Example sentences of "[conj] there have [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Especially in the municipal buildings in Dale Street , Liverpool , where there 's been flooding . |
| 2 | Although there had been fulling mills along the river for several centuries , the first industrial age mill was not built until 1790 . |
| 3 | In this case the structures of the two programs were similar , the programs had a similar look and feel even though written in different computer programming languages and this , coupled with the fact that the same person had been involved in the two programs , raised a strong presumption that there had been copying and , hence , an infringement of copyright . |
| 4 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which lead to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 5 | It was this that suggested that there had been pricing errors which led to the suspension of the trusts . |
| 6 | Analysis of the nuclear DNA of the mole salamander Ambystoma has shown that there has been crossing with males of related sexual species . |
| 7 | He said in a Commons written reply that there has been mounting concern over the costs of veterinary supervision , with hourly fees reaching £40 . |
| 8 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 9 | ‘ And there has been looting — ah , this damned war ! ’ |
| 10 | Much of the glen is owned by NTS and there has been increasing adverse publicity recently over a vast upsurge in visitor numbers , the centre 's failure to stop indiscriminate car parking up and down the glen and increased mountain erosion . |
| 11 | The relationship between herbivores and plants has often been seen as some kind of arms race , but there have been opposing views in that , for example , spittle-bugs in the dry tropics of West Africa , rather than depleting valuable water resources may promote microbial activity beneath particular tree species , allowing them to take up nutrients in the dry season from the surface layers of the soil , provided that other roots can tap a deep water source . |