Example sentences of "there been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’
2 Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family .
3 Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ?
4 The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific .
5 Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project .
6 ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’
7 Had there been other questions Puddephat 's widow did n't want to talk about ?
8 Indeed , only in Lurgan and Dungannon has there been serious complaints about too much security recently .
9 Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition .
10 Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern .
11 The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets .
12 Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour .
13 Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader-board behind the home green .
14 Has there been exceptional wastage ?
15 After a moment she added , in an offhand tone , ‘ By the way , have there been any phone calls this week when I 've been out ? ’
16 Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade .
17 Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments .
18 ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded .
19 Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ?
20 ‘ Have there been any developments ? ’
21 Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone .
22 ‘ Have there been any claims ? ’
23 Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers .
24 Had there been any trouble . ’
25 Have there been any breaches of confidentiality or illegal use of information by search firms you have employed in the past ?
26 ( 7 ) Have there been any disputes between the seller and the lessor and/or the owners or occupiers of adjoining or neighbouring properties ?
27 First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note .
28 Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order .
29 With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ?
30 At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over .
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