Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [ex0] have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The allegation that there has been undue secrecy seems untrue . |
| 2 | However , in recent years a blitz on such companies has been mounted with the result that there has been some improvement . |
| 3 | Pollution largely ended the shellfish industry although there have been recent attempts to revive it . |
| 4 | In the 1970s the Labour government supported a private member 's Bill which took over an item which would have been included in its own programme if there had been sufficient parliamentary time . |
| 5 | Tutorial Classes continued to be seen as the most important element in the WEA 's programme and there had been some increase in their provision in recent years . |
| 6 | Without warning the air was split by a high pitched banshee wail , rising and falling on a sliding scale of pain that would have made the slates fall off the roof if there had been any . |
| 7 | Biogeography provides the most obvious area in which the significance of human activity should be particularly demanding of study and there have been two particular themes , albeit increasingly related , which have proceeded in this direction . |
| 8 | An inadequate system has been made worse by the Government 's decision that it will no longer accept responsibility for collecting maintenance unless there have been irregular payments . |
| 9 | The overwhelming priority has been given to teacher placements in industry whilst there have been excellent examples of reciprocal placement programmes placing business people into schools . |
| 10 | The last faint hope that there had been some mistake died . |
| 11 | So great is the slaughter that there has been enormous public concern and since 1978 my colleagues and I have studied the effect of road casualties on the toads that breed in the lake at Llandrindod Wells , in mid-Wales . |
| 12 | Three-quarters felt that there had been little feedback following its presentation . |
| 13 | It was the first time in the campaign that there had been any rapport between the embattled figures on the platform and the assembled press and television correspondents . |
| 14 | It is rumoured that the project is backed by an international mining consortium and there have been recent reports of attempts to enlist Yanomami from the area for military service . |
| 15 | One reason why there can be no simple answer to the question whether there has been irresolvable conflict between science and religion is that the answer may well depend on which of these types of explanation is favored . |
| 16 | It is not concerned with the merits of the instruments but rather with whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to the legislation in that it : ( a ) imposes a tax or fee on the public or a charge on the public revenue ; ( b ) is made pursuant of an enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts ; ( c ) purports to have retrospective effect when there is no express authority in the enabling statute ; ( d ) has been unduly delayed in publication or laying before Parliament ; ( e ) has come into operation before being laid before Parliament and there has been unjustifiable delay in informing the Speaker ; ( f ) is of doubtful vires or makes some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the enabling statute ; ( g ) calls for any special reason of form or content , for elucidation ; ( h ) is defective in its drafting . |
| 17 | … the Act has facilitated progress and there has been some encouragement of home teaching programmes through educational support grants . |
| 18 | If an Act is challenged on the basis that there have been procedural defects during its passage through Parliament , will the courts look behind the formal words of enactment and inquire whether the requirements of the common law have been satisfied ? |
| 19 | For example , a statement by the vendor that there have been various disputes by the employees completely undermines the warranty . |
| 20 | He was the product of an actual family experience ; his father had fought for the South in the Civil War and there had been some decline from gentility , but he was as much a product of family myth . |
| 21 | There is a cuddly look about the new Scottish Office ministerial team and there have been unconfirmed sightings of the word ‘ consensus ’ . |
| 22 | Erm other places to watch out for in Baysford the work is continuing on David Lane and Southwick Street the crossing there is closed diversions are in place and there have been long delays in the area there so unless you have to I would n't . |
| 23 | There was an emphasis on the generation of female employment as well as on the general need for diversification but there had been little development by the outbreak of war . |
| 24 | What happens to the grief reaction when there has been little warning of the impending death , or for various reasons , where there has been no opportunity to be involved in the preparation process ? |
| 25 | This index compares equal numbers of elements , and it gives a better postcranial/cranial comparison than the preceding index unless there has been preferential destruction of the jaws . |
| 26 | Very little work has been done in this field but there has been sufficient to reveal that the refinement of economic theory ( especially in terms of mathematical sophistication ) is akin to fashioning scalpels to cut through jungle when it comes to the real world of policy-making [ Graham , 1975 ] . |
| 27 | At least for the period 1980 to 1984 , WIRS fails to offer substantiating evidence that there has been any growth in the use of this form of temporary worker . |
| 28 | It is difficult to find evidence that there has been massive deterioration in the morality and behaviour of the common people , in comparison to the preindustrial work . |
| 29 | Thus the Treasury in its evidence to the Wilson Committee stated that ‘ there is no evidence that there have been real constraints on the supply of funds to industry . ’ |
| 30 | It is hardly surprising that Gamble concludes that " there is only limited evidence that there have been significant discontinuities in economic policy-making caused by the adversary positions adopted by the parties " . |