Example sentences of "there [be] [det] " in BNC.

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1 Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family .
2 Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ?
3 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
4 Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment .
5 ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’
6 Not only have there been many important exhibitions held on these issues but many women artists have developed brave and challenging work .
7 Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ?
8 Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people .
9 Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’
10 Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana .
11 Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building .
12 ‘ Never has there been such a farce ’
13 Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ?
14 Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ?
15 First : why have there been such strong fluctuations in fertility in the last half-century , and are they likely to continue ?
16 Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ?
17 Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen .
18 Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it .
19 But Coun Wigley said he was in contact with a lot of local people and had there been such an incident he would have heard .
20 Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers .
21 Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman .
22 Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all .
23 Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game .
24 Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ?
25 ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded .
26 At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over .
27 Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments .
28 Nor had there been any to the east of the water .
29 Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone .
30 A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it .
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