Example sentences of "[num] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April 2 there had been a clash between the security forces and civilians in the Bassatine suburb of southern Cairo after the security forces had intervened to prevent the distribution of tracts hostile to the regime . |
| 2 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 3 | One of the main theses of the regulationist school is that in the 1970s/1980s there has been a decisive shift from Fordism ( named after the company in which its introduction is most famed ) to neo-Fordism . |
| 4 | However , since about 1985 there had been a divergence of judicial thinking on the subject and the law was at a cross-roads . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ? |
| 6 | Since the 1980's there has been a renaissance of interest in ethnography . |
| 7 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 8 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 9 | Since 1979 there has been a loss of over 1.5 million manufacturing jobs ; by 1987 manufacturing accounted for only 22 per cent of the British workforce , ‘ a figure more typical of countries with large fishing or agricultural sectors ’ . |
| 10 | Since 1979 there has been a reversal in regional policy . |
| 11 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that that means that since 1979 there has been a two thirds increase in capital spending compared with a cut of one third when Labour was in power ? |
| 12 | Will the Minister confirm that since 1979 there has been a 37 per cent . |
| 13 | Since August 1991 he has been a key member of the Planning Team preparing for the European Summit Meeting at the Palace on 11 – 12 December 1992 and organising the subsequent reinstatement works . |
| 14 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 15 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 16 | Since about 1960 there has been a great increase in our knowledge of Maya history . |
| 17 | Since the 1940s there has been a global transition in health , with a rapid emergence of non-communicable diseases . |
| 18 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 19 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 20 | Until 1984 he had been a regular exhibitor for forty years , and in 1952 he gained a show record for the heaviest white with a transparent weighing 30 drams 8 grains , a record that still stands . |
| 21 | During the Norwegian Campaign of early 1940 he had been a member of 263 Squadron flying Gladiators , and had claimed one victory and a share in another before being wounded . |
| 22 | In 1812 it had been an incredible 126s ( £6.30 ) . |
| 23 | From 1974 to June 1992 she had been a Knesset member for the Ratz , with its strongly secularist policies [ for Meretz 's coalition agreement see p. 38946 ] . |
| 24 | This is another welcome return as having been available running under SuperCalc 5 there has been a period in which this was no longer available . |
| 25 | Since the 1970s there has been a move towards financial devolution in many countries worldwide . |
| 26 | Paul Hoggett ( 1987 ) , for example , has sought to explain changes in the organization of local government largely in terms drawn from debates within economics and the sociology of work ( see , for example , Massey , 1988a ; Meegan , 1988 ) , which suggests that since the early 1970s there has been a move away from Fordist towards post-Fordist methods of production . |
| 27 | Since the late 1970s there has been a marked tightening of the laws which regulate public order , public morality and porn in particular . |
| 28 | Since the 1970s there has been a movement to bring art into hospitals , to sugar the pill , to the advantage of both patients and artists . |
| 29 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 30 | The only seat won by the nationalist Fatherland Party of Labour was won by the party 's leader Dimitar Arnaudov in the town of Kurdjali , where according to the Guardian of June 18 there had been an " ugly backlash against the restoration of the rights of Bulgaria 's ethnic Turkish minority " earlier in 1990 . |