Example sentences of "[adj] there have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called functional areas , such as marketing , production and personnel have given way to a more problem-centred approach , but within this there has been a notable decline in the significance accorded to industrial relations , and still more , to the field of personnel management . |
| 2 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 3 | One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism . |
| 4 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 5 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
| 6 | Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent . |
| 7 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 8 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 9 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 10 | Since the 1940s there has been a global transition in health , with a rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases . |
| 11 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 12 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 13 | Since the late 1970s there has been a marked tightening of the laws which regulate public order , public morality and porn in particular . |
| 14 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 15 | A package is already being worked out for you by our legal department which should soften the blow considerably , and after all there has been no lasting query raised against the quality of your work ; the suggestion that your ideas need checking — ’ |
| 16 | Since 1981 there have been no further issues of SDRs because the executive board of the IMF can not provide a consensus as to the need for a further issue of SDRs . |
| 17 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
| 18 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 19 | From 1958 there was a steady improvement in the quality of Britain 's rivers , but since 1980 there has been a net deterioration of 6 per cent . |
| 20 | However , over the period since 1986 there has been a noticeable move in these areas towards splitting double modules into two singles . |
| 21 | Since 1986 there has been a remarkable reduction , especially in the figure for the long-term unemployed . |
| 22 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
| 23 | Before 1977 there had been no formal ranking of the local authorities , and more than seventy had gained something from Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 24 | On Aug. 13 there had been a related wave of violent attacks by Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) . |
| 25 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 26 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
| 27 | compared to 1987 there has been a tremendous decrease . |
| 28 | Since 1961 there has been a 19 per cent decrease in the mortality rates for males aged 65 — 74 . |
| 29 | However , in the interest of brevity , I will my remarks to points A and B. Since nineteen seventy nine there 's been a major shift away from our industrial base towards service industries . |
| 30 | Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers . |