Example sentences of "[pron] has [be] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been a lot of theological argument about whether this programme constitutes Thatcherism or post-Thatcherism . |
| 2 | There has been a lot of debate in political circles as to whether on-the-road campaigning should tackle political issues or concentrate on displaying the personality of the candidates . |
| 3 | The only people moving around are carrying weapons and there has been a lot of shooting , ’ he said . |
| 4 | There has been a lot of debate about the reasons for producing complicated patterns on the suture line ; what advantage would this have given the ammonoids over their nautiloid ancestors , that allowed for the explosive bursts of ammonoid evolution ? |
| 5 | As to the question of Modigliani 's terrible drinking , there has been a lot of talk . |
| 6 | There has been a lot of this kind of partnership in recent years and there is no doubt that there is some mutual benefit but the benefits are unrelated for each party — the college gets a resource that it can use , the donor a warm sense of public spirit , a tax deduction or some publicity . |
| 7 | There has been a lot of research and change in the treatment of mental illness or frailty over the last few years . |
| 8 | During the last few years there has been a lot of publicity about food poisoning . |
| 9 | There has been a lot of talk about The Beatles playing a one-off gig with Julian Lennon as John . |
| 10 | ‘ There has been a lot of evidence that people who eat a lot of fish have less instances of cancer . |
| 11 | ‘ The going is not too difficult but there has been a lot of avalanche debris left after the monsoon . ’ |
| 12 | He said : ‘ There has been a lot of talk about the players we have brought in . |
| 13 | ‘ There has been a lot of bad news on aircraft building programmes since we bought Dowty , ’ says Mr Garner , ‘ but we had effectively discounted all that in our acquisition financial modelling . |
| 14 | There has been a lot of debate , generally conducted outside scientific circles , about the possible existence of such a sense — or , to be more accurate , set of senses . |
| 15 | There has been a lot lately in the Press and on TV about crime and violence and it is sad to see so much wrong being done by the very young of today . |
| 16 | ‘ There has been a lot of talk about taxing invalidity benefit , children 's clothes and food which would have drastically affected a lot of people , especially those needing special diets . |
| 17 | There has been a lot of confusion about the importance of obesity in infancy as a determinant of obesity later in life . |
| 18 | Ferguson said : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation about Lee Sharpe and we want to end it by saying clearly what is wrong with him . |
| 19 | Gerstner told the IBM Corp meeting in Tampa , Florida that he does not intend to ‘ lay out a grand scheme ’ for the company : ‘ There has been a lot of speculation , ’ Reuter reports him saying , ‘ that I am going to unveil some great plan , ’ Gerstner said ; ‘ You will see actions , and our actions will speak for themselves , ’ but added that some actions will not emerge until 1994 ; he described it as not entirely accurate to describe IBM 's strategy as ‘ splitting it up into a bunch of little pieces , ’ and added that the dividend may change based on IBM 's performance and outlook ; ‘ We ca n't expect quick fixes , ’ Gerstner told more than 3,000 shareholders at the meeting , ‘ But I do dare to ask your patience , ’ he said ; his top priority is to get IBM 's layoffs completed and ‘ rightsize ’ the company — ‘ I want to get it behind us so we can say to those remaining , ‘ You are are our team , ’ ’ he said ; he acknowledged several times that IBM 's bureaucracy had hampered the company , and elsewhere it was reported that he has ordered managers to dispense with the customary slides and flip charts when they address him — ‘ IBM has changed but some would say not fast enough , ’ but ‘ We can bring IBM back , ’ Gerstner said . |
| 20 | There has been a lot of anxiety about the issue since the major blast in the City of London in April , but we are happy to confirm that booksellers who are members of the BA scheme are covered . |
| 21 | There has been a lot of interest , even if it is n't public interest . |
| 22 | There has been a lot of talk in recent years about Formula One now being safe , but I think that is dangerous talk . |
| 23 | There has been a lot of assertion about the potential of action of this kind in civil society by what Frankel calls post-industrial utopians but very little account . |
| 24 | Well I would say that there has been a lot of changes since the new Home Office guide lines were issued in nineteen eighty five |
| 25 | For example , there has been a lot of evidence that petrol prices have a marked effect on rates of rural recreation ( Shucksmith , 1 980b ) , since the demand relationship is not only stable , but is also highly price-elastic . |
| 26 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 27 | Later on in my schooling life I made more friends but there has been a lot of falling outs , but we always make up again . |
| 28 | A lot of time has elapsed , there has been a lot of inflation , many cost recalculations , and many changes in the route to get to King 's Cross , and many other considerations , such as the creation of Stratford as a major interchange , have intervened in the meantime . |
| 29 | There has been a lot of work — both recently and in different traditions over a very long historical period — on how sentences are put together . |
| 30 | He says that there has been a lot of overseas interest , from as far away as Japan . |