Example sentences of "[that] there [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm th there were some complaints about er , this is first liaison meeting that there 'd been in the county , and you know they were obviously |
| 2 | Maxine confessed that there had been times when she had thought she might be going mad , so great was her horror of water . |
| 3 | She was n't cruel enough to tell him that there had been times when she had almost wished he had . |
| 4 | Despite the fact that there had been at least 350 murders in Haiti in the past year , Avril responded to the attack by claiming that emergency measures were necessary " to protect democratic accomplishments against terrorism " . |
| 5 | It has to be said that there has been for some years within the Labour Party something of a class divide — a working-class element resentful of a middle-class takeover by lawyers and the like . |
| 6 | erm Listeners will probably know that there has been for many years what 's called the Schools Council , which has looked at erm curriculum matters and examination matters , and a year or so ago it was decided to discontinue the Schools Council , and to replace it by two successor committees , one the School Curriculum Development Committee , which you 've already mentioned and which I chair , and a parallel committee concerned with examinations , the School Examination , sorry the Secondary Examination Council , which is chaired by a mathematician , Sir Wilfred Cockroft . |
| 7 | To conclude , the fact that there has been to date remarkably little progress towards an independent discipline of material culture is due , at least in part , to the particular history of that field within anthropology . |
| 8 | But most architects involved in liability cases feel that there has been at least some contribution to his own losses by the claimant . |
| 9 | Is he aware that there has been at least one case in which , having seen a name badge , a claimant looked in the phone book and traced the Benefits Agency employee to his home . |
| 10 | The third point which has come out in a number erm of comments , certainly from the C P R E is the issue of overshoots in the approved structure plan in respect to Greater York , and as we made clear in paragraph eight of our er erm position statement , we accept that there has been in numeric terms in the period eighty one to ninety two something like fifteen percent overshoot in terms of completions er in that period . |
| 11 | Firstly , I am reporting to you that there has been in the current year additional efficiency savings over and above those that previously anticipated er at the level of two hundred thousand pounds and so we are assuming in the budget erm that those can continue into ninety four , five and thereafter , and then we 'll see the resolutions have been amended to take that into account and the text of the erratum sheet explains how that 's been done . |
| 12 | The Labour party won control of Derbyshire with a substantial majority in 1981 and the inspector of constabulary says that there have been at least eight years of progressive underfunding by the police committee — 1.8 per cent . |
| 13 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 14 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |