Example sentences of "[noun pl] there [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the 11th century , such events had been popular for about 500 years but over the centuries there had been great changes to the ways in which they had been conducted . |
| 2 | In recent months there had been numerous incidents , in Armenia and the disputed Nagorny Karabakh enclave within Armenia , in which Armenian militants ambushed troops and raided police stations to capture weapons [ for worst such incident , in Yerevan in May , see p. 37462 ] . |
| 3 | Over the past few months there have been detailed discussions ( which are continuing ) in Brussels over the technical context and allocation of funding for the new workplan . |
| 4 | This section is mainly concerned with the initial stages of rising capital for Eurotunnel but in recent months there have been growing doubts about the financial viability of the project . |
| 5 | In recent decades there have been substantial changes in the family and household experiences of people in Britain , especially in the 1980s . |
| 6 | In the last three decades there has been considerable success for auctioneering , both in terms of money and also in prestige . |
| 7 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 8 | But for the past few days there had been continuous rain , and the forecast was for more bad weather to come . |
| 9 | In previous days there had been violent clashes between students and police , which left 47 people wounded in Bamako , and there were reports of similar incidents in Gao , Sevare and Mopti . |
| 10 | In recent days there 's been increasing evidence that the European countries , including Britain , are extremely disturbed about this . |
| 11 | The divisions were given the go-ahead for construction five years in advance of the anticipated need for capacity , but during the previous three years there had been detailed consultations between headquarters and the divisions , about the power requirements , about the site , and about the design and layout of the proposed plant . |
| 12 | In recent years there had been considerable debate about the nature of the railways ' contribution to economic growth . |
| 13 | During these years there had been routine protests in places like the United Nations , which France ignored , and around the island of Moruroa itself involving the Greenpeace organisation . |
| 14 | The report points out that over the past two years there have been international hotel mergers and acquisitions worth $8.8b ( £5.5b ) . |
| 15 | Over the years there have been innumerable accidents and incidents caused by the airbrakes opening in flight . |
| 16 | One further point : the actuarial profession is firmly egalitarian and for many years there have been equal opportunities for women . |
| 17 | Over the past 15 years there have been great advances towards an ordinary life in the community for people with learning difficulties : the growth of ordinary housing ; the development of employment and education opportunities ; steps towards integration in the community and more flexible support services ; and the mushrooming of self-advocacy . |
| 18 | Over the last ten years there have been major changes in the employment structure of British society . |
| 19 | For the past number of years there have been severe cutbacks in the housing budget . |
| 20 | MI6 remains to this day a secret organisation that does not officially exist despite the fact that in recent years there have been numerous books written about its activities . |
| 21 | although in recent years there have been significant improvements in the provision of research and library facilities for M.P.s these still lag fir behind those available to their counterparts abroad . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been significant statutory interventions protecting the consumer . |
| 23 | Yet research into contemporary demography and statistics soon demonstrates that in recent years there have been dramatic changes in trends and patterns of marriage , divorce and cohabitation . |
| 24 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 25 | Over recent years there has been increasing interest in these widely distributed and biologically important compounds , and their importance in platelet biochemistry and platelet-vessel wall interactions has been emphasised . |
| 26 | In the last fifty years there has been increasing competition from foreign textile and clothing firms for markets in all parts of the world . |
| 27 | In recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the importance of training for staff at all levels in libraries of all kinds but apart from a circular letter sent out by The Library Association in 1976 , and two publications on the subject , one in 1977 and another in 1978 , there have been no systematic attempts to assess overall provision of training in the UK . |
| 28 | There is no presumption that monopoly is necessarily bad , and the Commission is charged to investigate whether or not the monopoly acts against the public interest , a brief that may be widely interpreted though in recent years there has been increasing emphasis on the ‘ maintenance and promotion of effective competition ’ . |
| 29 | In recent years there has been increasing interest in the evaluation of performance in the public sector of the economy . |
| 30 | Over the past few years there has been increasing interest in the biological characteristics of biliary and gall bladder epithelial cells in an attempt to enhance our understanding of diseases affecting the biliary tree . |