Example sentences of "[adv] there have [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps there have been odd , amusing little things that have happened during our day 's work , and we share these .
2 Apparently there have been big extra bills for Saracen this year : this place costs a fortune to run . ’
3 Public sector housing development had followed the guidelines more closely than the private sector , but even so there had been substantial investment in some non-key villages .
4 When health authorities have attempted to do so there has been immediate and vociferous opposition , forcing a rapid reversal of policy ( Salter 1992 ) .
5 Over the last century or so there have been frequent conflicts between individual and group interests .
6 The predictions of zero-risk theory in terms of accident countermeasures are often at variance with those from RHT , thus there has been considerable debate about the relative merits of the two theories ( e.g. Evans , 1986a , b ; McKenna , 1982 , 1985 , 1988 ; Wilde , 1984 , 1986 ) .
7 Always there have been unembarrassed silences between us , but this time they are filled with their exhaustion .
8 NICHOLAS Baring ( above ) , chairman of Commercial Union , told the annual meeting yesterday there had been minimal disturbance to the insurer 's services following the IRA bomb last Friday .
9 I accept what the hon. Lady suggests , because clearly there have been regional differences in economic conditions .
10 There is an approximation to this for all of these samples , but clearly there has been considerable bone loss from even the most complete bone assemblages .
11 However , for several years now there have been low cost cameras like Polaroid 's Palette that provided a quick and effective alternative for those who either needed total confidentiality or were simply rather less fussy about the quality .
12 Now there has been real concern voiced about the delay in getting the unit off the ground .
13 Inevitably there has been considerable speculation on the causes and implications of urban disturbances .
14 Mm , well there have been subsequent erm employees of course but
15 But urban guerrillas do n't kidnap distinguished foreigners only to keep their exploit secret , hijackers can hardly help becoming news on the instant , and here there has been profound silence .
16 Until then there had been widespread sympathy for Polish aspirations for greater autonomy ‘ and the government had moved cautiously in that direction .
17 But since then there has been increasing realisation that the two causes must somehow be brought together .
18 Since then there have been various releases from Beat Club , ACR , Sub Sub and The Flamingoes , both The Beat Club and Sub Sub fashioning soon-to-be-released albums .
19 Since then there have been other men in her life but tonight , the plans I laid all those years ago reach fruition as I proudly introduce my partner for the evening .
20 Aristotle commented on the mule 's infertility in 350 BC , but since then there have been sporadic accounts of fertile she-mules — particularly , in retrospect , on some special occasion like the birth of Julius Caesar .
21 Since then there have been fundamental changes , and few of his principles appear to me to be applicable to the modern Constitution .
22 None the less , fortunately there have been fine contributions to the debate from the Conservative Benches .
23 Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 .
24 A scan of the literature concerned with early Anglo-Saxon archaeology over the last 25 years has hardly reflected this change until very recently when there have been definite signs that dissatisfaction is leading to experimentation ; otherwise the Sutton Hoo harp has been played while the archaeological world burned .
25 We have been very pleased that in the intervening months , when there has been ample opportunity for discussion and feedback , considerable support for this scheme has been forthcoming .
26 In a year when there has been considerable fund-raising to meet the Irish Ladies Hockey Union 's initial £m target , to help stage the World Cup finals in Dublin in July , Ulster officials are delighted to have successfully negotiated a year 's extension on Renault 's sponsorship of their senior leagues .
27 Once again there 's been great emphasis on cash maintenance .
28 So if you start saying there ca n't be any publicity where there 's been alleged malpractice or where there 's controversy er well you 're going to get into in into a ludicrous situation in which the media will never be able to discuss a situation of this sort .
29 Where the reference was automatic ( £1,000 or less only being involved ) Ord 19 , r 6 provides that no solicitors ' charges or litigant in person costs may be awarded except the costs which were stated on the summons or which would have been stated on the summons if the claim had been for a liquidated sum , the costs of enforcing the award , and such further costs as the arbitrator may direct where there has been unreasonable conduct on the part of the opposite party in relation to the proceedings or the claim therein .
30 The regulations against which the Opposition are praying concern backdated entitlement to benefit where there has been official Department of Social Security error or where relevant evidence was not known at the time of the original DSS decision .
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