Example sentences of "there [vb mod] [verb] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There ought to have been keys hanging by the door to the utility room , but they were n't there . |
| 2 | There may have been cases where the acquisition of the wrappers conferred no direct benefit on the Nestle Co. , but there must have been many cases where it did . |
| 3 | The high interest rates might well have depressed investment if other things had remained equal , but there may have been changes in other factors that helped to maintain investment : in other words , the I curve shifted to the right . |
| 4 | Police said there may have been plans to plant the bombs elsewhere in Calcutta to try to reignite Hindu-Moslem riots which hit India in December and January , claiming nearly 2,000 lives . |
| 5 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 6 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 7 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 8 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 9 | A CRE spokesman confirmed to The Scotsman that it had begun an official investigation ‘ which arises from our view that there may have been discrimination in some of the things being done by the education department of Strathclyde Regional Council . ’ |
| 10 | There may have been problems of mastery , of control , of appropriate letting go ; or an early refusal to let go as resistance to an over-persistent potty-training parent . |
| 11 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 12 | There may have been times during your working life when you have not , either knowingly or unwittingly , paid national insurance contributions . |
| 13 | Thus while those TANU members concerned to achieve effective communication for the purpose of education and development preferred the press to radio , whose full potential they failed to recognize , there may have been others who realized that radio had powers to reach people which TANU had not . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , but there may have been others . ’ |
| 15 | These finds suggest at least two methods of fishing , with line and net , and there may have been others . |
| 16 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 17 | A team creates a supportive atmosphere where people are happy to go at risk , say what they really think , develop one another 's ideas and commit to an agreed course of action even though there may have been differences of opinion . |
| 18 | There may have been queues in the streets when Derrida came to Oxford recently . |
| 19 | There may have been press briefings by regulatory bodies during and after the Blue Arrow inquiry which he said called into question their impartiality . |
| 20 | ‘ We have been monitoring the downward trend over the last 10 years , and our impression is that the decline is beginning to bottom out : there may have been 5m fewer loans last year , but the drop was 15m in 1991–92 . |
| 21 | But there may have been incidents where we have been involved . |
| 22 | There may have been complications or separation at birth and the mother may have never really felt completely bonded to the child . |
| 23 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |
| 24 | He did the same to the soldiers ' barracks and police stations ; there may have been time for the policemen to read seventy-five years ago but not today . |
| 25 | That Mr er did live at the flat erm with his wife , there may have been children but we did n't know for certain and that the previous night two male persons appeared to have been there . |
| 26 | Since a mother generally has a new baby every four and a half years , there may have been pressure on her to speed up each youngster 's training , to leave time to care for the latest addition to the family . |
| 27 | David Schramm , of the University of Chicago , along with Chris Hill from Fermilab , the particle-physics laboratory just outside Chicago , has recently suggested that there may have been transitions after the microwave background was emitted . |
| 28 | Except in very specific cases Sidonius 's attitudes and style encourage the reader to see continuity where there may have been disruption . |
| 29 | But there must have been cases were n't there ? |
| 30 | In that case there must have been genes controlling variation in caddis houses , for selection can not produce adaptations unless there are hereditary differences among which to select . |