Example sentences of "there have been [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 ) . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Over the past 40 years , there have been shifts in nuclear strategy and changes in technology and in the appreciation of the perceived threat . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | At Flora Road , Witham there have been problems with unauthorised parking by travellers . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | There have been reports of simple gastroscopic monitoring without removal of the tumours and cases of spontaneous regression of the tumours have been observed . |
| 41 | More recently there have been reports of Chinese Muslims demonstrating in Peking . |
| 42 | 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 ’ . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | First , there have been attempts by social scientists to communicate with biologists . |
| 45 | There have been disputes between hon. Members over whether Carlo Ripa di Meana , the European Community Environment Commissioner , was within his rights or was interfering in every nook and cranny of British daily life — as our Foreign Secretary put it in rather colourful language — when he commanded that work on construction projects in this country should cease because environmental impact assessments had not been prepared although they should have been . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | It is worth stressing that in each year since 1980 there have been examples of serious street disorder ( Benyon , 1984 ; Benyon and Solomos , 1987 ) . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | There have been examples in local councils in the south-east — Hertfordshire springs to mind — of evictions taking place . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | From the very earliest days of Hollywood there have been reviews by part-time critics and intellectuals praising particular films for breaking away from the usual formulas . |
| 52 | There have been excavations on other sites , but these have added further complications . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | ‘ 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 . |