Example sentences of "[noun sg] there [vb base] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in the main ring there have been displays of everything from parachuting to sheep dog displays . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | We have also seen that for the purposes of civil liability there have been proposals for a generalised statutory scheme for exceptional risks . |
| 6 | Of course there have been discussions between the Trust and civil servants but nothing has gone to PESC ( the expenditure talks ) . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Of course there have been men , ’ she said with a toss of her head . |
| 8 | But in every age there have been poets who were uninterested in thus cutting their poems free of any but a linguistic reality , poets who are ‘ realistic ’ and ‘ mimetic ’ in the most straightforward senses of those two complicated words . |
| 9 | This season there have been signs that Jane 's early talent is budding anew . |
| 10 | Throughout his career there have been calls on Prince by both the US and UK critical establishment to be a better role model , to make himself accountable to some kind of community , to address himself explicitly to the problems of the day . |
| 11 | In the past there have been roads named after Shakespeare characters , famous painters and even Nottingham Forest footballers ! |
| 12 | Over the five days of the championship there have been rumblings about the ice and the stones . |
| 13 | In other parts of the world there have been cases where it was desired to combine a system of local independent governments with a unifying central administration which would provide strength especially for foreign affairs and defence . |
| 14 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
| 15 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |
| 16 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 17 | Since the turn of the year there have been nods and winks that Jackson 's job was in jeopardy . |
| 18 | This year there have been publications about both . |
| 19 | Whatever lucky chances there were and miraculous escapes , all through history there have been despoliations , deprivations , tearings asunder , deaths and devastations , and among those to whom nothing is restored must be people around us , people we see . |
| 20 | Even in this century there have been failures . |
| 21 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
| 22 | But from time to time there have been cases where ministers , or more often officials , decide that listing is undesirable for what are , frankly , purely political grounds . |
| 23 | From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee . |
| 24 | For some time there have been rumours that the urbs have been solving the problem by having their foxes caught and surreptitiously turned loose in remote rural areas . |
| 25 | Ever since there has been Christmas there have been complaints that it has become over-commercialised . |