Example sentences of "[conj] there have been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 2 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 3 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 4 | I said that there had been substantially more submissions than the number he gave . |
| 5 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 6 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 7 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 8 | but the fact that there 's been so much debate |
| 9 | One consequence of this approach is that there has been comparatively little research examining the beliefs and attitudes of older people about their health . |
| 10 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 11 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 12 | Erm I would say however that there has been far more consistency about the view taken of the need for greenbelt protection on the part of the bodies and individuals I represent than has been shown by the two planning authorities judging from all the changes that they have propagated . |
| 13 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 14 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 15 | It is surprising therefore , that there has been so little public interest in this country in proposals to release into the environment living , man-made creatures . |
| 16 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 17 | The virtual demise of modern constitutional history as a subject of study has meant that there has been hardly any analysis of the major constitutional questions which arise out of the crisis — what role did the king play , what are the relative rights of the Prime Minister vis-à-vis his Cabinet , what is the relative importance of party and of the ‘ national interest ’ , and what justification can there be for a peacetime coalition government ? |
| 18 | I believe that there has been too much attention to ordering of content — which is an easy job — and too little in considering the process — which is a very difficult one . |
| 19 | The use of the leap-frog appeal has been surrounded by considerable caution and the very stringent conditions to be met before such an appeal can be taken has meant that there have been very few such appeals . |
| 20 | Well er as I say the position of the Parish Council the fact that there have been so many objections are fully reported in the committee papers today . |
| 21 | Despite research into some aspects of the error propagation issue in spatial data processing ( e.g. Blakemore 1984 ; Chrisman 1984 ; Drummond 1987 ; Goodchild and Dubuc 1987 ; Walsh et al. 1987 ) , Burrough ( 1986:103 ) correctly points out that ‘ It is remarkable that there have been so few studies on the whole problem of residual variation and how errors arise , or are created and propagated in geographical information processing , and what the effects of these errors might be on the results of studies made . ’ |
| 22 | There is , however , always a danger that her critics are really writing about themselves , defending their own positions , so there has been very little constructive criticism . |
| 23 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 24 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 25 | The route has been described to death and there have been so many accounts of the leading objects , I am inclined to be silent till I reach some spots where fewer pens have essayed to give to the world their portraiture , allowing the sketches engraved to leave my mite of tribute alike to the noble natural architecture of the Isle of Caves and the art treasures in the Isle of Ionic Crosses . |
| 26 | To date , the number of cases taken in this fashion are very few and there has been very little guidance from the Courts as to the ambit of the provision . |
| 27 | If it looks like there 's been very little response then we 'll probably keep you going for yet another month after that . |
| 28 | Oh dear , I thought that was funny yes cos there 's been so much |
| 29 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 30 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |