Example sentences of "[ex0] have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , but for their own agricultural ministry , there would have been no American criticism , nor would there have been such a well-publicised fillip for the Californian sparkling wine industry . |
| 2 | Why should there have been such friction with the Nazareans in Jerusalem , some of whom had known Jesus personally and were certainly closer to him than Paul ever was ? |
| 3 | Although the wife , as the other trustee of the conveyance , should have received notice of any incumbrance ( see Dearle v Hall ( 1828 ) 3 Russ 1 ) , it is as well if the conveyance to the wife and new husband contains a recital that the property is free from incumbrances ( assuming this to be so ) to stop any requisitions on a later sale and also to direct the parties ' attention to any incumbrances if there have been such . |
| 4 | There have been many books written about improvisation and if I were asked to choose just one it would be Keith Johnston 's Impro which is straightforward , understandable , and theatrically aware . |
| 5 | Attempts to change the system — and there have been many — have always foundered on an unwillingness to abandon the gold standard of British education . |
| 6 | There have been many Western and Soviet studies of religious belief per se , and of the interaction in Soviet history between an atheist regime and a highly religious peasantry , but scant reference is made to socio-economic views and actions derived from religion that had ultimate political repercussions . |
| 7 | There have been many examples of long , classic singles , like ‘ Eloise ’ , ‘ McCarthur Park ’ and ‘ American pie ’ . |
| 8 | There have been many claims that Mrs Thatcher has shifted the agenda of British politics . |
| 9 | In the fifty years since the TA was last called up for war there have been many changes . |
| 10 | There have been many meetings and there are many programmes under discussion . |
| 11 | There have been many attempts to explain Baldwin 's 1929 election programme . |
| 12 | There were many then and there have been many since who believed the Rosenbergs were victims of an FBI frame-up but the American people were baying for scapegoats , not least for the grave reverses in Korea . |
| 13 | There have been many wars here . |
| 14 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 15 | Since he became leader , there have been many other occasions when his reluctance or inability to get through his homework have let him down and embarrassed his party . |
| 16 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 17 | Captain Pugwash is probably his best-known character but there have been many others : Harris Tweed , Lettice Leefe , Mary , Mungo and Midge , Sir Prancelot , and Cardinal Grotti in the Catholic Herald . |
| 18 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
| 19 | Few people find Anselm a serious contender for proving the existence of God , although there have been many philosophers who have rightly observed , as we have tried to do , that the logic of existence requires careful consideration . |
| 20 | There have been many volumes written on the Cotswold wool trade but comparatively little ever said about the silk industry . |
| 21 | It is possible that she acquired a posthumous conscience for , over the years , there have been many well-attested witnessings of her shade , wringing its hands — at the fate of William ? |
| 22 | There have been many theories accounting for the prevalence of North , North East and East facing galleries , including a favourite one that they were built so that thrifty spinners might sit out and catch the last of the waning daylight . |
| 23 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 24 | In South America where savannas occupy some 2 × 110 8 ha , there have been many modifications of the natural vegetation for a variety of agricultural purposes ranging from large-scale ranching to intensive cropping based on irrigation . |
| 25 | As examples of the achievements of these minds , I think of the Gandavyuha and the Sufis ' planes of reality but there have been many others whose level of vision is as extensive though in no sense more penetrating or more brilliant . |
| 26 | There have been many who have left their footsteps in the sand and bequeathed an example to follow . |
| 27 | There have been many different attempts to explain these pressures , in terms of capitalist crisis ( or the fiscal crisis of the state ( O'Connor , 1973 ) ) ; or the state acting as a leech on productive sectors of the economy ( most strongly argued in Bacon and Eltis , 1976 ) ; or simply in terms of monetarism ( outlined in Gamble , 1984 , pp. 145–9 ; Leys , 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Already there have been many studies of the effect of unemployment on health ; do they give useful results ? |
| 29 | There have been many attempts to understand why certain materials cause blood coagulation and many suggestions have been made as to how to overcome the problem . |
| 30 | There have been many attempts to produce haemocompatible materials and some researchers have suggested that the key to producing such materials is to have a negatively charged surface . |