Example sentences of "there [vb base] [been] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If there 've been a whole series of articles articles about health or about food or something like that , no way are they going to do anything else on the subject , unless it 's , it 's brought in a very fierce readers ' letters column or something like that , in which case they may be open for another slant .
2 Cos I do n't , I , I believe there 's been , there 've been no firm proposals for that site yet ?
3 There 've been no other attacks on the estate , but women are warned to be on their guard while walking alone .
4 There have been a small number of fairly successful conservation projects , notably Chang Mei , and at Ma Sae ( UNEP 1979 : 83 ) , but they do not materially detract from the view that Thai conservation policy is not succeeding in reversing national trends of rapid forest clearance and increasing erosion hazards .
5 Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it .
6 Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games .
7 In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make .
8 There have been a large number of studies which have sought to establish the validity and accuracy of replies to this sort of question .
9 For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area .
10 There have been a large number of syntactic theories proposed and an even larger number of parsing systems developed .
11 Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal .
12 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 .
13 Though the majority of those reviewing Braverman 's work took a positive view of his thesis , there have been a significant number of detailed criticisms and revisions to his argument .
14 During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period .
15 While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material .
16 There have been a few interventions .
17 Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years .
18 But again I think it has been unfortunate er er that recently there have been a few cases in which it would have been better not to prosecute
19 We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments .
20 There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing .
21 But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper .
22 There have been a few problems , ’ he said flatly .
23 I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury !
24 We need an undivided sport , there have been a few occasions , sadly , when clubs and associations have followed marginally divisive lines as we attempt to represent the sport similar bodies which does not help our cause .
25 There have been a few comments passed about the way you 're behaving , but do n't worry , next time I hear anyone discussing it I 'll set them straight . ’
26 But recently , including today 's CBI distributive trades survey , there have been a few straws in the wind suggesting things really might be getting a little better .
27 Although there have been a few gains , these have been outweighed by the losses .
28 Therefore , there have been no definite cases of PBC associated PHT described in published works without evident portal hypertension .
29 Until recently , there have been no established codec standards and one system can only speak to another if it is using the same compression-decompression algorithms .
30 Even so there have been no easy solutions to monitoring the country 's public expenditure .
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