Example sentences of "[verb] there have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Travel agents say there 's been a last minute rush for holidays abroad … with the weather here looking distinctly dismal … |
| 2 | Local people say there 's been a long-standing campaign for the site to be made safe . |
| 3 | COMMUNITY workers say there has been a big increase in the number of young homeless people as winter sets in . |
| 4 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 5 | They found there had been no unjustifiable delay and said time had been needed to assemble evidence . |
| 6 | He was no longer particularly interested in the work of younger writers ; this was partly because he no longer felt confident in his judgments about contemporary writing but , at a more general level , he believed there had been a profound falling off in the standard of both literature and criticism since the Second World War . |
| 7 | His widow Diane says there 's been a terrible injustice . |
| 8 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 9 | Even in 1964 we commented , ‘ For as long as many of us care to remember there has been a big Healey in the price lists . |
| 10 | National statistics show there has been a general decline in Britain 's urban population . |
| 11 | You can see there 's been a wee bit of damage to that ligament just where it goes down over the top of that bone . |
| 12 | But Mr Bowman said Home Office figures showed there had been a 43 per cent reduction in crime by under-14s . |
| 13 | The present occupants did not realize there had been a famous ex-occupant and were , says Herman , ‘ not too pleased when they found out ’ . |
| 14 | We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far . |
| 15 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 16 | Goff and another , the National Industrial Relations Court ruled there had been a constructive dismissal . |
| 17 | All of a sudden , she realised there had been a collective intake of breath and that everyone around her was staring at the monitors . |
| 18 | The Standard says Hoddle 's number two John Gorman will join him at Chelsea , but Swindon Town insist there 's been no formal approach for either of them . |
| 19 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 20 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 21 | Erm but erm er I , I mean there 's been a double turn in , in fact . |
| 22 | Well , Witcher thinks there 's been a nuclear disaster and that we 're the only survivors . ’ |
| 23 | Suppose there had been no other likely defaulters in Anangel . |
| 24 | Suppose there had been no mammoth hi-jacking at the end of May ? |
| 25 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 26 | Was she a fool to hope there had been a deeper meaning in that fierce command ? |
| 27 | Regarding effect on lifestyle , 154 ( 36% ) sufferers felt there had been a great deal or fair amount of effect ( 55 ( 45% ) men and 99 ( 34% ) women ) . |
| 28 | A health spokesman stressed there had been no reported deaths — and said parents should continue having their children vaccinated . |
| 29 | ‘ Everywhere we 've gone there 's been a tremendous feeling of warmth shown us . |
| 30 | QUOTE : EVERYWHERE we 've gone there 's been a tremendous feeling of warmth shown us . |