Example sentences of "[ex0] has [adv] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Across the whole of the NHS there has barely been a scratching of the surface . |
| 2 | The original money was quickly invested and there has since been a stream of rights issues , particularly from companies in Thailand where the fund is 37.8 per cent invested . |
| 3 | I try to turn on the lights but there has either been a power cut or the club 's generator has been switched off . |
| 4 | In many parts of the country there has clearly been a shift of settlement in Saxon times and the implication of this is that a number of Saxon settlements remain to be found , away from the medieval villages , in what are former open field areas . |
| 5 | Table 5.2 Volume of international bond issues by type ( $ billion ) The pattern of issuance in the bond markets has varied considerably over time , although there has generally been a predominance of banks , industrial companies and supranational organisations ( such as the World Bank ) . |
| 6 | ( ii ) Liability for negligence.Decisions of the courts show that there has generally been a reluctance to interpret a clause as excluding liability for negligence , unless clear words are used . |
| 7 | There has already been a switch of emphasis away from sheltered housing for the elderly to other groups in special need , and what money has been available has been targetted to those areas which have not been well served in the past ( peripheral housing estates , remote areas and less attractive small towns ) , or to developments offering very special facilities ( eg sheltered housing for the elderly deaf ) . |
| 8 | A stately home is selling off a herd of deer , and there has already been a stream of inquiries . |
| 9 | Dating back to the late 1960s when the announcement of the Wilson government Urban Aid programme followed swiftly on the heels of Enoch Powell 's predictions of rivers of blood flowing through British cities as a result of racial conflict , there has regularly been a connection between the fear of ( racially based ) civil unrest and the implementation of high profile symbolic palliatives for inner city malaise ( Sills , Taylor and Golding , 1988 ; Solomos , 1988 ) . |
| 10 | There has even been a reduction in Japan . |
| 11 | There has even been a hotel station . |
| 12 | There has also been a breakthrough in the breeding of soya beans ( 126 million acres are grown annually worldwide ) where resistance to damage by glyphosate has been genetically incorporated . |
| 13 | There has also been a change in mood about nationalization . |
| 14 | There has also been a change in the holiday habits of the Madeirans themselves , who used to retire to their summer villas at Monte or Santo da Serra to escape the heat or flocked to the rocky shoreline around Funchal to bathe every day . |
| 15 | So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre . |
| 16 | There has also been a change in art , and the art market . |
| 17 | Clearly these are still working groups , usually of type ( ii ) , with a manifesto , a periodical and exhibitions , but there has also been a change of some kind in their social relations , and this can best be understood by the second kind of analysis , of the proposed and actual relations with all those beyond the group . |
| 18 | There has also been a flurry of activity on ‘ degraded-core ’ phenomena . |
| 19 | There has also been a proposal to increase the term of copyright to the life of the author plus 70 years , although this had been subject to some controversy within the EC . |
| 20 | Over the same period there has also been a transformation in its geography . |
| 21 | At the same time that there has been a shift in the size and importance of manufacturing within the economy as a whole , there has also been a transformation in the geography of manufacturing within the country . |
| 22 | Outside London , there has also been a trend towards larger practices seeking to soak up the commercial work which remains in the provincial cities of England and Wales . |
| 23 | There has also been a degree of confidence among eurobond firms that regulations will not be altered without good reason and appropriate consultation . |
| 24 | There has also been a tendency to impose new curricula and policies without sufficient preparation of teachers and administrators . |
| 25 | Particularly impressive has been the major revival of the South East since the mid 1970s , but there has also been a return to strong growth in the other three regions of the South in the mid 1980s . |
| 26 | A mild winter has led to a drop off in sales of salt to local authorities and there has also been a reduction in the market for potash in Britain as a result of the uncertain future in farming . |
| 27 | The TGWU has shown interest in a merger on several occasions , and there has also been a recognition among militants within the N U A A W that successful and speedy strike action could only be brought about with the cooperation of the bulk milk tanker drivers whom the TGWU organizes . |
| 28 | There has also been a failure to update regulations in some jurisdictions , in line with modern requirements . |
| 29 | Not only has there been a serious questioning of the principle of the licence fee , but there has also been a reassessment of the idea of scarcity in the airwaves , the idea of equality of service to all , and of the need for regulations . |
| 30 | There has also been a drop in the number of cigarette smokers . |