Example sentences of "there [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been for some time in Africa debate concerning the suitability for the Eucharist of wheat bread and grape wine . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | In a study of miraculous images of Mary which weep , the author , Father Hebert SM , after saying there is a long history of these writes , ‘ There has never been such an outpouring of tears as there has been in this century … more explicitly during the ten years , 1971–1981 , particularly so in Italy and in the United States ’ . |
| 4 | There has been in this sense de-differentiation in the postmodernist attempt to drain the aura from the work of art . |
| 5 | Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism . |
| 6 | Though he survived and prospered , there have been times this season when the chances of Mr Stringer lasting as Norwich manager until FA Cup semi-final day seemed remote . |
| 7 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |