Example sentences of "while there [verb] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While there had been much speculation about the state of Diana 's marriage , the stories Morton gathered from friends such as Caroline Bartholomew , James Gilbey and Diana 's brother Charles were dynamite .
2 While there had been some improvements in terms of flags and emblems , young people still do not apply for work in unsafe areas because of the serious risks involved .
3 While there has been much speculation as to the cause of these phenomena , the corpus of relevant empirical research remains small .
4 While there has been much research on the short term memory system of the type used to , eg , remember telephone numbers , relatively little is known about the nature of temporary memory for information which is held in the focus of attention during reading and conversation ( ‘ foregrounded' information ) .
5 But while there has been little analysis of the social relations of earlier , equally formal though smaller , or less formal and indeed informal institutions and associations , there ought to be some theoretical hesitation .
6 There has been a contraction and closure of plants , especially in the central urban areas , while there has been some expansion elsewhere .
7 While there has been some disagreement over the incidence of EEG spindling in neonates , the consensus of reports indicates that the development of spindles in the EEG of normal sleeping infants occurs between the end of the second month and end of the fourth , and the appearance of persistent spindling earlier or later than this time window tends to be associated with other clinical abnormalities .
8 While there has been some work on aspects of constitutions — particularly voting rules — only very recently has there been a return to the constitutional perspective associated with the classical constitutional theory associated with Montesquieu and Madison .
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