Example sentences of "[noun pl] there have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tensions there had been throughout the century but there is some evidence of a conscious ‘ respectable ’ assault on this precarious independence by the end of the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | If he had fought Dadda , with the backing of the school and the rumblings there had been about court orders to override parents , if he had struggled , he could have got there . |
| 3 | Over recent years there have been on average over 100 children per year injured in accidents whilst on journeys to or from school ( see Table 28 ) . |
| 4 | In the last twenty years there have been times when he would have done better to return to investment in land . |
| 5 | Instead for many , many years there has been in Channel 4 a culture , which allowed you to expect these matters to be dealt with properly , without being made to feel that you were being perverse in raising the issue yet again or that you were making a point or a special case . |
| 6 | In recent years there has been among social scientists an extensive debate about the extent to which the analysis of society and of social institutions can be ‘ value-free ’ . |
| 7 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |