Example sentences of "there [vb past] been a [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , there had been a long and consistent course of dealing which was adhered to on this occasion . |
| 2 | All the reports agreed that there had been a gradual but marked increase in the intensity of activity on Krakatoa during the three days preceding the twenty-sixth . |
| 3 | Also , after the Jacobite Wars there had been a gradual but continuing improvement of the main roads in Britain . |
| 4 | Indeed , according to Louis Lomax , there had occurred ‘ The Negro Revolt ’ , meaning that there had been a gradual but discernible rejection of the notion of blacks as inferior and a series of social movements orchestrated to sound this ( 1963 ) . |
| 5 | This research suggested , however , that there had been a recent and substantial increase in the proportion of young women gaining formal , employment related qualifications . |
| 6 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 7 | Although he differentiated his position from that of Draper , suggesting that the struggle had been between science and dogmatic theology rather than between science and religion , A. D. White insisted that there had been a theological and a scientific view of every question , invariably at odds . |
| 8 | Chairman Eddie Slinger said : ‘ The committee took the view that there had been a deliberate and flagrant breach of Board regulations which Mr Lamb admitted were designed not only for the benefit of the Board but all registered cricketers . |
| 9 | After last night 's hour-long meeting at the CRC offices , Mr McNeill said there had been a full and frank exchange of views , but declined to add anything . |
| 10 | After last night 's hour-long meeting at the CRC offices , Mr McNeill said there had been a full and frank exchange of views , but declined to add anything . |
| 11 | Taylor wrote it because he considered that there had been a careless and needless neglect of hearing confessions in the Church of England . |