Example sentences of "[num] there have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
2 | One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism . |
3 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
5 | Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent . |
6 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
7 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
8 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
9 | Since the 1940s there has been a global transition in health , with a rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases . |
10 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
11 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
12 | Since the late 1970s there has been a marked tightening of the laws which regulate public order , public morality and porn in particular . |
13 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
14 | Since 1981 there have been no further issues of SDRs because the executive board of the IMF can not provide a consensus as to the need for a further issue of SDRs . |
15 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
16 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
17 | From 1958 there was a steady improvement in the quality of Britain 's rivers , but since 1980 there has been a net deterioration of 6 per cent . |
18 | However , over the period since 1986 there has been a noticeable move in these areas towards splitting double modules into two singles . |
19 | Since 1986 there has been a remarkable reduction , especially in the figure for the long-term unemployed . |
20 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
21 | Before 1977 there had been no formal ranking of the local authorities , and more than seventy had gained something from Urban Programme expenditure . |
22 | On Aug. 13 there had been a related wave of violent attacks by Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) . |
23 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
24 | Since 1973 there has been a steady increase in electoral support for the Conservative party which dominated centre-right coalition governments in the early 1980s . |
25 | compared to 1987 there has been a tremendous decrease . |
26 | Since 1961 there has been a 19 per cent decrease in the mortality rates for males aged 65 — 74 . |
27 | However , in the interest of brevity , I will my remarks to points A and B. Since nineteen seventy nine there 's been a major shift away from our industrial base towards service industries . |
28 | Since 1951 there has been a significant decrease in the labour force participation of older male workers . |
29 | Already by 1890 there had been a big improvement in the relations of the Papacy with governments conscious of Roman Catholicism 's contribution to social order in a time of revolutionary fears . |
30 | Hence , since the late 1960s there has been a gradual erosion of the line between sales promotion and advertising . |