Example sentences of "[ex0] be [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 2 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 3 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 4 | ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’ |
| 5 | After a moment she added , in an offhand tone , ‘ By the way , have there been any phone calls this week when I 've been out ? ’ |
| 6 | Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade . |
| 7 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
| 8 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 9 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 10 | ‘ Have there been any developments ? ’ |
| 11 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
| 12 | ‘ Have there been any claims ? ’ |
| 13 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 14 | Had there been any trouble . ’ |
| 15 | Have there been any breaches of confidentiality or illegal use of information by search firms you have employed in the past ? |
| 16 | ( 7 ) Have there been any disputes between the seller and the lessor and/or the owners or occupiers of adjoining or neighbouring properties ? |
| 17 | First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note . |
| 18 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 19 | With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ? |
| 20 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 21 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 22 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 23 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 24 | Had there been any butterflies around they 'd have been stacked above his head three layers high , all waiting for a chance to land … |
| 25 | ‘ Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’ |
| 26 | Had there been another voice ? |
| 27 | Had there been another reason ? |
| 28 | At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased . |
| 29 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |
| 30 | Now er I have to warn him there are that sort of conduct has been indulged in to the detriment of the people of Highfields over a significant period by the Labour party . |