Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [det] controversy " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been much controversy about the theory . |
| 2 | The problem of Britain 's relatively slow rate of growth in the post-war period , compared with other industrial countries and in particular its failure to diversify and innovate competitively , is a very deep rooted one , about which there has been much controversy . |
| 3 | There has been much controversy in the 1980s about the role and future of the Welfare State . |
| 4 | This is a subject over which there has been much controversy . |
| 5 | There has been some controversy in recent years about how best to analyse contingency data . |
| 6 | There has been some controversy as to the exact role of the police authority . |
| 7 | Now , am I right in saying that there has been some controversy in the past about hormone replace , let's call it H R T , it 's shorter , that er that not everyone 's convinced it 's it 's it 's a good idea , that there are maybe some negative side effects . |
| 8 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |