Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been speculation among local climbers that the individuals responsible for the chipping of Hareless Heart are also to blame on this occasion ; a theory backed up by the likelihood that the vandals had some level of climbing expertise . |
| 2 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 3 | There has been work on imperfect monitoring in reputational models , Benabou and Laroque ( 1988 ) , Fudenberg and Levine ( 1988 , 1989 ) ; and there has also been work on models with a continuum of types , Milgrom and Roberts ( 1982 ) . |
| 4 | It would be very wise if the Left advocated the policy of land-value taxation , which has been part of Liberal policy this century . |
| 5 | In such intimate matters , one would expect that the feelings of the old person about their body and the extent to which ‘ family frankness ’ has been part of earlier experience would also play a part . |
| 6 | Less publicised , but equally significant has been evidence of corrupt practices in police forces outside of London . |
| 7 | The result has been fragmentation in political life . |
| 8 | Having listened with interest to the Minister 's statement on renewable energy and the fact that there has been reference to other sources of power , when shall we have a comprehensive statement on energy policy from the Government ? |
| 9 | As with numerous other mill sites , it has waxed and waned in importance , and over the centuries has been home to many individuals and industries . |
| 10 | has been Head of Christian Aid 's Latin America/Caribbean Group for the last seven years . |
| 11 | Nonetheless , in both companies there has been scope for local initiative on the margin of national agreements , and at times in violation of them . |
| 12 | It is not accidental that the assertion of ‘ the rights of man ’ has been characteristic of revolutionary regimes which aspired to interfere with and overturn the systems of law and society of their neighbours ; and there could be no more striking evidence of the antagonism of Soviet Russia to Trotskyism than that ‘ human rights ’ have to be forced down its throat at Helsinki or Belgrade like spoonfuls of brimstone . |
| 13 | A second trend has been abolition of withholding taxes in countries such as the US , Germany and ( for non-residents ) France and Spain . |
| 14 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 15 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 16 | Herbivores are , of course , also affected by the carnivory regime , weather , and other physical features , but , in the groups of plants that have survived the animal onslaught , there has been evolution of defensive features , both physical and chemical . |
| 17 | Jordan , Europe 's number one toothbrush manufacturer , has been expert in dental hygiene for over 100 years . |
| 18 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 19 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 20 | There has been interest in these questions from time to time in the past , in particular in Britain between the end of World War Two and the early 1960s . |
| 21 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |
| 22 | A smaller amount was to go to the theological college which I had attended and which has been host to many students from Africa . ) |
| 23 | Over the years Reid 's has been host to many people , and its visitors , book reads like an international Who 's Who over the past century . |
| 24 | Even during my brief tenure at the Dispatch Box , the Secretary of State has been party to several actions to which parliamentarians and democrats should not be party . |
| 25 | Mr Nick Bassett , aged 29 , has been manager of Northern Goldsmiths , in Blackwellgate , for the last two and a half years . |
| 26 | There has been reluctance in western Europe , up to now , to support the Anglo-American position in the Gulf . |
| 27 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 28 | Although there has been consultation throughout all stages of the programme 's development , the team in Glasgow , which includes Elaine Wardrope , Ernst & Young 's marketing manager in Scotland , as well as Lockett , has run the programme day-to-day and dealt with the detailed implementation of the programme . |
| 29 | It may not have been love at first sight — winged ears and gangly legs have limited appeal — but their relationship was meant to be |
| 30 | As Hannah moves fluently along her journey into the past , what emerges most strongly to the listener is a sense of privilege — that here is a survivor of a lost way of life which was so innocent and simple , so materially deprived , yet spiritually rich , that it might have been part of another civilization altogether , surviving from an earlier century , perhaps . |