Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] has been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The claims of those commentators ( for example Meager , 1985 ; LRD , 1987 ) who suggest there has been a growth in temporary working in recent years are given no support whatsoever by these results . |
| 2 | COMMUNITY workers say there has been a big increase in the number of young homeless people as winter sets in . |
| 3 | … ‘ I expect it has been a while , yes . ’ |
| 4 | He says there has been a great deal of interest shown in the firm because virtual reality is seen as an exciting new technology with a lot of potential . |
| 5 | Bryan Gould , shadow Environment Secretary , says there has been a fivefold increase in planning applications for toxic waste incineration capacity . |
| 6 | A Forensic expert who investigated the Carl Bridgewater murder case , says there has been a miscarriage of justice . |
| 7 | A Forensic expert who investigated the Carl Bridgewater murder case , says there has been a miscarriage of justice . |
| 8 | Even in 1964 we commented , ‘ For as long as many of us care to remember there has been a big Healey in the price lists . |
| 9 | National statistics show there has been a general decline in Britain 's urban population . |
| 10 | Dixie says it has been a busy day . |
| 11 | Lucy says it has been a lesson in sympathy to begin again as a ‘ new ’ teacher , finding a way to pull our work more into line with the current fitness scene . |
| 12 | What Wieman has done — as well as reaching the lowest temperature on record — is to simplify what has been an immensely complex piece of laboratory apparatus . |
| 13 | ‘ That 's even more bizarre , which makes us believe there has been a mix-up of flasks , ’ Grollet said . |
| 14 | ‘ I am very sorry , ’ he said , ‘ but you must understand it has been a very long time … |
| 15 | and as you well know there has been a series of meetings in |
| 16 | Lawrence added : ‘ I know it has been an expensive season for fans , but I hope they will dig deep to back the team in their final home game . ’ |
| 17 | Calpers , with $1.5 billion invested in Japan , fears it has been a victim of this practice , along with other American pension funds . |
| 18 | I wish to express my gratitude to Simon Rattle and his remarkable orchestra in Birmingham for providing what has been a wonderful new musical experience for me . |
| 19 | This latest setback on a blustery day at Easter Road simply served to underline what has been an inconsistent season , writes Roddy Mackenzie . |
| 20 | We could have what you English call ‘ fun ’ … and I do not think there has been a great deal of that commodity in your life so far . |
| 21 | Since this condemnation of research opportunity , few studies have penetrated deeply beneath the sensitive skin of ‘ police culture ’ , and even though Chatterton in his notes to my thesis argued there has been a considerable amount of ‘ participant police research ’ , I would question whether many of these inquiries achieved the finer grain and detail' of the insider 's account , for they can never really know or tell if they have been excluded from the inner workings of police practice or prevented from gaining access to the hidden realities ‘ contained inside the heads of the constables ’ . |
| 22 | Derek Johnson , author of East Anglia at War , insists there has been a cover-up . |
| 23 | Well er the I mean there has been a slight complexity with the replacement er programme of course because er er E F two thousand was originally envisaged that it would replace the phantoms er as as as as well as the jaguars and now that er has altered with the decision in options to er get rid of er the phantom squadrons , we 've er been able to adjust the replacement programme such that er the aircraft E F two thousand will replace er the erm er the jaguar and some of the F threes er and the programme will be adjusted such that we get er the most cost effective er mixture of replacement of those two types and there is no problem with keeping the jaguar going until that stage and it may well be it is , is being judged to be cheaper that we should er do some F three replacement at the same time , again partly for cost reasons because it 's gon na be more cost effective to do it that way . |
| 24 | ‘ It appears there has been a breakdown in communications , ’ said a TSB spokeswoman last night . |
| 25 | But instead of bringing civilian scientists up to the standard of their military colleagues , many Soviet scientists feel there has been a levelling down . |
| 26 | Most MPs still reckon he has been a fine foreign secretary since his switch from the Home Office in 1989 . |
| 27 | ‘ I am sure that , afterwards , you will admit it has been a most interesting assignment . |
| 28 | As far back as can be traced it has been a village of yeomen , small independent farmers , and never since medieval times an estate village ruled by one big landowner , though for a period in the 18th and 19th centuries the Grimston family of Kilnwick and later the Hothams of South Dalton acquired some farms . |
| 29 | If we start from the bottom up , I think there has been a big advance in women as professionals , as producers , directors , starting to come into sound , quite a lot of editors , slightly more difficult with cameras . |
| 30 | ‘ If people think there has been a mistake , they have a right to appeal , ’ Environment Secretary Michael Howard said yesterday . |