White Paper on the basis that there has been a major change from the Green Paper . ’ |
| 43 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |
| 44 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 45 | There has been an influx of women into the party , accompanied by a decision to have equal representation at all levels of the party by the mid-1990s . |
| 46 | There has been a noticeable shift of working class support from the SPD to the far-right Republicans — not as much as the losses from the Christian Democrats , but enough to worry party managers . |
| 47 | Cardinal Johannes Willebrands , head of the Vatican Secretariat for Christian Unity , said : ‘ There has been real ecclesial community . |
| 48 | There has been criticism of the group 's wheeling and dealing which came to a head with the surprise sale of the William Hill / Mecca betting shops chain to Brent Walker . |
| 49 | In the insurance market , there has been an upsurge in activity . |
| 50 | Michael Joseph says there has been no breach : ‘ The Sunday Times 's promotion is theirs , not ours . ’ |
| 51 | The first round of the English Schools ' Football Association Under-15 competition is now complete , and there has been some spectacular scoring . |
| 52 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 53 | Knighton told the Manchester Evening News : ‘ There has been a whole lot of speculation and a lot of misinformation . |
| 54 | There has been a flurry of colourful rumours over the sale of Irises in the past ten days . |
| 55 | Sales last month , at 171,730 , were 10 per cent down on September 1988 — the first time there has been a month on month decline since April 1987 , according to the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders . |
| 56 | There has been nothing remotely resembling intellectual coherence . |
| 57 | But it is unjust that the individual 's right of access to the courts should be restricted solely on the ground that there has been delay in making the application . |
| 58 | Families where there has been a murder find that people are more reluctant to talk to them than if they had suffered an ordinary bereavement — sometimes even crossing the street to avoid them . |
| 59 | If there has been a diminution in the voltage , however , there are compensating pleasures of wit . |
| 60 | But after the publicity on unleaded fuel there has been increased interest in used diesel power . |