Example sentences of "there [verb] [adv] been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We now know that BSE exists on the Continent and there has not been one case in a Welsh herd . ’ |
| 2 | It used to be thought that the Revolution assured regular Parliaments , and it is certainly true that since 1689 there has not been one year without the meeting of Parliament . |
| 3 | During the same period , there has not been one prosecution for corruption , although it is no secret that the economy is dominated by powerful politicians with access to cheap state funds , import licences and influence . |
| 4 | Even so , there has already been one triumph : inflation fell to 6% in the year to the third quarter , the lowest rate for 18 years apart from a brief spell in 1984–85 . |
| 5 | Unified control to eliminate any danger of overlapping , for which there has already been one unfortunate instance . |
| 6 | . There has n't been one game we 've been there that he has n't or both of them have n't . |
| 7 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 8 | There has only been one previous self-build scheme in Middlesbrough Paddock Wood in Coulby Newham , completed in the early Eighties . |
| 9 | There has always been one factor which has dominated the convictions of those who have sought to establish a religion , or its equivalent under whatever name . |
| 10 | You know , in all the time I 've worked here there has never been one single incidence of staff theft . |
| 11 | There had already been one heated exchange between herself and the school managers , when Outram had pointedly refused to apologize for introducing controversial subjects . |
| 12 | With fifty teams present , there had also been one hell of a party the night before . |
| 13 | Between 1974 and 1986 there had also been two tiers in Greater London and the six metropolitan counties in England , but this position was changed from 1 April 1986 , when the upper-tier authorities were abolished . |
| 14 | He said that there had recently been 102,000 complaints against British Gas . |
| 15 | High levels of nitrate can cause ‘ blue baby syndrome ’ ( infantile methaemoglobinaemia ) , which is potentially fatal ( see below : Government Advice ) , but there had only been 3,000 cases worldwide since 1945 , and 14 in the UK since 1950 . |
| 16 | Hitherto there had only been four or five types available in England . |
| 17 | There had only been one shot . |
| 18 | Yesterday there had only been one dress on display . |
| 19 | History argues that when Arabs and Israelis do not make peace they will make war : there have already been five and a half since Israel 's founding . |
| 20 | Since registration , there have already been eight examinations , all of which were passed with flying colours , at all times , a company representative or deputy has to be on call ready to answer any questions . |
| 21 | Gritstone is showing a bit of a renaissance these days — there have already been two new E8s this year — and it 's continuing to see plenty of action . |
| 22 | There have already been two attempted coups against him . |
| 23 | There have already been two incidents in a wood in Wales this year , where two red kites and five ravens were found poisoned , and one buzzard and two ravens were shot . |
| 24 | There have already been two murders . ’ |
| 25 | There have already been four drug related murders in South London this year , and more than seventy incidents involving firearms . |
| 26 | There have also been one or two apparently motiveless murders in Vienna these last few weeks which could be his work , though it 's less certain . ’ |
| 27 | The government has said it is willing to revise its policy on " Remote Area Dwellers " ( Bushmen and others ) , and there have also been two recent official gatherings to discuss such issues , in Namibia and in Botswana . |
| 28 | Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind the fact that the air squadrons of the Royal Naval Reserve have been especially effective and exceptionally well recruited and that there have even been one or two Harrier pilots in the reserve ? |
| 29 | His three sons are cathedral choristers : ‘ There have n't been three brothers together in the choir for about 12 years , ’ he says , with some pride . |
| 30 | Since the urban middle-class exodus to the countryside began in earnest in the 1950s there have typically been two issues over which such conflict has been generated : housing and the environment . |