Example sentences of "[verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 There would appear to be some untold facts about Blea Moor Tunnel as there has been much speculation but very little facts of details .
32 There has been much speculation since the introduction of s.62 of the FSA 1986 concerning the potency of the provision as a statutory civil law remedy for insider dealing .
33 There has been much speculation whether this proportion is likely to grow substantially in industrial societies .
34 In describing the framework , we have not focused on the types of individuals who might be most productive and , probably at the same time , most comfortable in each quadrant , although there has been much speculation about this in our discussions with managers and researchers .
35 Concerning this there has been much speculation .
36 Pursuant to the reply that the Minister gave earlier to the hon. Member for Ross , Cromarty and Skye ( Mr. Kennedy ) , and as there has been much speculation that there will be no GATT settlement at all this year , will the Minister confirm that , should there be no GATT settlement , he will oppose the MacSharry proposals for the rest of this year ?
37 While there has been much speculation as to the cause of these phenomena , the corpus of relevant empirical research remains small .
38 ‘ There has been much concern in the town that the post office counter business is to be sold , ’ said Delyn MP David Hanson .
39 Which expands on the Tashi character from The Color Purple in her tale of female circumcision , of which there has been much coverage .
40 There has been much disagreement among palaeontologists whether this indicated hunting or scavenging , but Ruby told us that she and her kind stayed as far as possible away from these large animals , for the freshly expired bodies were invariably surrounded by hyenas and big cats .
41 There has been much anxiety about the role of local government in the last twenty years .
42 As for the great merchants , there has been much argument among modern historians about how they were recruited .
43 There has been much argument as to whether the former test is more stringent .
44 To a greater extent than with other mathematically-based research tools there has been much difference of opinion as to its relevance and utility .
45 There has been much debate about this question of the unit of natural selection .
46 There has been much debate recently regarding the quality of meat used in pre-cooked meals , convenience foods and in the fast service restaurant industry .
47 For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors .
48 As we shall see , there has been much debate about whether unemployment can be reduced permanently by following policies which increase aggregate demand and in so doing raise the rate of inflation .
49 There has been much debate about whether increases in costs can be inflationary without an accompanying increase in the money supply .
50 There has been much debate about how much such rules and procedures should be used : too much , and the organisation becomes immobilised in bureaucratic red tape ; too little , and the organisation descends into anarchic chaos .
51 Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession .
52 Over the years there has been much debate as to whether or not this state of affairs is really acceptable even given the fact that these industries are highly independent bodies .
53 In recent years , there has been much debate about the role of the C. and A.G. The office is an old and distinguished one .
54 There has been much debate on the imbalance in food and drink .
55 There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law .
56 There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) .
57 There has been much debate about the effect on the local economy , the health of local residents , and the environment .
58 Mr Lamont said : ‘ There has been much debate about Britain 's experience with the ERM .
59 Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something .
60 THERE has been much comment in Blackpool about the way John Smith claps his hands , elbows out from his side so that his arms form a bar across his chest , hands thundering into each other with short , sharp smacks .
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