Example sentences of "[adj] [ex0] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 .
2 Since Normanton ( 1971 ) wrote this there have been important moves to improve the information provided by local authorities , though Tomkins ( 1977 ) points out that the standards of reports vary , some being elaborate while others are simply extracts from the accounts .
3 Despite this there have been long-standing assumptions that management is the same as administration .
4 Concerning this there has been much speculation .
5 In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 .
6 Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries .
7 I 'm afraid there 's been some sort of coup mounted .
8 Since it was signed on January 29th there have been two massacres , with a total of at least 30 people killed .
9 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
10 Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state .
11 In 1920 there had been six London evenings .
12 In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France .
13 In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade .
14 Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors .
15 Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases .
16 And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country .
17 In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music .
18 So far , however , the crofters in the Western Isles have preferred to purchase only the house sites and pass on their rights to their families , although in other areas where the land is better there has been greater interest in purchasing whole crofts .
19 In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways .
20 Since 1976 there has been great erosion of respect for local government .
21 Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) .
22 In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer .
23 Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this .
24 To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power .
25 In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media .
26 Bar-tailed Godwits are very rare inland in Sussex , but since 1966 there have been six reports of birds inland on spring migration between 12 April and 3 May , usually in small parties , but 200 together flew north over Arlington Reservoir on 3 May 1971 .
27 Since 1961 there have been nine records comprising 49 birds , 39 of them in the winter of 1962/63 .
28 Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ .
29 In 1953 there had been 4,068 subject entries from secondary modern schools ; by 1966 there were 22,000 , the floodgates were open , and alternative public examinations were being developed nationally .
30 Since the 1960s there have been big increases in the amounts of CFCs produced and consumed .
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