Example sentences of "[adj] there have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So from the beginning of 1972 there have been involved in five major enquiries relating to Northern Ireland a former Lord Chancellor ( twice ) , a present and a former Lord Chief Justice , a Lord of Appeal , and a High Court judge . |
| 2 | Despite this there have been various Parliamentary attempts to define the phrase . |
| 3 | Since Normanton ( 1971 ) wrote this there have been important moves to improve the information provided by local authorities , though Tomkins ( 1977 ) points out that the standards of reports vary , some being elaborate while others are simply extracts from the accounts . |
| 4 | Despite this there have been long-standing assumptions that management is the same as administration . |
| 5 | Because of this there has been scientific and practical interest in the facks that amonoantibiotic regimen comprising omeprazole and amoxicillin has been highly successful in eradicating H pylori in some pilot studies and has shown good results with regard to H pylori reinfection and the clinical course of peptic ulcer disease in the first year after treatment . |
| 6 | Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries . |
| 7 | Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state . |
| 8 | In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade . |
| 9 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 10 | Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 11 | Since 1976 there has been great erosion of respect for local government . |
| 12 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 13 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 14 | In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media . |
| 15 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 16 | Since the 1960s there have been big increases in the amounts of CFCs produced and consumed . |
| 17 | In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering . |
| 18 | Since 1974 there has been increasing evidence of party politics intervening in local elections , with local-authority-wide campaigns being fought on national policy programmes . |
| 19 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 20 | Huge there 's been huge drug busting over the last two years . |