Example sentences of "[vb -s] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been important studies of aspects of modern cities , but in my view there has been no recent study of a significant part of a great industrial city considered as a whole . |
| 2 | Land is important in Cramlington but there has been no recent radical change in its ownership or development pattern . |
| 3 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 4 | But it can not be accepted that every time there is a tragedy in the Health Service , where there has been no professional neglect , that instantly there should be compensation . |
| 5 | However , as there has been no simultaneous monitoring of incidence , it is extremely difficult to determine the effects of these expensive actions to human health and wellbeing . |
| 6 | Rosenthal , who is keen to move back to the continent , has also been touted in France although as yet there has been no definite interest . |
| 7 | Dr Marsh said : ‘ There has been no radical change to our financial situation since the Annual General Meeting in August , apart from the income that has been generated through the gates . |
| 8 | There has been no general attempt to rewrite the history of the period from a perspective based on changes in consumption and material culture ( though see Mukerji 1983 ) , but two examples may be suggestive , the first derived from historians and the second from studies of material culture . |
| 9 | There has been no political pressure from the Foreign Office or elsewhere to prevent the exhibition . |
| 10 | there has been no adverse change in the financial position or prospects of the Business ; |
| 11 | As yet there has been no other attempt to describe so vividly in dance the wish of any character , but in this case a puppet , to escape from prison . |
| 12 | There has been no other attempt that I know of to theorise dance and its particular appeal for girls . |
| 13 | What is more , there has been no other deposit quite like it either before or since , except perhaps some Miocene chalks which themselves are remarkably widespread : in the western approaches to the English Channel , in Malta , Cyprus and the Middle East and all the way to New Zealand . |
| 14 | There has been no other business items and the same for there 's been no questions either . |
| 15 | But this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3–0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent . |
| 16 | A Sri Lankan total of 408 for eight , and a first-innings deficit so far of 28 , would not normally be a cause for satisfaction , but this has been no ordinary tour for England , beaten 3-0 in the Indian Test series and consistently outplayed on the pitches of the sub-continent . |
| 17 | There should be approximate equivalence of numbers so long as there has been no preferential loss of either jaws or teeth , and the expected percentage values should be in the region of 100 per cent . |
| 18 | For all these species , therefore , it is assumed that there has been no preferential loss of jaws or teeth and that the numbers would be equivalent except for sampling errors . |
| 19 | There has been no such softening in the rest of the world , which the west has now taken under its protective tutelage . |
| 20 | However , there has been no such disengagement , let alone direct argument against such texts in general . |
| 21 | State if there has been no such contract . |
| 22 | To the best of my knowledge , there has been no such request by British Rail . |
| 23 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 24 | There has been no such rethink for the changes planned in civil legal aid in court , which was granted in more than 23,000 cases in 1991/92 . |
| 25 | Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small . |
| 26 | It was done by Sadlers Wells in the late forties , but there has been no new production until this recent one in the opera . |
| 27 | Fletcher ( 1990 ) has argued for the extension of cervical screening after the age of 65 years but as yet there has been no similar argument for breast cancer screening . |
| 28 | There has been no similar move in the British parties , although Conservative party conferences have always had a high proportion of women delegates . |
| 29 | Many claims are received in respect of cigarette burns to furniture , carpets etc. and although there has been no actual ‘ fire ’ , it is generally accepted that such claims can be considered as fire damage . |
| 30 | Despite the changing circumstances within which the press now operates and much evidence with which to discredit its own claims to legitimacy as ‘ the fourth estate ’ , there has been no serious attempt to reconsider the theories of the press and the media generally as they relate to the remaining decade of this century . |