Example sentences of "[num] [ex0] have [be] " in BNC.

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1 In April 2 there had been a clash between the security forces and civilians in the Bassatine suburb of southern Cairo after the security forces had intervened to prevent the distribution of tracts hostile to the regime .
2 Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 .
3 So from the beginning of 1972 there have been involved in five major enquiries relating to Northern Ireland a former Lord Chancellor ( twice ) , a present and a former Lord Chief Justice , a Lord of Appeal , and a High Court judge .
4 Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia .
5 In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 .
6 In the difficult economic climate of the 1970s and 80s there have been more frequent cries from industry for assistance , which States have not always resisted in their desire to minimise the disruptive effects of economic change .
7 One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism .
8 Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms .
9 Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries .
10 However , since about 1985 there had been a divergence of judicial thinking on the subject and the law was at a cross-roads .
11 Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented .
12 Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ?
13 Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography .
14 In 1963 there had been 10.5 million vehicles , so what was involved was a doubling within 10 years and nearly a trebling within 20 years .
15 The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown .
16 During 1991 there had been over 300 finds entered into the by twenty-six members .
17 At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet .
18 Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ .
19 Since 1979 there has been , in Honderich 's view , a ‘ decay of decency ’ for which the Conservative Party , and in particular the influence of the ‘ lumpen intelligentsia ’ of the new right , have been responsible .
20 Since 1979 there has been a reversal in regional policy .
21 Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries .
22 Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state .
23 Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ?
24 Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent .
25 In 1920 there had been six London evenings .
26 By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned .
27 In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France .
28 In 1871 there were three Discourses having some connection with military topics , whereas in 1870 there had been one ; in 1872 there was one , and in 1873 none again .
29 In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade .
30 Since 1969 there have been six ‘ near misses ’ .
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