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

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1 Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’
2 There has been in recent years a steady increase in the number of courses in ‘ bilingual training for business people ’ .
3 The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period .
4 There has been in past years a steady requirement for 4BA nuts .
5 In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ .
6 Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism .
7 When they reached the market place , he realised that his father had been right : there were nowhere near as many workers as there had been in previous Novembers .
8 I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis .
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