Example sentences of "[noun] there [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even here in Roztoky there have been burglaries . ’ |
| 2 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 3 | At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers . |
| 4 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 5 | In Bristol there have been complaints that the hit squad are ‘ out of touch ’ after several insensitive hits that were not entirely well-meaning . |
| 6 | In the last fifty years there have been problems for the fishermen and most have become unemployed or moved to other jobs . |
| 7 | In more recent years there have been signs of a change in emphasis . |
| 8 | In the past few years there have been signs of its introduction and extension by manufacturing organisations experiencing increasing volatility in their markets , increasing inability to predict their manpower requirements and increasing pressures to minimise labour costs . |
| 9 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 10 | As guardians of its wildlife , Hong Kong 's British tenants can not be said to have done very well , though in the last ten years there have been attempts by Hong Kong conservationists to save what is left . |
| 11 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 12 | Within the past few years there have been developments that give rise to the hope that before too long we shall have a filly consistent quantum theory of gravity , one that will agree with general relativity for macroscopic objects and will , one hopes , be free of the mathematical infinities that have long bedeviled other quantum field theories . |
| 13 | For years there have been complaints that our school system leads inexorably to too narrow a specialization , especially in the sixth form . |
| 14 | For several years there have been complaints from Bramshott residents about flooding , erosion of banks and the neglected state of the path . |
| 15 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 16 | For many years there have been proponents of the theory that one of the ‘ lobe-finned ’ fishes included the ancestor of the tetrapods , and it is not difficult to imagine their stumpy fins , with a fleshy core , making the uneasy transition into a walking leg . |
| 17 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 18 | For many years there have been worries over the increasing monopolisation of British industry , as evidenced by increased levels of both aggregate and market concentration , and for which there is little doubt that merger activity has , at times , been a major causal factor ( see e.g. HMSO 1978 , Hughes 1989 ) . |
| 19 | Over more than ten years there have been negotiations between Kent County Council ( which originally intended to retain West Malling as a general aviation aerodrome ) and the local planning authority that intended to build all over it . |
| 20 | Local people mutter and march , make speeches and throw things ; staff face sarcasm in nearby pubs ; and for years there have been demands for a public inquiry . |
| 21 | In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity . |
| 22 | In Austria there have been sales by the holding company for state companies , Obesterreichissche Industrien , and in Sweden also . |
| 23 | In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance . |
| 24 | We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks . |
| 25 | Of course there have been discussions between the Trust and civil servants but nothing has gone to PESC ( the expenditure talks ) . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Of course there have been men , ’ she said with a toss of her head . |
| 27 | Even in more recent times there have been calls to make nationalized industries , through their audit reports , more accountable to Parliament . |
| 28 | Advocates of a return to gold still remain , and at times there have been proposals to consider reinstating it as the key reserve asset in the international monetary system . |
| 29 | Thus in London at different times there have been groups which have called themselves the Society of Twelve , the Seven and Five , and One/Four . |
| 30 | Yet to characterise the development in this fashion is too simplistic since at different times there have been offshoots , modifications and borrowings from different countries and even within them . |