Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's an ambulance there , looks like there 's been a crash , a bad one as well |
| 2 | Peter Brooks , for instance , insists that there has been a metafictional dimension to the novel since its very beginnings but now finds a new degree of emphasis among postmodernists , ‘ a greater explicitness in the abandonment of mimetic claims , a more overt staging of narrative 's arbitrariness and lack of authority , a more open playfulness about fictionality ’ ( Brooks 1984 : 317 ) . |
| 3 | Derek Malcolm , The Guardian 's film critic , agrees that there has been a gradual shift in perception and suggests it began as movie moguls realised women were no longer being ‘ taken ’ to the movies by their menfolk , hot on the trail of Rambo . |
| 4 | Swan agrees that there has been an embarrassing decline in portraiture , which he ascribes partly to its labour-intensiveness : ‘ Someone like Millais was earning the equivalent of two to three million a year . |
| 5 | Since its launch last November , says that there has been a good deal of interest in the scheme from all sectors of the industry and added , ‘ Through controlled and managed expansion the benefits in terms of new business to the Company are tremendous ’ . |
| 6 | He says that there has been a lot of overseas interest , from as far away as Japan . |
| 7 | He says that there 's been a revival in the popularity of stuffed animals . |
| 8 | The NRA has also published The quality of rivers , canals and estuaries in England and Wales : a report of the 1990 survey , which confirms that there has been a ‘ real and significant deterioration ’ in the quality of some rivers since 1985 . |
| 9 | Data collected by the RIBA shows that there has been a gradual fall in profit margins dating back to the early 1970s . |
| 10 | The information contained in the above tables shows that there has been a long-term trend this century for the proportion of non-manual jobs to increase , and of manual jobs to decrease . |
| 11 | The evidence , as expressed in opinion polls held in Denmark since the referendum , is to the contrary ; it shows that there has been a hardening of the ‘ no ’ vote . |
| 12 | The final column reveals that there has been a continued accumulation of assets by the UK , but the variability of these net transactions is clearly considerable , ranging from £0.7 billion to £14.3 billion . |
| 13 | Macklin acknowledges that there has been a learning curve , particularly with regard to the siting of base stations where there has been some duplication of coverage . |
| 14 | I hope that the hon. Gentleman recognises that there has been a major expansion . |
| 15 | Which , of course , momentarily , it did : ‘ Two weeks , ’ she boldly and brightly continued , breaking the trance like stillness with a frisky movement of her head and braceleted right arm , ‘ yes , two weeks , in Kyoto and Osaka , it should be quite fascinating , quite an opportunity to see a completely different culture , of course it relates to our own work at the Institute in a very particular way , it seems that there has been a considerable amount of research done in the department we are visiting on the problems of adoption and stepparents . |
| 16 | And in looking at the experience not merely of Asia , but also of Africa , what becomes increasingly apparent is that most development strategies have tended _ particularly when we look at technical change — erm have tended to bypass women , or in many cases one also notes that the impact of technical change has been detrimental to poor women , and examples of this can be found , for instance , in terms of adoption of certain kinds of technique , like mechanisation of rice processing in parts of Asia , where one finds that there has been a large scale displacement of landless women . |
| 17 | First , where it appears that there has been a breach of the statutory provisions , he or she must make a report to this effect to the Prime Minister . |
| 18 | Finch ( 1989:290–1 ) asserts that there has been a progressive growth in the routine surveillance of political ‘ subversives ’ over the past decade . |
| 19 | Each step should be simple and complete in itself — preferably with some indication that successful completion has been achieved , for example the appearance or the change of colour of a signal light , or the noise of a motor starting or a change of pressure which indicates that there has been a change in the flow of some material . |
| 20 | The empirical evidence in the earlier sections certainly indicates that there has been a structural shift — though its causes and its form may be disputed — in UK manufacturing . |
| 21 | Patterson 's evidence plainly indicates that there has been a gradual swing away from front values in the past century or so . |
| 22 | The term ‘ developmental ’ here indicates that there has been a failure to acquire the relevant linguistic skill ( the use of spoken language , reading or writing ) at the normal rate , during the course of development . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 24 | It means that there has been a demand for an investigation into an incident with a bomb . |
| 25 | In an extreme case , the LEA may intervene — if it considers that there has been a breakdown of discipline at the school . |
| 26 | Mr Morrison admits that it has been a ‘ very , very uphill struggle ’ . |
| 27 | Clotilde will never marry me if she learns that I have been a … friend of Irene Adler . |
| 28 | The saga still continues but there has been a severe clampdown on the activities of babyfood companies , and undoubtedly millions of Third World babies ' lives have been saved . |
| 29 | Interestingly , in the light of increasing central ‘ controls ’ during the late 1970s and the 1980s , Alexander ( 1982b , p. ix ) , in what could be interpreted as a swing back towards an agency model approach , argues that there has been a ‘ decline in the autonomy and independence of local government … [ which ] constitutes a threat to the nature of our democracy and to the sensitivity and effectiveness of our public services ’ . |
| 30 | The European Commissioner for the environment has said that he believes that there has been a failure to carry out a proper environmental impact assessment . |