Example sentences of "[pron] has been an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 2 | I am one of the hon. Members who has started a business from scratch and who has been an employer of quite a lot of people whose jobs were created out of that initiative and enterprise . |
| 3 | She has been an ally of Portugal for over 600 years . |
| 4 | There has been an upturn in demand on the east coast of the US , but in the UK , bulk building materials and plant hire remain moribund . |
| 5 | In recent years there has been an explosion in the growth of business travel . |
| 6 | Although microbial polyesters were discovered in the 1920s , it is only in the past decade that there has been an explosion of international research interest in all aspects of their production , formulation and use . |
| 7 | There has been an explosion in the number of seminaries in Brazil . |
| 8 | There has been an explosion of night visiting . |
| 9 | First , there has been an explosion in the quantity of information , but no corresponding useful measure of quality . |
| 10 | There has been an overestimation of property prices in the Government 's thinking . |
| 11 | Too often in the past there has been an over-reliance on the traditional overdraft facilities in preference to term loans and equity finance , even though the latter may be more appropriate . |
| 12 | There has been an 80-per-cent decline in trade since 1970 and an equivalent decline in government capital expenditure from 1975-1979 . |
| 13 | ‘ There has been an escalation in the number of complaints against staff recently . |
| 14 | ‘ There has been an escalation of recorded Darkfalls in the past decade , ’ continued Gilbert . |
| 15 | They have n't shown the political will to sort out the problem — there has been an element of divide and rule . |
| 16 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 17 | During the last few years there has been an increase in swinging and ground looping accidents and these must be analysed to see if there are new lessons to be learned . |
| 18 | Dietary changes also reveal improvements in food consumption patterns , since there has been an increase in the consumption of oils , chicken meat , eggs and milk , which in the past have been beyond the reach of many of the poor . |
| 19 | To cope with the gradual discharge of mentally handicapped people from hospitals , there has been an increase in the numbers of places available in residential homes . |
| 20 | Over the last few years there has been an increase throughout the UK in cases of bacterial meningitis , though it is still relatively rare . |
| 21 | Recently there has been an increase in the use of mobile fried-fish vans which cause odours in many places , and these are not easily controlled . |
| 22 | Whilst researchers will only be able to specify the ways in which large-scale social and economic restructuring has led to particular types of local political practice through empirical study , we can claim that there has been an increase in local political activity , in contrast to the relatively homogeneous picture presented in the 1950s and early '60s . |
| 23 | Furthermore , it has been argued that , during the Conservative terms of office , there has been an increase in the number of those living in poverty . |
| 24 | Research which has suggested that there has been an increase in voluntary early retirement has been based on the responses of financially secure early retirees ( see , for example , Heidbreder 1972 ; McGoldrick and Cooper 1980 ) . |
| 25 | There has been an increase in life expectancy , with the result that not only are there more elderly people , but there is also a greater likelihood that children will have left home long before the parents ' death . |
| 26 | There has been an increase in the number of rape trials , and hence , even if a constant proportion were reported , an increase in the absolute number of such cases being reported in the press . |
| 27 | Against this background of significant changes in household formation patterns it is hardly surprising that there has been an increase in the proportion and number of older people living alone ( Figure 2.9 ) . |
| 28 | The tenure data for the rings shows that here there has been an increase in owner-occupation at the expense of ‘ other tenures ’ which in these former coal field areas included colliery housing . |
| 29 | At the other end of the age range , there has been an increase in the proportion of the population over 65 . |
| 30 | Throughout the post-war period , there has been an increase in the numbers dependent on means-tested national assistance , or , as it was called from 1966 , supplementary benefit . |