Example sentences of "there be [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
2 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
3 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
4 | Nor have there been many recent sample-survey investigations of the relationship between social class and educational attainment . |
5 | ‘ Have there been many women , Leo ? ’ |
6 | Not only have there been many important exhibitions held on these issues but many women artists have developed brave and challenging work . |
7 | Has there been such a restoration , since 1920 ? |
8 | Never before has there been such open abuse of power by those who are supposed to set standards for the people . |
9 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
10 | Never before has there been such a catalogue of successive shocks and scandals in the Royal Family , culminating now in the separation of Charles and Diana . |
11 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |
12 | ‘ Never has there been such a farce ’ |
13 | Never has there been such a sporting farce over a straightforward issue : Was the ball out of shape through natural causes ( Law 5.5 ) or had it been damaged deliberately ( Law 42.5 ) ? |
14 | Why has there been such a history of cross-dressing in films ? |
15 | First : why have there been such strong fluctuations in fertility in the last half-century , and are they likely to continue ? |
16 | Why has there been such a lamentable delay in the implementation of the RENAVAL programme ? |
17 | Apparently it was convenient for BR to say that , because , had there been such a high-speed line included in the Channel Tunnel Bill , it is possible that that Bill would have fallen . |
18 | Not since 1949 has there been such a chance to abolish blood sports and just 13 absent MPs blew it . |
19 | But Coun Wigley said he was in contact with a lot of local people and had there been such an incident he would have heard . |
20 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
21 | Nor has there been any direct challenge to the chairman . |
22 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
23 | Nor have there been any informal jolly gatherings when the daily toil of pressing the flesh is over : Mr Kinnock wandering back among the press party , glass of whisky in hand , letting his ( metaphorical ) hair down a little , tipping us just the hint of a wink that this is all just a great game . |
24 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
25 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
26 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
27 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
28 | Nor had there been any to the east of the water . |
29 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
30 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |