Example sentences of "there have been [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There have been accidents aplenty on this cluttered but charming course . |
2 | There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history . |
3 | There have been port stations , waterfront interchanges between the railways and the water-borne transport of river , lake , and sea : in the United States , New Bedford , New Haven , and East Boston ; in Canada , Prince Rupert , Vancouver , Montreal ; in Britain , Holyhead , Folkestone Harbour , and Portsmouth Harbour . |
4 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
5 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |
6 | For example , there have been government efforts to influence the price of land and to curb land speculations government intervention in the money market , and government manipulation of the costs and benefits of various statuses in the housing market by means of taxation and social security policy . |
7 | There have been presentation graphics programs around for several years now in the PC marketplace ; programs such as Harvard Graphics , Lotus Freelance , Daverelle , Genigraphics and 35mm Express , all merrily turning out graphs , charts and text for use as presentation aids . |
8 | By contrast , although there have been disagreements Israel 's bond with the United States has been rock-solid , built upon agreement ‘ concerning the nature and extent of the Soviet threat to the region ’ . |
9 | The Ulster ceasefire was not unexpected — there have been Christmas truces in previous years . |
10 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
11 | There have been personality clashes , difference of opinion on degrees of centralisation and devolution , but , quite apart from successes in individual subject projects , it has been shown that in at least one instance , a local curriculum committee can be made to work productively , a model well worth studying . |
12 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
13 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
14 | There have been coal stations and milk stations . |
15 | This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table . |
16 | There have been racecourse stations , such as Newbury Racecourse and Aintree . |
17 | Airline pilots commonly have difficulty in sleeping properly after long flights , especially when there have been time-zone changes . |
18 | In Teheran , there have been power cuts , and even basic food stuffs have been short . |