Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] have [be] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since those early days there have been many sea chases with much bigger things at stake , but broadly speaking the same rules apply , although it is sometimes difficult to be dispassionate where hard drugs are concerned . |
| 2 | Over the past few years there have been many reports in the national press advocating that all dwellings should be fitted with smoke detectors . |
| 3 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 4 | In recent years there have been many attacks on what is sometimes called the classic realist novel on similar grounds : that far from being a means of communication it is a means of ideological domination and repression , reproducing on the cultural level the processes of industrial capitalism , making its audience passive consumers , reconciling them to their alienated state instead of liberating them from it , by making it appear normal or natural . |
| 5 | Over the years there have been many studies of the effects of smoking on gastric secretion . |
| 6 | Over the years there have been many modifications in an attempt to simplify the tendering procedure and improve the difficulties of administration . |
| 7 | In recent years there have been some significant advances in studying the auditory system , especially in the analysis of computational maps that recode intensity and phase differences in the two ears into the representation of auditory space ( Knudsen , DuLac , and Esterly 1987 ) , but this work has focused on subcortical mechanisms . |
| 8 | Our knowledge of life histories of most deep-sea ophiuroids is poor ( see Tyler , 1980 for a review ) although in recent years there have been several accounts of the reproductive biology of the more common species ( Schoener 1968 , 1972 : Tyler & Gage 1979 , 1980 , 1982 ; Gage & Tyler , 1981 , 1982 ) together with some work on the post-larval stages ( Schoener 1967 , 1969 ; Gage & Tyler 1981 ) . |
| 9 | In recent years there have been several judicial attempts to define the scope of the doctrine . |
| 10 | And grateful Jean , their son Nicholas and four daughters passed on ‘ heart-felt thanks to the surgeons and staff at Cheltenham and Frenchay hospitals , the police , ambulance and fire services , their friends and the countless well-wishers who have been such a sustaining source of strength ’ . |
| 11 | Since the 16th century legislation has established an inquisitorial form of investigation into the dealings and assets of bankrupts which is calculated to yield potentially incriminating material , and in more recent times there have been many other examples , in widely separated fields , which are probably more numerous than is generally appreciated . |