Example sentences of "have been [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this latter respect , government policy ( or the threat of intervention ) would seem to be the most significant factor tending to remove authority over collective bargaining to the national confederations.9 Attempts to align the outcome of wage negotiations with macroeconomic policy objectives have been one factor which has tended to raise the level of bargaining and it has played a significant role at certain periods in countries such as Holland , Norway and Austria . |
| 2 | For some people their whole working lives so far have been one scheme to the next , never getting any really worthwhile training and never being paid a decent wage . |
| 3 | These demand changes have been one source of the escalating costs of voluntary and private residential child care and this escalating cost has , in a time of severe fiscal constraint , itself contributed to a further fall in the demand for contracted out places by local authorities . |
| 4 | To date there have been eight experiments , all but one of which used photons rather than protons . |
| 5 | ’ Up near Alexandra township , bordering on a swish white suburb , there have been seventeen hijackings recently . |
| 6 | ‘ To date this year there have been 172 bomb incidents , 54 fewer than in the same period last year . |
| 7 | Since then there have been 14 records comprising a total of c. 85 birds in six winters . |
| 8 | Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) . |
| 9 | Although recently extreme dates have been 14 August ( 1970 , Rye ) , and 1 May ( 1968 , Cuckmere ) , this species is most abundant from October to January . |
| 10 | There have been sixteen drug regulatory actions worldwide against triazolam since 1980 aimed at the manufacturer 's recommended doses . |
| 11 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 12 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 13 | The House will be interested to know that , in the six months since my hon. Friend last questioned me on the subject , there have been 992 call-outs from RAF Chivenor and 591 people have been assisted . |
| 14 | Since the formation of the system there have been eleven exchange rate realignments , the last one implemented in January 1987 ; ( b ) inducing a reduction of , and an increasing degree of convergence among members countries ' inflation rates ; ( c ) generating , as a result of ( a ) and ( b ) , a greater degree of real exchange rate predictability ; ( d ) encouraging lower and more convergent national money supply growth rates ; ( e ) reducing the variability of national inflation , money supply growth and interest rates . |
| 15 | There have been 47 cases of the cable chafing on the power steering pump pulley on the right-hand drive vehicles manufactured from May 1992 up to chassis number p818990 , but no reported accidents , the company said . |
| 16 | I mean I think to a , I think to a degree we always have been fifty sort of thing when the rock 'n' roll started to come over then again you see for we , we look little one . |
| 17 | There have been five proposals for the er chairman chairman 's position and nil proposals for the . |
| 18 | There have been five studies of the effects of marking to the market on index futures , of which only one ( Twite , 1990b ) has used the Cox , Ingersoll and Ross results . |
| 19 | Since then there have been five deaths as a result of the security situation , including four men shot by the security forces near Coalisland on 16 February . |
| 20 | There have been five occasions when the Man of the Match award went to a player on the losing side : David Houghton of Zimbabwe has been the unfortunate soul to be on the losing team twice . |
| 21 | Since we started there have been five escapes for which we accept responsibility . |
| 22 | There have been no breeding reports since 1945 although there have been five summer records of single birds in 1955 , 1964,1966,1971 and 1972 . |
| 23 | There have been 17 US presidents this century . |
| 24 | In the past 12 years , there have been 880 accidents on the road . |
| 25 | There have been four players with the same initial letter of their surname playing for a Test side both before and since , but there has only been four of the same letter on each side . |
| 26 | Since January there have been four bombings within the United States apparently linked with Islamic or Middle East matters . |
| 27 | The London Emergency Bed Service reports that this winter things have been four times as hard as last year , and my experience confirms this . |
| 28 | and then they say there 's a trip going round at the brewery , er you can either have the er twenty five minute trip or the , the forty minute trip , whichever you want , well of course everybody says the twenty five and then the rep always , it says oh well these fellas have been four times before so we stop in the bar and you can have what you want , spirits whatever you like and then the bucket comes out and it 's , it 's smashing |
| 29 | There have been four drugs related killings in the area this year . |
| 30 | There have been four attempts to grapple with these tensions through restructuring or internal reorganisation . |