Example sentences of "have been [art] [noun sg] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It was voted on by the clubs but there has been no ratification of that by the management committee .
2 The buildings are the same as they were one hundred years ago ; there has been no development on this block .
3 There has been no lack of international protest .
4 From both points of view there has been no tradition of serious , sustained , and critical debate on the limits and potentialities of the British constitution and liberal-democracy .
5 In the community as a whole there has been no awareness at all of what is happening .
6 So far there has been no response of this sort ; it fell to Iraq 's minorities to make the attempt instead .
7 Save in respect of the reported acquisition of 5,000 stock units by K.H. Ashwell on 27 January 1993 , there has been no change in any of the above interests between 31 December 1993 and 30 March 1993 .
8 There has been no change in this over the years .
9 There has been no evidence of plasmid-mediated ( ie from cell to cell ) resistance to ciprofloxacin , such as that found to beta-lactam antibiotics , aminoglycosides and tetracyclines .
10 Although tumours in 15–20% patients have responded to fluorinated pyrimidines , in particular 5-fluorouracil , there has been no evidence of improved survival .
11 The risks are thought to be very small : ( 1 ) because the balance of the natural environment is primarily controlled by the species already present which appear to operate to the detriment of new introductions ; and ( 2 ) because in new releases of microorganisms to date , all very closely monitored , there has been no evidence of any of them getting out of control or adversely affecting the environment .
12 France has conducted more than 120 underground nuclear tests on the atoll since 1966 , claiming that here has been no leakage during that time .
13 Often there has been no concern at all that perhaps more can be expected educationally of the new Agreed Syllabuses .
14 Thus the subsection therefore covers the situation where the communication is merely in the form of : ‘ buy , ( or sell ) X Company shares ’ ( ie. where there has been no communication of unpublished price sensitive information ) .
15 But like you , he has been talking to my shipping office in Monaco and learns that there has been no communication for four days .
16 However , despite the growing interest in this field of study , there has been no examination of this social group right through the late-medieval period and many aspects of its history remain problematic , even barely explored .
17 There has been no time in British history when this has ever occurred , although from time to time insurrectionary events , such as the Jacobite risings and Chartism , have appeared to threaten the Establishment .
18 ‘ But if you examine the shot range involved there has been no demonstration of exceptional marksmanship . ’
19 Er my answer to Miss Whittaker 's originating question , there has been no argument at all that the area where this policy will operate , which is the open countryside outside of the A O N Bs and national parks , has got any special character that requires a more restrictive approach than national policy .
20 There has never been an instant solution , indeed in some cases there has been no solution at all .
21 But erm er I I I I really feel very strongly about this that we all know that democracy does n't just consist of electing a a national parliament once in five years , we all know the strength of democracy comprises that where the complex of local institutions of local bodies made up of people serving in different ways , not necessarily elected , that is what comprises democracy and it is that which is being undermined again by this measure in this in this Bill and I do say to Your Lordships that for the reasons given by both my Noble Friends er Lord and by , by the Noble Lord , Lord Lord er that there has been no demand for this
22 So although , broadly speaking , taxation jobs are few and far between ( as can be seen from the table there has been no movement at all at assistant manager level in several areas ) there are still excellent jobs available for those with the right specialist skills and knowledge .
23 As there has been no movement on this issue , this action now needs to begin .
24 While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years .
25 There has been no interest from any big industrialists .
26 There has been no point in British history at which the prevailing method of government has been completely swept away , allowing those in power to sit down and create from first principles a new and clearly delineated form of government .
27 Cheap solar energy conversion has been a dream of some scientists since the first oil crisis back in the late 1970s .
28 THERE HAS BEEN A CONSENSUS among European drug researchers for many years over the value of needle exchanges , but US politicians ignored their recommendations .
29 Following the work of Rawls , however , there has been a profusion of important contributions to liberal political philosophy .
30 Formal planning has been a feature of many schools and local authorities for a number of years now , and for those who have yet to embark , DES Circular 7/88 , The Education Act : Local Management of Schools has now made this a statutory requirement .
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