Example sentences of "there have [been] [noun] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On June 21 there had been reports that 200 Miskito Indians out of the estimated 2,000 belonging to the Yatama resistance movement had disbanded on the Atlantic coast . |
| 2 | There had been signs that some of the cabins had been occupied by women . |
| 3 | In Japan , there had been criticism that Japanese officials were not adequately consulted during the Gulf crisis . |
| 4 | Even before he died there had been hints that all was not well between his Philippines-born wife , Rose — some 40 years his junior — and Gina Rinehart , Mr Hancock 's daughter by a previous marriage . |
| 5 | But already there had been hints that this would not be her day . |
| 6 | Following a speech by Lord Donaldson , Master of the Rolls , to barristers this month , there have been fears that senior judges involved in drawing up rules would effectively block the use of the new rights in practice , by insisting that preparation of some cases and their presentation in court should be handled by different people . |
| 7 | Some theorists believe that hydrogen becomes a metallic solid where its electrons freely flow when compressed by two or three million atmospheres pressure ; there have been speculations that metallic hydrogen could be useful as a fusion fuel . |
| 8 | There have been complaints that central departments are inefficient because they are overburdened ; the Fulton Committee on the Civil Service urged the ‘ hiving-off ’ of units dealing with routine administration which were little concerned with major policy issues . |
| 9 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 10 | There have been suggestions that some of these experiences , especially the sequences of geometrical shapes , or flashes , may be the result of discharges from the retina occurring in the absence of any stimulation — the so-called entoptic phenomenon — which can also be observed when the eyes are open in the pitch-dark . |
| 11 | Furthermore , there have been suggestions that some types of support are effective for some types of stress but not others , and we do not yet know enough about the causal processes involved to be able to explain this ( Gottlieb , 1983 ) . |