Example sentences of "been numerous [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been numerous movies about ghosts and aliens before these . |
| 2 | You yourself provided detailed pointers to the inner workings of ‘ The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors , Even ’ , in ‘ The Green Box ’ , which is a sort of instruction manual , and there have also been numerous commentaries by critics . |
| 3 | Although there is to the author 's knowledge no previous research which has investigated relationships between subjective risk when driving and subsequent memory for driving situations , there have been numerous studies which consider the influences on memory of constructs such as mood , arousal or stress . |
| 4 | Predictably , there have been numerous success stories often involving mature women whose domestic commitments had prevented them from returning to employment , who had lost confidence in themselves or , if they were working , had little or no recognition for their linguistic and human management skills . |
| 5 | There have been numerous meetings er between the district , the county and the national park committee on the problems of environmental capacity within those areas . |
| 6 | There have been numerous accidents and near-misses on the blind bends . |
| 7 | In recent years , particularly in the US , there have been numerous experiments with new organisational shapes to replace the omnipresent pyramid . |
| 8 | Sir , — There have been numerous reports this year of Ipswich Town 's failure to get to grips with the increased demand for tickets . |
| 9 | Military expenditure is at a very high level , and there have been numerous reports , both inside and outside government , which attest to the corruption , inefficiency and massive profits being made in defence contracting . |
| 10 | There have been numerous criticisms of Freud 's theory of the Oedipus complex , and of his implied view of female sexuality . |
| 11 | There have been numerous changes recently to the way unemployment figures are counted , producing a downwards adjustment . |
| 12 | Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy . |
| 13 | It reached its present form over a long period of time during which there have been numerous law changes — not all of which have achieved their desired result , as Ian Kirkpatrick , Rutherford 's South African counterpart , was the first to point out . |
| 14 | In the weeks leading up to the elections , there had been numerous scenes of near-anarchy as food was looted from factories and warehouses and robbers held up cars on country roads . |
| 15 | 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 ] . |
| 16 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
| 17 | For plants there have been numerous papers on the relationship between growth indicators such as dry weight or leaf area and time . |
| 18 | There have been numerous calls for a more positive statement of the right to demonstrate peacefully , perhaps by the incorporation of Article 11 of the ECHR as part of domestic law . |
| 19 | Radiotherapy has no proved value in the treatment of gastric cancer and while there have been numerous trials of various chemotherapy regimens , none have proved to be valuable either as an adjuvant treatment or for advanced disease . |
| 20 | On a local or regional scale , such events can pose serious threats to human health — there have been numerous deaths resulting from the consumption of seafood containing algal toxins . |
| 21 | There 'd been numerous dark arched carved-wood doors leading off the hall , most of which she had still to investigate … |
| 22 | There have been numerous clashes between land-owners and new-age travllers in the county — last October two farmers lost 10 sheep in several attacks by dogs which they say came from a nearby travellers encampment . |
| 23 | As Amina Okada , the author of this book points out , there have been numerous publications on Mughal art but none that have concentrated on the individual artists . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly there have been numerous policy turnabouts , most noticeably at the time of the Cultural Revolution when forestry resources were misused for unsuitable land reclamation ( Gustafsson , undated ) , which in certain particularly vulnerable areas may have exacerbated the destructive floods of autumn 1981 . |
| 25 | When the organisers at Palazzo Grassi , the FIAT Foundation 's Venetian exhibition space , approached the scholar Massimo Pallottino with the suggestion that he organise an exhibition on the Etruscans he expressed surprise : there have been numerous Etruscan shows in Europe since the large touring exhibition of 1955–56 , the most recent being the ‘ Progetto Etrusco ’ in 1985 which involved the whole of Italy . |
| 26 | Mr James said : ‘ There has always been numerous safety management regulations in engineering but until now the administration side of the business has largely been ignored . |
| 27 | There have been numerous suggestions over the years that profiles or school reports should be used in conjunction with examination results . |
| 28 | There have been numerous suggestions of increased numbers of racial attacks , many supposedly attributable directly or indirectly to the BNP 's presence , although racial attacks in many parts of London are , and have long been , so numerous ( and usually unreported ) that only a tiny fraction even of the most serious could ever be laid at the BNP 's door . |
| 29 | In more recent times there have been numerous entries from Eastern Europe , including a pair of Russian runners in 1961 — Reljef and Grifel . |
| 30 | In the aftermath of the failed August coup in the Soviet Union there had been numerous demands and demonstrations in support of a ban on communist activities in Romania . |