Example sentences of "have been [det] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Office of Population , Censuses and Surveys , there has been little change in breast-feeding patterns in the last decade . |
| 2 | There has been little development in style since the 1920s though the range of materials has increased . |
| 3 | I do not think that in either case there has been any failure in interpretation of the ideas proposed , but rather that accommodation has been too readily accorded . |
| 4 | There has been some increase in equity finance , by listed firms as well as new entrants , but it is restrained by a system giving pre-emptive rights to existing shareholders ( as in Britain , shareholders must be given first grabs at new issues ) , under ponderous rules that mean an issue takes three weeks . |
| 5 | There has been some discussion in welfare economics and philosophical ethics about aspects of the problem , but there is no integrated treatment of the general question of valuing demographic changes . |
| 6 | There has been some readjustment in run-up and an encouragement to bowl rather faster . |
| 7 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 8 | ( 2 ) Some of the express provisions of section 10(9) — for example paragraphs ( c ) and ( d ) ( i ) — as to the matters to which the court is to have particular regard in deciding an application for leave to apply for a section 8 order would be otiose if the whole application were subject to the overriding provisions of section 1(1). ( 3 ) There would have been little point in Parliament providing that the court was to have particular regard to the wishes and feelings of the child 's parent , if the whole decision were to be subject to the overriding ( paramount ) consideration of the child 's welfare . |
| 9 | There would probably have been some cutting in Act 5 . |
| 10 | There seems to have been little improvement in survival in patients with acute renal failure in the past 20 years . |
| 11 | There had been some reduction in transport costs and a degree of commercialization in the early part of the century , but not enough to break the recurrent cycle of harvest failure , food shortage , price increase , misery , and unrest . |
| 12 | Dr Margaret O'Brien , a chartered psychologist at East London Polytechnic and author of The New Man , told the conference : ‘ Though there have been many changes in family life over the century , it is surprising to discover that children seem to have such a traditional view . ’ |
| 13 | There have been many times in history when Christianity has faced extreme difficulty . |
| 14 | I mean , as councillor is aware in trying to move around this building there have been some changes in use of digital locks on some of the doors . |
| 15 | ‘ Would there have been any training in destabilisation ? ’ |