Example sentences of "[verb] been considerable [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In recent years , there has been considerable private sector intervention in secondary level education and vocational and technical training , mainly by the large mining companies .
2 For , roughly , the following utterance will be true ( 10 ) There is a man on Mars just in case at the time of speaking there is a man on Mars , whereas ( 11 ) will be true just in case at some time prior to the time of speaking ( 10 ) would have been true : ( 11 ) There was a man on Mars There has been considerable philosophical interest in expressions that have this context-dependent property , like demonstratives , first and second person pronouns , and morphemes indicating tense .
3 Recently , there has been considerable national publicity and extensive media coverage demonstrating increasing public concern about self-medication , and about the adverse effects of ‘ multi-prescription ’ .
4 Yet as we shall see in chapters 4 and 5 , there has been considerable theoretical work ( e. g. by Finsinger and Vogelsang , 1981 ) on socially efficient bonus structures , relating pay to social surplus created .
5 Whilst there has been considerable theoretical work in the area , there has been little empirical study of either state , or colleague control of professional practice .
6 In addition there has been considerable cultural experimentation , with the result that what is considered desirable in some places is not in others , where its consumption may indeed be taboo .
7 There has been considerable public concern about reduced hypoglycaemia awareness in patients taking human insulin .
8 There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire .
9 Although there had been considerable Russian settlement in Asia before the railway age , it was not until the building of the Central Asian and Trans-Siberian lines that settlement , and with it the exploitation of minerals and other natural resources , really took off .
10 The most substantive changes have been considerable upward adjustments in prices paid to farmers , which have had a positive effect on output .
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