Example sentences of "been several [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the interwar years there had been several proposals for something that would go beyond this to involve governments , and in 1938 the idea of a Nordic Council had been proposed by Denmark . |
| 2 | There have also been several innovations in the design of styling wands and hot brushes . |
| 3 | There have been several monasteries here on the mountain slopes above the city of Athens ; they are now deserted and partly ruined . |
| 4 | There have been several instances in the late 1980s of undercover operations leading to the rounding up of soccer hooligan offenders ( Fielding , 1991:218 ) . |
| 5 | There have been several instances of polytechnic or college academic boards adopting a ‘ modular policy ’ which requires specified courses , over time , to move into a common framework of delivery ( usually achieved administratively by common timetabling and academically by convergence of course titles and examination arrangements ) . |
| 6 | He says there have been several instances in one council department where employees who are members of the Labour Party have been given temporary promotion . |
| 7 | There have now been several reports that have pointed to the fact that even in industries where there is a commitment to high safety standards , there is evidence that something is going wrong in the implementation and organisation . |
| 8 | There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident . |
| 9 | There have been several reports this year of petty theft and one violent incident . |
| 10 | That is true of some uncontroversial matters , but recently there have been several Bills of this kind , such as the one after the Hungerford massacre — that was rushed through the House and not dealt with properly — the council tax Bill — that was rushed through the House and is a mess — and the Dangerous Dogs Bill that was also rushed through all its stages . |
| 11 | There had been several rapes in the London area at around that time and , sure enough , the attacker was waiting , hidden in the alley , for an unsuspecting and defenceless visitor . |
| 12 | Under this rubric there have been several locations which in the 1980s , at least at a particular , symbolic level , have lent a rhetorical credibility to the notion of an urban renaissance in many parts of the First World . |
| 13 | Feeling around the issue runs high : there have been several demonstrations at which protesters have been arrested . |
| 14 | In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases . |
| 15 | As discussed previously , prostaglandins , thromboxanes and their precursor arachidonic acid are critical substances in platelet metabolism ( Samuelsson , 1977 ) , and there have been several studies of the activity of the prostaglandin pathway and thromboxane synthesis in platelets from diabetic subjects . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , there have been several studies of patients who cut themselves which are very informative for the clinician ( Clendenin and Murphy 1971 ; Rosenthal et al. 1972 ; Simpson 1975 ) . |
| 17 | Since that time there have been several studies with more modern radiotherapy techniques and fractionation to minimise complications and maximise symptom control for advanced cancers . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , there have been several incidents in the capital recently . |
| 19 | Barnard Castle police said there had been several incidents reported at Winston Bridge . |
| 20 | There have been several cases of two-seaters being overstressed by pilots pulling back hard to recover from steep dives after spin recoveries . |
| 21 | There have been several cases in the last few years in which police and Immigration Officers have raided factories and taken workers away . |
| 22 | The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth . |
| 23 | Indeed there have been several cases in the press recently of 10- or 11-year-olds being so severely beaten for under-achievement at school that they died . |
| 24 | There have been several cases in the past where it appeared people were acting out violent scenes from films . |
| 25 | There have been several changes in both areas since then . ) |
| 26 | With hindsight , there had been several signs of an impending conservative takeover . |
| 27 | There have been several attempts to explain the reasons for the strong seismic reflections from such zones . |
| 28 | Such models are necessary for the realisation of Wilson 's claim , and there have been several attempts at preliminary formulations by social scientists , archaeologists , population geneticists and from Wilson himself . |
| 29 | Since then , there have been several attempts to persuade Government to relax the statutory requirements but these have failed , largely because of opposition from the Inland Revenue and the Treasury . |
| 30 | How much of these the foundation will manage to recover is an open question , but at least the collection is now safe ( there have been several attempts in the past to remove its best paintings to other museums ) . |