Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [det] discussion " in BNC.

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1 In the UK there has been much discussion about teaching stall recoveries with a view to making it all easier for the beginner to understand and remember .
2 There has been much discussion recently of the nature of literary canons ; university teachers of English are seen as both initiators and guardians of the canon ( as , for instance , by Kermode in his essay , ‘ Institutional Control of Interpretation ’ ) .
3 There has been much discussion over the last decade about an ‘ entitlement ’ curriculum .
4 There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) .
5 In Britain these are in a state of flux although there has been much discussion about the role of the inspector over a long period of time .
6 There has been much discussion of attempts to increase labour force " flexibility " and the rise of the " flexible firm " , although it is not always clear if this discussion is based upon descriptions , predictions or prescriptions .
7 There has been much discussion recently about the value of the pound compared to the dollar .
8 Because of their apparent similarity to banks and their rapid expansion of recent years , there has been much discussion about their impact on banks , as competitors , and upon the money supply .
9 Recently there has been much discussion about new treatments for menorrhagia .
10 There has been much discussion of recent SNP parliamentary tactics .
11 There has been little discussion , however , about what this ‘ tragedy ’ might be or mean .
12 So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it .
13 There has been little discussion on the necessary degree of probability of a kind of damage occurring .
14 There has been more discussion of this phenomenon in relation to gender and race than age .
15 There has been some discussion in the literature as to the most appropriate way of expressing the degree of lateral asymmetry which a subject shows in an experiment .
16 There has been some discussion in the literature as to how left-right differences in performance should be measured .
17 It was the Prague School that unified Formalism and Saussurean linguistics in a single theoretical programme , or at least — as there has been some discussion as to the exact nature of the Prague school 's debt to Saussure — reformulated Formalist literary theory within the framework of a linguistics which shared most of Saussure 's fundamental principles , and to which they attached the label structuralism .
18 There has been some discussion in welfare economics and philosophical ethics about aspects of the problem , but there is no integrated treatment of the general question of valuing demographic changes .
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20 Over the autumn there 's been much discussion on Scottish winter grades .
21 In fact there 's been some discussion of this lately , John Elston has argued that if jurors knew that that 's why they were chosen to go on the jury , it would destabilize the princi the practice of it because if you knew you were going on jury just for self-education rather than to get the right results out the other end , then this would n't give you any way of motivating yourself properly for the jury .
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