Example sentences of "there have be [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been bloodshed in other communities . |
| 2 | Since 1985 , there has been action in several prisons over several demands , but perennially the amount of overtime that has to be worked . |
| 3 | There has been reluctance in western Europe , up to now , to support the Anglo-American position in the Gulf . |
| 4 | There has been interest in these questions from time to time in the past , in particular in Britain between the end of World War Two and the early 1960s . |
| 5 | There has been unhappiness in some quarters , occasional misunderstandings and ignorance , and a certain amount of unfortunate iconoclasm . |
| 6 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 7 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 8 | According to unofficial reports based on alleged eye-witness accounts , shortly before the passage of the reforms there had been demonstrations in several Albanian towns and an unprecedented strike [ for reports of protests in December 1989 and early January 1990 see pp. 37195-96 ] . |
| 9 | In 1279 the purely clerical assemblies of both provinces made a grant to the king towards the cost of the Welsh wars , but again only after there had been discussion in diocesan assemblies . |
| 10 | There had been suggestions in early 1991 — see p. 37992 — that Gqozo was moving towards relinquishing Ciskei 's claim to sovereignty . |
| 11 | On the previous day there had been rallies in many parts of the Russian Federation in support of Yeltsin ( who was under threat of a no confidence vote in the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies as a result of an attack on Gorbachev in February — see p. 38013 ) , and in opposition to Gorbachev and the Union Treaty . |
| 12 | There had been cows in that yard outside and horses stabled around . |
| 13 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |
| 14 | There had been indications in late 1990 that the security forces faced an upsurge in demonstrations in protest at the transmigration of non-Timorese into East Timor [ see p. 37861 ] . |
| 15 | Ayatollah Khamenei , Iran 's spiritual leader , in a speech on June 10 said that there had been disorder in three towns ( Mashad , Shiraz and Arak ) where a small and subversive counter-revolutionhad taken advantage of the authorities ' leniency ; he warned municipal institutions not to provide pretexts for the stirring up of further disturbances . |
| 16 | In recent years there have been changes in educational emphasis in schools . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | As myth and menace merge , there have been clashes in several towns : in neighbouring Faizabad , five Muslims and one Hindu were killed . |
| 22 | Although there have been theories in this area which would suggest a linear relationship between arousal and performance ( e.g. Hull , 1943 ) the most common claim is that the two variables are related by the curvilinear pattern known as the inverted-U hypothesis ( e.g. Hebb , 1955 ) . |
| 23 | There have been suggestions in recent years that there 's a sub-group of patients with bladder cancer in whom there is a reduced likelihood of recurrence , and it may be possible in those patients to amend the follow-up protocol and omit the six and nine month check cystoscopies . |
| 24 | There have been examples in local councils in the south-east — Hertfordshire springs to mind — of evictions taking place . |
| 25 | In recent years , when there have been reductions in public funding for housing associations , it has been developing an increasing proportion of properties for sale in order to maintain and expand its activities . |
| 26 | There have been rumblings in recent years about the need for a more open Society but recent changes , typified by this open day , augur well for the future . |
| 27 | There are occasions — there have been occasions in this Parliament — when I have to make a supplementary business statement . |
| 28 | She said , ‘ Oh , there 's happy I 've been with you two , there 's been life in this house , first time I 've known it ! ’ |
| 29 | There 's been death in that house , but old Ted Mosse is dead himself — I knew him and Freda when they was married , what he was before that I ca n't say . |