Example sentences of "there been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 2 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 3 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 4 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 5 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 6 | Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment . |
| 7 | ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’ |
| 8 | Not only have there been many important exhibitions held on these issues but many women artists have developed brave and challenging work . |
| 9 | Had there been other questions Puddephat 's widow did n't want to talk about ? |
| 10 | Indeed , only in Lurgan and Dungannon has there been serious complaints about too much security recently . |
| 11 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
| 12 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
| 13 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
| 14 | Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana . |
| 15 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |
| 16 | ‘ Never has there been such a farce ’ |
| 17 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
| 18 | Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ? |
| 19 | First : why have there been such strong fluctuations in fertility in the last half-century , and are they likely to continue ? |
| 20 | Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ? |
| 21 | Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen . |
| 22 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
| 23 | But Coun Wigley said he was in contact with a lot of local people and had there been such an incident he would have heard . |
| 24 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 25 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 26 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 27 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 28 | Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader-board behind the home green . |
| 29 | Has there been exceptional wastage ? |
| 30 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |