Example sentences of "there have [been] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 2 | As a result , there have been changes to land-clearance contracts , including the replacement of grasses by leguminous species that provide a better protective cover and enhance the nitrogen content of the soil . |
| 3 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 4 | Naturally there have been pockets of Tory resistance in Labour strongholds , just as there are pockets of Labour resistance in the South . |
| 5 | No one knows exactly how many eligible people there are , because the last firm data comes from the 1981 census ; there have been extrapolations from those figures , but inevitably there is an element of guesswork . |
| 6 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 7 | there have been experiments with 30 km/h zones in an attempt to win safety gains inexpensively . |
| 8 | In other denominations , as well as seeking to meet the social needs of those who are disadvantaged , there have been experiments with weekly joint services with the Asian community . |
| 9 | Because of the weight of the tiles , you have to be particularly careful if you 're thinking of covering whole walls — there have been instances of large sections of tiles coming away from a wall because they have n't been properly fixed . |
| 10 | ‘ There have been approaches by several institutions but we are not considering new ventures as a priority , ’ he says . |
| 11 | Thirdly there have been studies of geomorphological processes affected by human activity and particularly important stimuli were produced by Wolman ( 1967a ) who suggested the way in which sediment yield varied at the present time between urban and non-urban areas and extended this to provide a model of change of sediment yield in the northeast of the USA since 1700 , and also by Douglas ( 1969 ) . |
| 12 | Although there have been periods of economic stagnation or crisis , including the exceptionally severe crisis of the 1930s ( which itself failed to engender large-scale revolutionary movements in most of the capitalist countries ) , and a renewed depression in the 1980s , the general tendency of capitalism has been to promote a continuous , and sometimes rapid , improvement in material standards of living , in which a large part of the working class , if not the whole class , has shared . |
| 13 | In reply , the restructuring school , while agreeing that it is important to distinguish long-term and short-term changes , might argue that within any long-term decentralization there have been periods of crucial importance . |
| 14 | Gastrointestinal involvement by amyloid has been reported in dialysis patients , and there have been cases of intestinal infarction associated with massive amyloid deposits in the muscle layers of the bowel . |
| 15 | ‘ There have been murderers aged ten , ’ said Pooley . |
| 16 | There have been complaints in all the affected towns : about the lost jobs , the hardship to students and the old , the economic and environmental effects . |
| 17 | But there have been warnings against this — both from black parents and from the conservative popular press — and these are helping teachers to re-evaluate multicultural education and to consider much more fully why it is of benefit for all children and should lead to increased achievement and awareness amongst our pupils . |
| 18 | Over the past 40 years , there have been shifts in nuclear strategy and changes in technology and in the appreciation of the perceived threat . |
| 19 | ‘ Would there have been criticism of any other retailer doing the same ? ’ , he asked . |
| 20 | Although there have been innovations in social care provision , which are outside the range of this book to review , there is still a tendency to fit people to services rather than vice versa . |
| 21 | There have been problems with one or two areas but it has n't been a a a general problem . |
| 22 | At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers . |
| 23 | ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’ |
| 24 | There have been drawings on those investments , though , mainly , the the the main two have been to fund the redundancies associated with the reorganisation , and to grant a dowry to N A C V S , on its independence from the Council . |
| 25 | There have been reports of extrajudicial executions , killings and mutilations of civilians or captured members of armed forces and of the torture or ill-treatment of people detained by the various parties to the conflict . |
| 26 | There have been reports of simple gastroscopic monitoring without removal of the tumours and cases of spontaneous regression of the tumours have been observed . |
| 27 | More recently there have been reports of Chinese Muslims demonstrating in Peking . |
| 28 | Even in the ‘ feminine ’ arts , however , women have been subject to more subtle pressures : arts , it is believed , are the domain of ‘ feminine ’ men , not women , and there have been attempts in recent years to render the arts more ‘ masculine ’ . |
| 29 | Fortunately , over the past few years there have been attempts by social services and local authorities to review the value of care for young people . |
| 30 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |