Example sentences of "have been [noun] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that there has been discussion in the House of Lords , but that makes the offence worse . |
| 2 | The main point which emerges from considering the historical evidence is that there certainly has been change in the amount and type of support offered , but that this can not be seen simply as a decline from a high to a low point . |
| 3 | There has been progress in the integration of community languages into the mainstream curriculum but the progress is pitifully slow , with a number of factors compounding a lack of confidence amongst those campaigning for greater sensitivity towards and encouragement of the forms of language brought by pupils into British Schools . |
| 4 | Of course there has been inflation in the economy , but even so you can tell Wilko is a Yorkshireman . |
| 5 | Even though their main aim has been consolidation in the league , a win today could even make them title outsiders . |
| 6 | Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations . |
| 7 | There has been debate in the past about whether de-mergers which result in a deferral of this capital gains tax charge are permitted , and the details of this type of structure are outside the scope of this chapter . |
| 8 | There never has been room in the consumer electronic marketplace for two directly competing , but incompatible , systems . |
| 9 | As he says , ‘ there has been beer in the ball parks for years ’ . |
| 10 | The High Court or an election court ( constituted and functioning in accordance with Parts III and IV of the 1983 Act ) may , on the presentation of an election petition by an interested party ( a voter , a ‘ defeated ’ candidate ) , declare a seat vacant , or provide for the return of another candidate in prescribed circumstances , where there has been irregularity in the conduct of the election campaign or where the ‘ successful ’ candidate is not qualified . |
| 11 | It took something away from everyone , whether they 'd been IP in the past or not . |
| 12 | The only influence on their choice could have been differences in the credit terms . |
| 13 | Both Offa 's dislike of the men of Kent and the extent of the territory now coming under his control may have been factors in the situation in the late 780s , but in 798 Coenwulf and Leo were deploying these arguments selectively and in a way which compromises their validity as single explanations of what was probably a complex situation . |
| 14 | If the body had turned out to be Stavanger 's it would have been progress in the case , though we 'd have been no nearer knowing where he had been killed , or who had killed him . |
| 15 | And yesterday as a big hunt was launched for her attackers , police revealed there may have been women in the gang . |
| 16 | On May 19th seven civil servants were fired ( though , in one of many farcical moves , five have now been unfired ) among muttering that there may have been criminality in the office . |
| 17 | Isidore of Seville ( d. 636 ) summed it all up thus : ‘ many who bear the attacks of the adversary and resist the desires of the flesh are martyrs , even in the time of peace , in virtue of this self-immolation to God in their heart : they would have been martyrs in the time of the persecutions ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ No , and if it was the shot that killed Sabine Jourdain there 'd have been blood in the lounge . |
| 19 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 20 | A crucial factor in this does seem to have been changes in the role of women within the family . |
| 21 | There appear to have been trends in the fossil gymnosperms leading to increased protection of the ovules . |
| 22 | ‘ Do you believe there to have been illegality in the running of the club affairs ? ’ |
| 23 | So did Kiffin Rockwell , the twenty-one-year-old medical student from North Carolina , both of whose grandfathers had been officers in the Confederate Army . |
| 24 | In so far as these involved Thorkell after 1021 it is worth remembering that Olaf and he had been associates in the army of 1009 – 12 , and that both had later served Æthelred . |
| 25 | If there had been room in the hallway , he would have swung Wee Charlie round in a circle . |
| 26 | But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures . |
| 27 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 28 | Lansdowne came first because he had been leader in the House of Lords since 1902 ; he was too old to be a rival to Law and he cooperated with him fully , though not without some condescension . |
| 29 | There had been snow in the Store , too , sprayed on merchandise around Christmas Fayre time . |
| 30 | And yet … she thought of Officer Hassan and his belief that there had been skulduggery in the case of Wolfgang Klein . |