Example sentences of "there [verb] not been any [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There has not been any real investment in that region since 1979 .
2 As we showed earlier in this section , there has not been any serious shortage of capital for investment during the period covered by this study .
3 But a Garda spokesman in Dundalk said : ‘ There has not been any notable increase in crime , certainly no more so than in any other area . ’
4 Clearly there has not been any significant surge in the interest of draining wetlands and wet pastures in spite of opportunities to do so .
5 And the letter is tells me basically that they 've not been able to find out what the cause of the explosion was , and that there has n't been any further explosion since .
6 There was no doubt in his mind that they would break in , since there had n't been any failed revolutions on the island during his time .
7 Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off .
8 ‘ There are still occasional reports of green recycling bags going for disposal with the rest of the office refuse , and we are certainly not catching anywhere near all the potentially recyclable paper that is being thrown out , ’ commented environmental engineer Andrew Ollevant , ‘ but there have n't been any serious hiccups in getting the scheme established . ’
9 There have n't been any other erm any other areas er , of complaint with er
10 There have n't been any major er , examples of er , bed blocking in , in the , in the county , so that part of it seems to have worked er , smoothly .
11 Oh well that was lucky cos there have n't been any more
12 So far as I know , however , there have not been any comprehensive studies of the rise and fall of various economic groups in more recent times , nor has there been an attempt to provide , on a broad scale , an economic interpretation of political events in the twentieth century , although there are of course many elements of such an interpretation in recent Marxist debates about modes of production , in the analyses of development and underdevelopment , and in the theories of industrial and post-industrial societies .
13 Indeed , as far as I am aware , there have not been any previous accidents of this nature within the tunnel .
14 I 've not seen any there 's not been any more in erm workmen in .
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