Example sentences of "[adj] there have be [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the difficult economic climate of the 1970s and 80s there have been more frequent cries from industry for assistance , which States have not always resisted in their desire to minimise the disruptive effects of economic change . |
| 2 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
| 3 | During 1991 there had been over 300 finds entered into the by twenty-six members . |
| 4 | Federal police reported that in January-March 1992 there had been nearly 600 " criminal acts hostile to foreigners " , representing a fourfold increase as compared with the same period in 1991 . |
| 5 | From the beginning of the seventeenth century to the beginning of the nineteenth there had been relatively little change in the age-distribution of the population . |
| 6 | Since 1980 there have been very few reports of work design applications or developments . |
| 7 | Yeah I just saw the headlines with it , I did n't , I have n't actually read it , no , yes I must have a look at that There has been really , a very sharp frost this morning , the erm , the park is white and the roofs are white |
| 8 | In the early 1990s there has been indeed a reverse transition to capitalism in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe , and the issues this process raises will need to be considered more fully later ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 9 | In 1840 there had been about 10 million Poles — by 1914 there were over 18 million . |
| 10 | It seemed like ever since the ‘ sixties there had been just one brand of government in two slightly different packages and nothing much ever changed ; there was this feeling that after the burst of energy in the early-mid-'sixties everything had been going downhill ; the whole country was constipated , bound up with rules and regulations and restrictive practices and just general , endemic , infectious ennui . |
| 11 | In that year 135,000 houses were improved with the help of government grants : in 1955 there had been too little improvement to record in official statistics . |