Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [pron] have [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Of course there 's been a lot of public controversy over the proposals for hospital trusts and fund-holding general practices , that 's part of the job . |
| 2 | Of course it had been a silly question , but why had she been so cross ? |
| 3 | Idealogically of course it 's been a battle of Left and Right the Right won , we 've had a return a resserection of the 'Hang Em , Flog Em' Brigade some ugly xenophobia at times and of course multipule attacks on the Media . |
| 4 | But a desire to be fair , a wish to be absolutely certain , and an understandable reluctance to accuse someone of perfidy who has been a friend of mine for six difficult years made me pull the telephone back to my mouth . |
| 5 | Over her nine years of life there 's been a serious build-up of fluid on her chest . |
| 6 | Yet throughout her period of office there has been a strong authoritarian tendency . |
| 7 | yeah it 'll , it 'll assess them up until the fourteenth and fifteenth of April and it wo n't take into consideration there 's been a recall after that date . |
| 8 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 9 | For example there has been a recent change in the proposals of British Coal in the manner of transportation of this material onto the tip and the manner in which it is tipped and handled . |
| 10 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 11 | Mr said , I advise people to check in case there has been a mistake . |
| 12 | In addition there had been a positive international response , including a US$400,000,000 World Bank emergency loan , to the June earthquake [ see pp. 37521-22 ] . |
| 13 | In addition there had been a report on June 30 that the Supreme Council had changed the law on the status of deputies , including a provision for annulling a deputy 's mandate if his or her activity tended to hinder the development of an independent democratic state . |
| 14 | In addition there has been a growth in the promotion of tourism , which with its low pay , seasonal employment , and upwardly spiralling speculative investments , has also brought pressure upon people to leave the land . |
| 15 | In addition there has been a detailed examination of corporate behaviour in the North Sea oilfields ( Carson 1981 ) and transnational pharmaceutical corporations ( Braithwaite 1983 ) . |
| 16 | You aroused an interest for me in literature which has been a resource to me for the rest of my life and a source of real enjoyment . |
| 17 | In fact it has been a dazzling success , by almost every measure . |
| 18 | ‘ In fact it 's been a great few weeks for me . |
| 19 | In fact there have been a lot of famous women gardeners and not-so-famous women gardeners . |
| 20 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 21 | In fact there has been a radical shake up and I 'm confident we can do a much better job this time . |
| 22 | In fact there has been a complete census in the first year of every decade since 1801 ( excepting 1941 ) . |
| 23 | In spite of the improvement which followed his rest before Christmas there has been a recurrence of abdominal symptoms . |
| 24 | Even so , I thought on occasion there had been a loss ; nothing necessarily to do with oxygen starvation but just as a result of the experience , the shock of his cold journey , slipping away beneath the grey lid of ice ( and perhaps , I told myself in later years , it was only a loss of ignorance , a loss of folly , and so no bad thing ) . |
| 25 | To date there has been a considerable amount of research into the organisational and employee implications of introducing new technology . |
| 26 | For North it has been a disappointing season and Saturday 's 57-run defeat summed up their form this year . |
| 27 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 28 | By daylight it had been a sculptured shaft fluted with runnels of light and darkness , withdrawing stage by stage in charmed proportion , shedding weight and gaining impetus as it soared . |
| 29 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |