Example sentences of "been [det] debate " in BNC.

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1 There has been little debate concerning the ‘ what ’ and the ‘ why ’ of deaf education .
2 Although local authorities and social service departments are in the process of developing systems of assessment in relation to care management , there has been little debate about the principles which ought to underpin assessment processes , nor about the purpose , scope , and content of comprehensive assessment with older people .
3 There has , however , been some debate in modern times about the motivation which lay behind this huge increase in Rome 's power : was it the constant aggression of neighbouring states which prompted Rome to take protective measures , and thereby incidentally achieve this new position , or was Rome an imperialist power whose expansion was internally motivated ( for example , by land hunger or aristocratic avarice for glory ) ?
4 It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre .
5 There has been some debate on how the form of the set of types may affect the type of outcomes sustainable as a sequential equilibrium in a reputation game , see for example Vickers ( 1986 ) .
6 In the last few years there has been some debate about the provision , role and effectiveness of postgraduate training in the social sciences in the UK .
7 During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs .
8 As a social group they could record both gains and losses from war , and there has been some debate among historians about how far a balance sheet can be struck for the country as a whole , whether England gained or lost from its military operations .
9 ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’
10 There has been some debate over the necessity of maintaining a central bank , when it is possible to have a free banking regime in which banks would be free to print their own notes to satisfy the demand for cash .
11 There has not yet been much debate about prices .
12 There has been much debate about this question of the unit of natural selection .
13 There has been much debate recently regarding the quality of meat used in pre-cooked meals , convenience foods and in the fast service restaurant industry .
14 For many years there has been much debate in the UK about who should care for diabetic patients — general practitioners or hospital-based doctors .
15 As we shall see , there has been much debate about whether unemployment can be reduced permanently by following policies which increase aggregate demand and in so doing raise the rate of inflation .
16 There has been much debate about whether increases in costs can be inflationary without an accompanying increase in the money supply .
17 There has been much debate about how much such rules and procedures should be used : too much , and the organisation becomes immobilised in bureaucratic red tape ; too little , and the organisation descends into anarchic chaos .
18 Over the years there has been much debate on the fusion of the two branches of the profession .
19 Over the years there has been much debate as to whether or not this state of affairs is really acceptable even given the fact that these industries are highly independent bodies .
20 In recent years , there has been much debate about the role of the C. and A.G. The office is an old and distinguished one .
21 There has been much debate on the imbalance in food and drink .
22 There has been much debate since the Judicature Acts as to whether they did something more than fuse the two systems at a procedural level , namely to change the substantive law .
23 There has been much debate about the real underlying purposes of this legislation which has been generally vaunted , most importantly in the major textbooks , as designed to ease the buying and selling of land ( see Chapter 10 ) .
24 There 's been much debate recently about whether the Tories are going to privatise the Health Service in the future .
25 There has been much debate about the effect on the local economy , the health of local residents , and the environment .
26 Mr Lamont said : ‘ There has been much debate about Britain 's experience with the ERM .
27 Within generative phonology there has been much debate about whether one can put tonic ( ‘ primary ’ ) stress in the right place without referring to the non-linguistic context in which the speaker says something .
28 There has been less debate on those here , and I guess that over the two days of the debate there will still be less .
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