Example sentences of "there have been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why should there have been such friction with the Nazareans in Jerusalem , some of whom had known Jesus personally and were certainly closer to him than Paul ever was ? |
| 2 | There have been many peace rallies many times before in Northern Ireland , the significance of today 's not the numbers , a thousand or so , but who they were . |
| 3 | We have been aware for some years that the relational model and relational database systems have not been able to represent some real-world concepts and activities , and there have been many papers and conferences devoted to the study of extensions and refinements to the original model of Codd ( 1970 ) . |
| 4 | There have been many meetings and there are many programmes under discussion . |
| 5 | There have been many claims that Mrs Thatcher has shifted the agenda of British politics . |
| 6 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
| 7 | In the modern world , democracy has often been perceived by liberals as a threat or potential threat to individual freedom , and there have been many warnings about the tyranny of the majority and the tyranny of public opinion . |
| 8 | There have been many disasters along the road , Yorkshire puddings you could sole your shoes with , burnt offerings of several varieties , a pat that even my dog would n't eat and last Christmas a chocolate log that disintegrated , the proud little Santa on top sinking without trace in a sea of chocolate gunge . |
| 9 | Since the introduction of the stored program concept , there have been many developments in the design of general-purpose digital computers , but only two can be described as vital omissions from the computer described in the previous section . |
| 10 | And of course there have been many moments when English art was very important on the Continent indeed . |
| 11 | But it is important to state that although in recent years in Britain , there have been many service innovations whose aim has been to improve the home or community care of elderly mentally frail people ( see for example Age Concern England , l983 ) , unfortunately most of these schemes have either not been systematically evaluated ( often because they have been very small in scale ) , or — if they have — results have not been widely disseminated . |
| 12 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 13 | There have been many times when I could n't write . |
| 14 | McGahern : ‘ There have been many times when I could n't write ’ |
| 15 | There have been many variants , but one of the most extensive and thorough applications of this principle has been at Bijlmermeer in south-east Amsterdam . |
| 16 | There have been many criticisms of the Chicago School but this body of work still has a great deal to teach us . |
| 17 | It 's written yes well supposedly there there have been many criticisms about it |
| 18 | There have been many experiments demonstrating the validity of this principle and exploring detailed variables such as the timing and quality of feedback . |
| 19 | Indeed , there have been many Government statements . |
| 20 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
| 21 | Despite the fact that there have been many reports describing the central effects of neuropeptides on gastric and pancreatic secretion , there has been only one previous report of the effects of a centrally acting peptide on biliary secretion . |
| 22 | There have been many wars here . |
| 23 | To date , there have been many projects and ideas that have benefited from CIRE funding . |
| 24 | By contrast , Richard Smith and David Thomson have argued , on the basis of long-term demographic evidence , that forms of retirement have existed throughout history and ( particularly if one excludes the high birth-rate nineteenth century ) that there have been many periods in which a simple dependency ratio of the elderly to the non-elderly population has been high . |
| 25 | There have been many periods in the past when the degree of concentration has been significantly large ( Table 4. 1 ) and when such degrees of concentration have generated calls for inquiries . |
| 26 | None the less , since antiquity there have been many efforts to describe features of the world , including the social , in quantitative terms , efforts which began to assume an even greater urgency and consequentiality with the rise of the modern nation state and its requirements for an accurate accounting of its resources . |
| 27 | Already there have been many studies of the effect of unemployment on health ; do they give useful results ? |
| 28 | There have been many studies of selection by molluscs on cyanogenic and acyanogenic morphs of white clover under laboratory or other controlled conditions . |
| 29 | There have been many studies which identified a mid-career crisis in managers . |
| 30 | There have been many studies of modern communications institutions within one explicitly ( functional ) sociological perspective . |