Example sentences of "there have [be] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently there have been criticisms of the balance between these two areas and , on occasions , the GAO has been accused of neglecting its more traditional audit responsibilities in the area of financial compliance and regularity . |
| 2 | I have agreed with the Hon. Member for Cunninghame , North that there have been criticisms by the Scottish Consumer Council as to information about bus services . |
| 3 | There have been accidents during transportation , which have caused serious pollution . |
| 4 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 5 | There have been snags over the asking price of £1million , a record for a goalkeeper . |
| 6 | As a result , there have been changes to land-clearance contracts , including the replacement of grasses by leguminous species that provide a better protective cover and enhance the nitrogen content of the soil . |
| 7 | The law gives dividing lines , but there have been changes over time . |
| 8 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 9 | Thus there have been changes over time in patterns of support between generations , but these are not necessarily a result of individuals ' changing beliefs and values about family responsibilities . |
| 10 | In Britain , too , there have been changes of emphasis . |
| 11 | Since the National Assistance Act 1948 replaced the Poor Law institutions with local authority residential homes , there have been changes of emphasis . |
| 12 | However , there have been changes of contrast and changes of detail on time scales from years to days , and for at least 100 years it has been widely realized that we are seeing the tops of richly coloured clouds that cover the entire planet . |
| 13 | There have been changes at Naddle , too . |
| 14 | Crimes of violence comprise less than 4 per cent of recorded crime , and while crimes of violence have risen rapidly in numbers in the post-war period there have been changes in the pattern of such offences . |
| 15 | ‘ The audit report is signed by the firm and not the individual partner , and therefore we believe that a higher level of independence is not demonstrated where the same name appears on the audit report year on year , whether or not there have been changes in the composition of the audit team . ’ |
| 16 | New forms of journalism have developed , there have been changes in printing techniques , changes in ownership , and even changes in perceptions of the role of the newspaper within society . |
| 17 | There have been changes in employment protection and trade union law , and in relevant social security benefits . |
| 18 | If there have been changes in the journal coverage of the Science Citation Index over the period , such that some members of this limited set were not scanned prior to 1970 , say , then such earlier theses would show a lower frequency of citations in general , and the first citations of an author 's thesis could be missed , thus artificially increasing the average latency period . |
| 19 | As some departments within Glenpatrick works move onto shift working , there have been changes in the manufacturing activities resulting in the appointment of three shift managers . |
| 20 | We fully accept that there have been changes in technique during this time , as described earlier , and as table 1 shows , in all sutured ileoanal anastomosis some form of mucosectomy was performed . |
| 21 | There have been changes in the block grant from central government ; rate-capping ; the abolition of the Greater London Council ; the forced introduction of greater tendering ; and changes in local authority finance . |
| 22 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 23 | Naturally there have been pockets of Tory resistance in Labour strongholds , just as there are pockets of Labour resistance in the South . |
| 24 | No one knows exactly how many eligible people there are , because the last firm data comes from the 1981 census ; there have been extrapolations from those figures , but inevitably there is an element of guesswork . |
| 25 | There have been teams from abroad , probably having heard about it when they or their friends attended colleges and universities in Bradford or Leeds . |
| 26 | It means that necessarily there have been variations in people 's need for support from their kin , and in the capacity of kin to provide it . |
| 27 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 28 | there have been experiments with 30 km/h zones in an attempt to win safety gains inexpensively . |
| 29 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 30 | From time to time there have been limits to the amount that councils can spend per house ( the ‘ cost yardstick ’ ) and minimum standards have been established since the 1967 recommendations of the Parker Morris Committee . |