Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has now got a new incentive at Forest where there have been so many changes . ’ |
| 2 | She would have to eat a bucket of chicken vindaloo to get the stuff down her and , although there had been publicly expressed doubts about the kitchens of the ‘ Tandoori ’ , Wimbledon , they had n't , as far as Henry knew , got around to using bleach to liven up their menu . |
| 3 | He had never physically hurt her , although there had been more than one occasion towards the end of their short , fraught marriage when he had looked as if he were making a huge effort to stop himself raising a hand to her . |
| 4 | Similar patterns are discernible with other brooch types , although there has been less detailed research . |
| 5 | Although there have been well publicised incidents of alleged poor husbandry of laboratory animals , most well-run organisations have too large an investment in their stock to afford mishandling them , especially primates , whose importation is now severely restricted . |
| 6 | Although there have been more comprehensive examinations of the record of the governments , the above four policy areas are of interest because the Conservative government pledged itself to change the direction of policy in them . |
| 7 | Although there have been only five changes of governing party in Britain since nationalization in 1948 , there have been 21 transport ministers during that time , an average of one less than every two years . |
| 8 | That game proved to be the turning point in the club 's fortunes , and although there have been too many false dawns already in a thus far unsuccessful return , maybe last night 's victory is the break Kendall has been waiting for . |
| 9 | At the Jan. 8 round table meeting Peter Koch , who was responsible for disbanding the National Security Office ( and was subsequently dismissed on Jan. 12 ) , revealed that there had been over 85,000 Stasi employees , 25,000 of whom had already been dismissed ; all weapons would be impounded by the end of January . |
| 10 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 11 | I said that there had been substantially more submissions than the number he gave . |
| 12 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 13 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 14 | The first priority was to re-establish the team unity that had been allowed to dwindle , with the result that there had been much arguing and bickering The old inter-island rivalries that Worrell had eradicated had surfaced again , and he knew the team would accomplish little until these disappeared . |
| 15 | But , to be honest , Mildred felt that there had been quite enough animal enchantments in the school to last a lifetime , and it seemed a less desperate measure to do a nice , straightforward kidnap where at least you could see exactly what was happening . |
| 16 | Opposition MPs claimed that there had been only one small bookmaker in favour and that everyone else had either objected or been neutral . |
| 17 | Mr McConnell pointed out that there had been only four such incidents since his centre opened in 1988 . |
| 18 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 19 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 20 | Only now did she recognise that there had been more than one horse . |
| 21 | US State Department sources said on Feb. 12 that there had been more than 100 such attacks against allied targets since Jan. 17 . |
| 22 | Figures on Sept. 11 from medical authorities in Sarajevo , for the five months of war in Bosnia-Hercegovina to date , estimated that there had been more than 10,000 deaths ; 2,037 people had died and 12,293 had been seriously wounded in Sarajevo . |
| 23 | but the fact that there 's been so much debate |
| 24 | Bearing in mind the hon. Gentleman 's interventions and today 's debates in the House , he may like to know that there has been yet further strengthening of the regulatory system in relation to the services to which he objects . |
| 25 | So far there has been little discussion of the superego for the simple reason that there has been little cause to mention it . |
| 26 | One consequence of this approach is that there has been comparatively little research examining the beliefs and attitudes of older people about their health . |
| 27 | The problem with this is not merely that there has been very little serious thinking within multiculturalism about how ‘ cultural understanding ’ actually occurs , about its forms , mechanisms and limits . |
| 28 | It thus seems that there has been very little geological reworking of the Mercurian surface since the apparent planet-wide obliteration of most craters at the beginning . |
| 29 | It is estimated that there has been about 1000km of lateral movement along the fault system over the past 25 Ma . |
| 30 | One is that there has been far more kicking with sides belting the ball downfield and then hoping to block the attacking position . |