Example sentences of "[noun] there [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On walking into the Stop Hinkley Centre , Marshall introduced himself with typical candour as ‘ the enemy ’ , then launched into a long shaggy dog story about how much opposition there had been to a hydro-electric scheme in Snowdonia . |
| 2 | What is remarkable is how little political opposition there has been to the programme to date . |
| 3 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 4 | there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing . |
| 5 | Tensions there had been throughout the century but there is some evidence of a conscious ‘ respectable ’ assault on this precarious independence by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | On 2 March 1939 Pacelli was elected pope in succession to Pius XI in the shortest conclave there had been since 1623 . |
| 7 | However , Lois Maxwell , who played the ever-loyal Miss Moneypenny , says , ‘ Diana and I had lunch together and after eating some shrimps she realized how much garlic there had been in them . |
| 8 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 9 | Over recent years there have been on average over 100 children per year injured in accidents whilst on journeys to or from school ( see Table 28 ) . |
| 10 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 11 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 12 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 13 | Huy was wondering how much truth there had been in what Ipuky had said about his sons . |
| 14 | It was as though they had returned to the relationship there had been between them on Ridgery Butts when he had taught her to use the bow , and encouraged her with gentle praise . |
| 15 | Although they are by present standards very much ‘ old hat ’ , it is surprising when you look back to realise how little change there has been in the fundamental principles of some systems . |
| 16 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 17 | She had n't really believed it herself , not all of it anyway ; so when her mother started telling her that what Davy Treffry had said was more or less true , she wanted to put her hands over her ears and not listen ; she did n't want to know about the argument there had been between her father and her Uncle Harry ; she did n't want to hear about how they picked their wives by some silly fishing competition . |
| 18 | Youngest works foreman there 's been around these parts . |
| 19 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 20 | We were interested to see how far proposals were concentrated on particular aspects of the curriculum ( as opposed to an across-the-curriculum approach ) , how much participation there had been in arriving at the proposal , whether information-handling skills were recognised , and so on . |
| 21 | The recollection was faintly depressing , making her realise how little useful or productive communication there had been between them . |
| 22 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 23 | * Whatever the actual figures in any particular parish , the number of Georgian farmers was generally only a fraction of the number there had been in the medieval or Tudor village . |
| 24 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 25 | In the past year there have been at least eight deaths in custody which are believed to have resulted from torture . |
| 26 | Although the material was systematically arranged as it was collected , the system changed very significantly at least three times , and by the time it arrived at the Institute in Nottingham , any order there had been in the files of material was lost . |
| 27 | Sec. in his report remarked on the high level of activity there has been during the past year . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will indicate the nature and range of discussions he has had with OFTEL on the length of time customers have had to wait to have their telephones repaired ; what changes in waiting time there have been in the last seven years ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 29 | What socialism there has been among the catholic — nationalist tradition has always tended to be allied to republicanism , especially in the period 1913 to 1930 ( Rumpf and Hepburn 1977 : 13 ) . |
| 30 | To ask the Attorney-General how many prosecutions for inciting racial hatred there have been in each of the past two years ; and if he will make a statement . |