Example sentences of "there have been [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is true that there has been a small electoral earthquake in Europe , but not many people have been hurt , and those that were thoroughly deserved it . |
| 2 | There has been a great black smudge all down the crag ever since … ’ . |
| 3 | There has been a great national exercise , co-ordinated by the careers service nationally and by my Department , to establish the true position . |
| 4 | Although no official statistics are ever provided , there has been a general downward trend in sales from the peak in 1989 to 1991 when potential buyers were uneasy about the economy and the Gulf War . |
| 5 | Yet throughout her period of office there has been a strong authoritarian tendency . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is the only occasion on which there has been a substantial national strike in support of any industrial group of workers in Britain . |
| 7 | In particular , while the broad move towards smaller , more powerful pocket-sized computing has continued , there has been a major new entrant into the field of handheld information devices . |
| 8 | Over the past few decades , in particular , in structuralist anthropology , psychoanalysis , and Marxist theory , there has been a major theoretical effort to challenge the naturalness of the ‘ unitary subject ’ in social theory , to see the individual as a product of social forces , an ‘ ensemble of social relations ’ , rather than as a simple natural unity . |
| 9 | Either there has been a real fading , or ( more probably ) there has been an error in recording or interpretation , though it is true that Megrez has been suspected of slight variability in modern times . |
| 10 | Yet while there has been a concerted worldwide effort to save the larger cetaceans from agonising death by human hands , the small cetaceans have in recent years been dying in record numbers . |
| 11 | If an admissible statement is identified , the legal adviser may then be required to conduct a more rigorous examination of the subsequent parliamentary proceedings to establish whether the statement has been repeated , varied or withdrawn and a — somewhat less onerous task whether there has been a relevant subsequent amendment to the provision . |
| 12 | Yet there still remains Peter Golding 's interesting finding : in the past ten years ( through such surveys as have been carried out , which are not many and with no great scientific basis ) , there has been a consistent public appreciation of social work , even though the public has equally consistently held social workers in low esteem , below teachers , doctors , and nurses . |
| 13 | In the USA , in national opinion polls conducted since Chernobyl , there has been a consistent two-to-one margin of opposition over support for new construction of nuclear power stations . |
| 14 | Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established . |
| 15 | It is surely not being excessively pompous to see this as one sign of a trivialisation of European civilisation , or to accept that there has been a catastrophic spiritual impoverishment of national life when a country such as our own , which once thought of itself as Christian , can for the most part simply ignore today 's commemoration of Christ 's passion and death . |
| 16 | Finally , under the Thatcher Government , there has been a sustained ideological and political attack on the pillars of public service broadcasting . |
| 17 | Accompanying these reforms , there has been a vigorous public debate about the value and relevance of teacher education . |
| 18 | During the same period there has been a significant overall fall in employment and rise in unemployment , among 16–18-year-olds . |
| 19 | In the UK , the present position is that microbiological processes are patentable so long as there has been a significant human intervention in the discovery of the organism and its isolation . |
| 20 | Ever since de Gaulle pulled France out of NATO 's integrated military command in 1966 , there has been a remarkable national consensus behind defence policy . |
| 21 | At first sight there has been a triumphant worldwide advance of ‘ the principle of nationality ’ . |
| 22 | If , on the other hand , she infers that there has been a random upward shift in the aggregate demand curve which , by its very nature , affects all markets alike she will infer that the average level of price has risen to P 2 . |
| 23 | There has been a startling 25 per cent rise in the number of single mothers within the past year : from 12 per cent of all families with dependent children in 1987 to 15 per cent in 1988 . |
| 24 | In other words , there has been a large proportional increase in recorded crime in all parts of the country , as Table 4.1 illustrates . |
| 25 | Prof John Catford , executive director of the Health Promotion Authority for Wales , said : ‘ There has been a marked increased in the percentage of fifth formers reported to have used various drugs , from one in five in 1990 to one in three this year . |
| 26 | In the case of asbestos for example , there has been a voluminous medical literature on its direct link with asbestosis , lung cancer , and mesothelioma . |
| 27 | However , as the National Old People 's Welfare Committee noted ( 1963:6 ) , ‘ Since then there has been no apparent official action to promote the employment of elderly people ’ . |
| 28 | A problem that arises in the Timor Gap case is that , although the circumstances of Indonesia 's invasion of East Timor in December 1975 are well known , there has been no authoritative judicial determination of its illegality , or of the legitimacy of Portugal 's claim to be the continuing administering authority . |
| 29 | In the past ten years there has been no major new investment in Kenya , a country previously regarded as an oasis of economic success in east Africa . |
| 30 | Land is important in Cramlington but there has been no recent radical change in its ownership or development pattern . |