Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] there have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think there are various strategies that you can adopt with children , I think the first and most obvious is work through the educational system , through schools and there 's been many excellent school 's programmes developed ! |
| 2 | The University has been fortunate in attracting high quality staff to fill new lectureship posts although there has been some difficulty in filling senior posts , particularly in business and management , which is an area of acute national shortage . |
| 3 | Children who are disabled cause an extra financial burden to their parents and there have been some moves to acknowledge this . |
| 4 | Mr Barber said : ‘ In the East Anglian Customs and Excise region there have been no arrests in relation to these imports but there have been some seizures of alcohol at boot sales in Norfolk and Suffolk . ’ |
| 5 | It is a controversial establishment because it is entirely staffed by NSA personnel and there has been much local discussion as to whether the station operates in the interests of Australia or only America . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Generally , however , discipline has not been a problem between them in recent years and there have been some pulsating contests . |
| 8 | There are a variety of sources ranging from the Urban programme of the Department of the Environment to charities but there has been much uncertainty about funding , the Legal Aid Annual Reports regularly referring to the financial problems of particular centres . |
| 9 | Since its construction almost thirty years before there had been little capital investment . |
| 10 | In the UK , different local authorities have developed a range of renewal policies but there has been little attempt to evaluate their effect in the wider urban context . |
| 11 | Both had been having affairs and there had been several brief separations . |
| 12 | There were more seagulls than there had been that morning , on the cliffs and on the sea itself . |
| 13 | He led the way down the gangplank complaining vaguely to his friends that there had been some disgusting favouritism somewhere . |
| 14 | In the 1990s there were many more at hand to help them escape , people who might have been more profitably employed than in these negative exercises if there had been fewer who needed their services . |
| 15 | Although the wife , as the other trustee of the conveyance , should have received notice of any incumbrance ( see Dearle v Hall ( 1828 ) 3 Russ 1 ) , it is as well if the conveyance to the wife and new husband contains a recital that the property is free from incumbrances ( assuming this to be so ) to stop any requisitions on a later sale and also to direct the parties ' attention to any incumbrances if there have been such . |
| 16 | Nobody knew there were any in the loch but then we only got the one and it would not surprise me if he had not eaten all the others if there had been any others that is . |
| 17 | ‘ We have been waiting for grants but there has been some debate about whether croquet is a sport because of the pace it 's played at . ’ |
| 18 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |
| 19 | Ironically , it was a track which Lauda had always opposed on safety grounds and there had been much discussion about the Ring 's lack of safeguards and medical access ( the track is so long , – kilometres , that marshals and safety equipment were not only widely scattered but often whole stretches of the track , such as that where Niki 's car went off , could not be seen from any marshal 's post ) . |
| 20 | It is a long tradition within the firm to produce handmade farewell cards and there have been some beauties — apt and humorous — which have left the donors proud of their efforts and the recipients amused and flattered . |
| 21 | The Gnomes had gone to considerable trouble ; Culdub and Bith had sat up long hours and consulted books and chronicles and there had been much burning of late candles and worried scurryings to and fro between the Gnomes ' houses in the little mountain village . |
| 22 | It was a full week before they reappeared in The Bar ; we had n't seen them for six nights and there had been much discussion . |