Example sentences of "[noun sg] there [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 2 | As a result there have been real achievements : hundreds of thousands of workers have been trained to work in rural areas and attack fatal conditions like dehydration from diarrhoea ( still the main killer of young children worldwide ) with the simplest and cheapest remedies . |
| 3 | As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families . |
| 4 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 5 | During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun . |
| 6 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 7 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 8 | For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available . |
| 9 | In that-place there had been intricate gardens , where water wheels turned musically and water lilies bloomed moon-white , and giant goldfish floated under them . |
| 10 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 11 | For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution . |
| 12 | In the last decade there have been dramatic developments in the treatment of infertility and artificial reproductive techniques . |
| 13 | Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity . |
| 14 | Earlier that day there had been dramatic scenes in Tirana 's central Skanderbeg Square as protesters toppled a huge statue of Enver Hoxha , Albania 's hardline Stalinist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985 . |
| 15 | In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood . |
| 16 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 17 | In addition there have been significant decreases in fertility over the same period . |
| 18 | In the area of assessment there has been considerable debate in recent years among Catholic teachers . |
| 19 | Ahead of the plenum there had been unprecedented calls from party branches for Gorbachev to step down . |
| 20 | However , despite early adoption there have been considerable doubts as to the effectiveness of such rational approaches . |
| 21 | Earlier in the month there had been official denials of allegations of a coup plan which had been reportedly made on Nov. 5 in Washington by Eduardo Molina Olivares , a member of the independent Truth Commission charged under the peace process with ascertaining responsibility for human rights abuses . |
| 22 | Since early morning there has been intermittent drumming in different parts of the village and the echo rolls round the valley like the stifled rumblings of a caged lion . |
| 23 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 24 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 25 | In the aftermath of the failed August coup in the Soviet Union there had been numerous demands and demonstrations in support of a ban on communist activities in Romania . |
| 26 | Despite the setbacks before the Uprising there had been growing recognition of PLO leadership in the territories . |
| 27 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 28 | This is one reason there has been rampant speculation about foreign involvement in the bombings . |
| 29 | Throughout the period of their being in care there have been regular appeals to the sheriff court . |
| 30 | Early in the project there had been considerable discussion among the development officers and their supervisor about the ending of the project , and how the care of on-going clients was to be continued after the withdrawal of the development officers . |