Example sentences of "there have [been] [noun] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But elsewhere , despite quite a bit of stodge , there has been evidence of lively and ( that old critical standby ) interesting , if not necessarily very innovative , work from a wide range of quarters . |
| 2 | Herbivores are , of course , also affected by the carnivory regime , weather , and other physical features , but , in the groups of plants that have survived the animal onslaught , there has been evolution of defensive features , both physical and chemical . |
| 3 | There has been talk of one or two members taking a trip to Llandrindod in Victorian week — Social Secretary . |
| 4 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 5 | From the late seventeenth century there had been complaints of increasing wickedness , crime and disorder . |
| 6 | Sheikh Saad , the crown prince and prime minister , admitted that there had been abuse of human rights in the early days of the country 's liberation but implied that , with the regime back in control , all was well . |
| 7 | Parish council chairman Peter Foster said there had been reports of one of two buses using the road following a ban on school buses , imposed by the county council after campaigning by residents . |
| 8 | As recently as 1985 , there had been signs of greater even-handedness on the part of the RUC , reflected in more frequent prosecutions of Protestants for ‘ insurgency offences ’ . |
| 9 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 10 | After the talks , Hanan Ashrawi , the Palestinian spokeswoman , said there had been discussion of undisclosed new proposals , but the Palestinians could not make any final decisions without further consultations among themselves and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis . |
| 11 | There had been allegations of Iranian involvement in the murder in Peshawar on Oct. 3 of Lt.-Gen. |
| 12 | Agitation over the Irish question had assumed the proportions of a major political threat in the 1860s , bread riots were not unknown in London in this period , and in the shadow of the second Reform Bill of 1867 there had been occasions of political violence over voting reforms . |
| 13 | The Chancellor told the Commons House Magazine : ‘ Penetrating the gloom of this last year there have been glimmers of good news . |
| 14 | Naturally there have been pockets of Tory resistance in Labour strongholds , just as there are pockets of Labour resistance in the South . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Would there have been criticism of any other retailer doing the same ? ’ , he asked . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | There have been reports of simple gastroscopic monitoring without removal of the tumours and cases of spontaneous regression of the tumours have been observed . |
| 23 | More recently there have been reports of Chinese Muslims demonstrating in Peking . |
| 24 | It is worth stressing that in each year since 1980 there have been examples of serious street disorder ( Benyon , 1984 ; Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | Yet , the Labour MP Jeff Rooker claims , there have been examples of Royal Warwickshire prisoners of war seeking desperately needed help who have been given as little as £25 , while many more have been means-tested and found ‘ unqualified ’ for even basic financial assistance . |
| 26 | In Moabit , for example , there have been falls of 57 per cent in fatal injuries , 45 per cent in severe injuries , 40 per cent in light injuries and a fall in accident costs of 16 per cent . |
| 27 | According to dozens of villagers , journalists , and workers for the opposition candidate , the journalist grandson of Mahatma Gandhi , Mr Rajmohan Gandhi , who is no relation to the incumbent Prime Minister , there have been scores of such incidents in Amethi in systematic attacks that suggest that they have had sanction from higher authority . |
| 28 | From prehistoric times there have been fortifications of one sort or another on the great Rock which dominates the surrounding countryside , but the first records go back to the seventh century . |
| 29 | ‘ There 's been nights of passionate love in this house that have left the lovers more depressed than ecstatic , ’ said Thomas , who found the neurotic sex-lives of some of his betters incomprehensible . |
| 30 | There 's been talk of seventeen and a half per cent being added to food , to public transport and to books and its now believed that VAT on domestic fuel , which was to have been introduced in stages may come in at the full rate in the spring . |