Example sentences of "been [noun] about " in BNC.

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1 That , at least is the assumption , but there have been disagreements about how well it works .
2 The result of this unique situation has been that , although there have been disagreements about which specific reactor type should be built , governments of both main political parties have nearly always accepted the UKAEA 's general pro-nuclear arguments .
3 There have been doubts about the bank 's central aim of fostering the entrepreneurial spirit in countries that for the past 40 years , or longer , have been dominated by communism .
4 While the PRE has halted Mozambique 's rapid economic decline since the early 1980s , there have been doubts about how appropriate its policies are for a country still at war .
5 There had been doubts about which would break first , Christmas or booksellers ' spirits .
6 Many explanations are possible , but there may again have been doubts about the accuracy of the text , sufficient to halt work temporarily .
7 Right from the introduction of the smoking habit to Europe , there have been doubts about the effect on health ; only since the 1920s has evidence been gathered in any purposeful way .
8 In support of this they indicate that there have been worries about the ability of the Monopolies Commission to maintain consistency across its investigations .
9 ‘ Since I left , there has been talk about my going back to Celtic , but that will never happen . ’
10 There has also been talk about a return to England for Hughes ( pictured above ) , who left Manchester City to join Strasbourg a year ago .
11 There had been gossip about Bates and Suzannah , who has also written in The Guardian and Chelsea match programmes .
12 There had been rumblings about a riot , but Nicholson had received the warnings with little fear .
13 Over the five days of the championship there have been rumblings about the ice and the stones .
14 But there have never been writings about him .
15 There has been conflict about access from the Meadowell through this development to Percy Main and , remarkably , the Labour-controlled authority have agreed to this being blocked off .
16 Well there 's been speculation about that , but no nobody can actually tell us how it began but it 's it 's easy enough to imagine how it began , I think .
17 The North Korean leader Kim Il-sung is 80 years old , and there has been speculation about his health .
18 He says there 've been stories about a buyer but it has n't happened yet .
19 Furthermore , ‘ there have been questions about his loyalty ’ , for Alderson has had the temerity to caution the service about an apparent drift towards paramilitarism .
20 There had been fears about his position after he met namesake Albert Reynolds , the Eire Premier , a few weeks ago .
21 This year there have been publications about both .
22 Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ?
23 According to Alain Collery of Champagne Collery in Aÿ , there has been concern about the cadmium content in the soil from batteries which are also minced up along with other refuse in the boues de ville .
24 Because we are more dependent and more vulnerable in later years , there has rightly been concern about what may be termed ‘ old age abuse ’ and the subject merits some detailed discussion here .
25 There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's .
26 Cadmium can damage the kidneys , and there has been concern about levels of cadmium in the livers and kidneys of elks and deer in southern Sweden which have grazed on plants that have accumulated cadmium .
27 There has been concern about and criticism of the manner in which public consultation has been undertaken .
28 While the Three Pillars have stood the test of time , there has always been controversy about their relative importance , and hence about the allocation of resources between them .
29 There have also been mutterings about the lack of liaison with Ministers .
30 There have been mutterings about the fact that Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , lives outside the constituency in Newton Aycliffe .
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