Example sentences of "[noun sg] there have [been] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 2 | As a result there has been bitter criticism of the local authorities and much disappointment among the disabled and their families . |
| 3 | However , despite a varied programme there has been great difficulty in gathering support for the other functions and indeed the last one had to be cancelled . |
| 4 | During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun . |
| 5 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 6 | Though recent instruments like the new SZ zoom stereos are designed to be readily fitted to a range of different equipment there has been increasing demand in recent years for custom equipment and his has led to customer specific modular configurations for individual projects . |
| 7 | For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available . |
| 8 | For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution . |
| 9 | Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity . |
| 10 | In the Galloway there has been strong discrimination against red , to the extent that red animals have been falsely maligned as ‘ poor doers ’ , and today the red varieties probably have Devon , South Devon , Red Poll or Shorthorn blood . |
| 11 | Notwithstanding problems of this kind there has been undoubted improvement in VDU design and it has been speculated that trade union pressure for high design standards has been a major stimulus to companies marketing their products on the basis of user acceptability . " |
| 12 | In the area of assessment there has been considerable debate in recent years among Catholic teachers . |
| 13 | Since early morning there has been intermittent drumming in different parts of the village and the echo rolls round the valley like the stifled rumblings of a caged lion . |
| 14 | In the past there has been considerable dispute between teachers and their employers over the teachers ' role in the collecting of dinner money and the supervision of children during the mid-day break . |
| 15 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 16 | Despite the setbacks before the Uprising there had been growing recognition of PLO leadership in the territories . |
| 17 | This is one reason there has been rampant speculation about foreign involvement in the bombings . |
| 18 | Early in the project there had been considerable discussion among the development officers and their supervisor about the ending of the project , and how the care of on-going clients was to be continued after the withdrawal of the development officers . |
| 19 | has responded to those by , for example , over this year there has been closed circuit television at one of the Park and Rides — I think it 's Thornhill — in consultation with the Police , and the Police have told us that that has reduced the number of crimes that have occurred and we have put |
| 20 | But in our century there have been British coalition governments in 1915 , 1922 and 1940–1945 , and governments that existed by tacit agreement between parties in 1910–1915 and 1977–1979 . |
| 21 | Apart from these four principal strategies , there is one further experiment in Buxtehude over whose implementation there has been considerable controversy . |
| 22 | At the same time there has been strong pressure from MPs to allow the House of Commons to play a more effective role in these matters . |
| 23 | Widespread complaints of poor management and excessive service charges led to the establishment … [ of ] the " Nugee Committee " … at the same time there has been ever-increasing concern with the difficulties which confront leaseholders in selling leases whose outstanding periods have decreased significantly since their grant . |
| 24 | However in the mid 1970 's a position detection scheme which used the motor windings as sensors was proposed ( Frus and Kuo , 1976 ; Jufer , 1976 ) , and since that time there has been steady development of the basic idea . |
| 25 | ‘ I was under the impression there had been full consultation and changes had been made in the plans to suit the buses , ’ she said . |