Example sentences of "[adv] there have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , perhaps there had been a second bank-book , after all ? |
| 2 | Perhaps there had been a second confrontation after all and another loss of control . |
| 3 | Hitherto there have been no real owners . |
| 4 | ‘ If only there had been a little bit more flexibility on the United States side I think it could have been successfully accomplished . ’ |
| 5 | But before he did so there had been a fractional hesitation . |
| 6 | Unlike previous years , however , the significance of the Iowa contests was reduced by the fact that neither of Bush 's two challengers ( Buchanan and former Ku Klux Klansman David Duke ) contested the caucus , whilst amongst the Democrats it had long been accepted that the contest would be won by Tom Harkin , one of the state 's representatives in the Senate , and so there had been a minimal amount of campaigning . |
| 7 | Over the past ten years or so there has been a great deal of innovative thinking and impressive empirical investigation in our field and the theory 1 have been reviewing has played its part . |
| 8 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 9 | Even so there have been no easy solutions to monitoring the country 's public expenditure . |
| 10 | Thus there has been a net gain in jobs from the small-firm sector , in the USA at least . |
| 11 | While outer differences did not matter much , deeper causes of conflict might exist and already there had been the disastrous schism on doctrinal grounds between the Church of the East and the Church of the West . |
| 12 | Before 1970 , my research on general relativity had concentrated mainly on the question of whether or not there had been a big bang singularity . |
| 13 | Nevertheless there has been a slow but perceptible change in the basis of such control , which is no longer in the hands of particular landowning families and individuals as such , but part of the duties of the office to which they have been elected . |
| 14 | It is this phase where there are many failures because the size of task being addressed is large ; normally there has been a formal specification of the work to be done , and the technologist has not the experience nor the qualifications to carry the work through . |
| 15 | Since the third century B.C. there had been a Latin Hellenism , never identical with the Greek , but never separable from it . |
| 16 | ‘ … but always there has been a hidden canker , which has grown with the years until it is stifling me . ’ |
| 17 | Romania 's Interior Minister said yesterday there had been a counter-revolutionary plot by pro-Ceausescu forces but the situation was now stable despite sporadic shooting in the capital and other towns . |
| 18 | Nationally there has been a 12 per cent drop . |
| 19 | Probably there had been an earlier Atlantic which came to an end with the Caledonian orogeny , but this was the beginning of the ocean that we have today . |
| 20 | Probably there has been no real change . |
| 21 | In the pocket also there had been a clean handkerchief with a small card caught between its folds . |
| 22 | And yet quite clearly there have been no significant increases in the productivity of Chinese agriculture and certainly no large scale industrialization . |
| 23 | Yes , similarly there has been an enormous change in the treatment in myocardial infarction in the last few years , not only with angioplasty , but also with thrombolysis : 70%-80% of general physicians now use thrombolysis routinely . |
| 24 | Although insignificant on the map , it has long been a magnet drawing folk from the Dales on repeated visits ; latterly there has been a growing influx of tourists and walkers from outside the county to see the magnificent waterfall of Hardraw Force . |
| 25 | Rather there had been a subtle unravelling of what had once been a more integrated pattern of recreation . |
| 26 | THE first day of Yorkshire 's only County Championship match of the season at Middlesbrough was washed out yesterday but not before there had been a major surprise at rain-soaked Acklam Park . |
| 27 | So far there 's been a poor response to their appeals for information , and they still have n't established a motive for the killing . |
| 28 | So far there have been no serious incidents as a result of lights that have been out of action , but there is a possibility of accidents occurring . ’ |
| 29 | Now there had been a great shortage of messages from heaven for a very long time . |
| 30 | And erm oh for many years now there 's been a great interest in consistency in sentencing . |