Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second is that Yorkshire finished 1989 four points from the bottom with a one-day record almost as poor ; it seems there has been no improvement , nor is one in sight . |
| 2 | In spite of undoubted social and economic changes there has been no revolution in values . |
| 3 | In all three cases there has been a marked increase in the proportion who favour the more liberal status quo . |
| 4 | In some cases there has been a close relationship between the strength of localism and the tendency towards authoritarian government . |
| 5 | It is nevertheless significant that , however much anti-German growling there has been on Capitol Hill since the invasion of Kuwait , little has been heard within the administration . |
| 6 | One suspects that somewhere along the line of the story 's forming there has been some attempt to draw a veil over the proceedings , and to protect the reputation particularly of the great Moses . |
| 7 | In previous elections there has been little change in the parties ' support between the final Sunday of the campaign and polling day . |
| 8 | Girls THERE has been an important early election result . |
| 9 | Since the mid-1970s there has been growing recognition that residential care can only be effective when it is part of a package aimed at helping the family as a whole , and where parents are involved in all aspects of the care process . |
| 10 | In a number of cases there has been recourse to the courts by parents anxious to secure appropriate provision for their child in the face of local authority opposition . |
| 11 | In the West Midlands there has been some attempt to classify the type of assistance given to each client into advice or support where support means that some action was taken by the advice worker . |
| 12 | As a result of these various pressures there has been a proliferation of community care schemes in the past few years ; schemes to improve on the services already available , to fill gaps , and to provide a less fragmented service to the elderly mentally frail . |
| 13 | In many countries there has been a phased reduction in the lead content of petrol and in the UK , for example , lead-free petrol is on sale at a lower price , at selected petrol stations ( the engine requires a minor adjustment to use it ) and there are indications of a move towards the obligatory use of lead-free petrol for all vehicles . |
| 14 | Because of such concerns there has been considerable opposition to the testing of genetically engineered organisms in the field , as is exemplified by the furore surrounding the release of the so-called ‘ ice minus ’ bacterium . |
| 15 | In the field of housing there has been and is likely to continue to be a major growth in housing associations , particularly after provisions are implemented which will allow council tenants to opt out of council control and into housing associations or tenancy with private landlords . |
| 16 | But this increased local differentiation cuts across party lines , and especially within the Conservative and Labour parties there has been an increasing ideological polarization , which , though denied expression in the tightly controlled atmosphere of Westminster , often surfaces at the local level . |
| 17 | Traditionally in our secondary schools there has been an overemphasis on content . |
| 18 | Reimers said : ‘ In university laboratories there has been a growing concern that desire for proprietary know-how or rights may stifle the open communication of scientists , particularly between scientists who have involvement with different companies ’ . |
| 19 | In the last decade alone there has been something of a holocaust of the scarcest of our earthly resources , natural beauty . |
| 20 | Since he first published his equations there has been a considerable literature developed which is devoted to expanding and refining this algebraic approach , but it was Bukharin who helped lay the foundation for this later work . |
| 21 | A few years ago this was extremely popular , but since the initial boom in feline birth pills there has been a decline in interest in favour of the more drastic method of neutering . |
| 22 | The contextual statements in the introduction are taken from the guide of twelve years ago , with no apparent recognition that in traffic planning terms there has been little short of a revolution in the intervening period . |
| 23 | Any work of art is a complex vibratory system to which our senses and nervous system respond , and any object such as the sacred wooden boards or Tapundas , or the stone Tjinas of the Aborigines , many of which are inscribed with the serpent motif , or any object that has been submitted to human veneration through actions or desires , remains charged with psychic power that can be transmitted or given off in energetic emanations providing there has been no transformation of the original material used in its creation . |
| 24 | Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much . |
| 25 | From a December 1990 price of 240p there has been a handsome gain to 445p . |
| 26 | At the time of writing there has been little feedback from the trial period earlier this year during which forms CT 200 were completed and submitted alongside the usual accounts and computations . |
| 27 | What little new fiction by youngish writers there has been has tended to be incestuous tales of fast-track living in the media boomtown of the Eighties : books sold and written in the Groucho Club bar . |
| 28 | ‘ They are looking fresher and bouncier , and I just sense there has been a lot more energy about them the past 10 days . |
| 29 | ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’ |
| 30 | Laure Genillard said simply , ‘ It 's one of the greatest fairs there has been ’ ; Jane Lingwood , of Frith Street Gallery had also made many sales . |