Example sentences of "[noun pl] [ex0] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 2 | It seems to me quite certain that , if for four centuries there had been a very widely extended franchise and a very large elected body in this country , there would have been no reformation of religion , no change of dynasty , no toleration of Dissent , not even an accurate Calendar . |
| 3 | The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion . |
| 4 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 5 | Between the mid-seventeenth and the mid-twentieth centuries there have been three discernible periods , each characterized by different patterns of sharing . |
| 6 | On a few of the more established family units there had been development into quite considerable contracting businesses which enabled the family to continue to live on or around the farm . |
| 7 | been a lot , on cars there 's been a lot of |
| 8 | Among the Paracelsians there had been an emphasis on inner illumination , which could be perceived as a threat to established forms of religion . |
| 9 | His calls in the District 's Annual Report for renewed efforts to encourage students to become members were echoed in the Norfolk Democrat , the magazine of the Norfolk Federation among whose branches there had been a particularly serious loss of membership . |
| 10 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 11 | In recent months there had been numerous incidents , in Armenia and the disputed Nagorny Karabakh enclave within Armenia , in which Armenian militants ambushed troops and raided police stations to capture weapons [ for worst such incident , in Yerevan in May , see p. 37462 ] . |
| 12 | This section is mainly concerned with the initial stages of rising capital for Eurotunnel but in recent months there have been growing doubts about the financial viability of the project . |
| 13 | Smart said : ‘ Over the last few months there have been a number of crimes of minor violence in the central area of the town and the parks . |
| 14 | Over the last eighteen months there have been a number of major changes in your life . |
| 15 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 16 | I understand that during the past 12 months there have been three gas leaks , two in the southern sector and one in the northern sector . |
| 17 | In recent months there has been a lively debate — much of it behind the scenes — into how the hospitality industry can speak more effectively to Government . |
| 18 | In the last year to eighteen months there has been a drop to virtually no enquiries concerning our secured or term loan program ’ . |
| 19 | In the last few months there has been a flood of people seeking membership , and several regional groups have been set up . |
| 20 | In the past two months there has been a rash of newspaper advertisements for unlicensed patches available by mail order . |
| 21 | In these three months there has been nothing but support for this scheme , some of it qualified , but nevertheless support , that it should go ahead . |
| 22 | Tensions there had been throughout the century but there is some evidence of a conscious ‘ respectable ’ assault on this precarious independence by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 24 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 25 | In more recent periods of decades there have been , secondly , many investigations of the impact of human activity for example upon river channels ( Gregory , 1981 ; Park , 1981 ) and of changes during decades rather than millennia . |
| 26 | In recent decades there have been substantial changes in the family and household experiences of people in Britain , especially in the 1980s . |
| 27 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 28 | There were still many family units left although in the last two decades there has been a tendency for farm sizes to increase . |
| 29 | Indeed , in the last two decades there has been only one event of sufficient gravity to create stunned , almost disbelieving debate among past and present Baldersdale folk — Hannah Hauxwell herself . |
| 30 | In fact , as we shall see , employers in the USA — particularly in the manufacturing sector where enterprise-level bargaining and large corporations predominate — have felt less need for association with other employers for negotiating purposes , while in Britain over the past two decades there has been a trend towards the adoption of company-centred industrial relations policies rather than continued adherence to the norms laid down by an association . |