Example sentences of "there [verb] been [adj] significant [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | whether there has been any significant change in the industrial distribution of new businesses and |
| 2 | In the meantime there had been two significant events which affected Mrs Kemp 's case . |
| 3 | There have been some significant developments in the last few years including the introduction of full-time DATEC courses , which are provided for South Wales by the West Glamorgan Institute of Higher Education . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 5 | They can not compete within the visible spectrum , but they will be highly competitive throughout the infrared and perhaps also in the ultraviolet and soft X-ray regions , where there have been several significant developments recently . |
| 6 | There have been several significant steps , as follows . |
| 7 | There have been three significant cases of the smooth transfer of power from the death of a civilian head of state to his successor . |