Example sentences of "[subord] there have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture since 1982 has been one of net zero change although there has been at least one new arrival , Boots PLC . |
| 2 | By the end of the 1970s there was substantially more conflict between central and local government than there had been before and , by the early 1980s , not only was Labour in control of almost every urban council — even when very weak at national level — but in some places the controlling Labour groups had swung dramatically to the left . |
| 3 | There is less scorn in the novel than there had been in the article , and a pity that must have come as surprise to readers of his work . |
| 4 | As one settlement worker remarked , while the after-care committees provided ‘ many more opportunities for direct personal service than there had been in the past ’ , the exchange system brought the home visitors and the club managers into the ‘ industrial side ’ and , therefore , united the social and industrial welfare of adolescents . |
| 5 | Not for the first time it occurred to him how vulnerable his position was , and he reflected ruefully that there was probably no more security or protection in the rank of Khan than there had been in any of the various honours which he had received while he had been an intimate of the clique which had surrounded Nogai . |
| 6 | By 1986 there were three times the number of places in private homes than there had been in 1979 . |
| 7 | In October 1989 , however , there were still 986,000 more people unemployed than there had been in October 1979 . |
| 8 | The economic crisis following the Black Death had undoubtedly given men of enterprise the opportunity to better their condition , and there was probably more mobility of population in the fifteenth century than there had been in the thirteenth . |
| 9 | I mean th th th the clan links in the south were much stronger than they were in the north , and therefore there might be even greater commercial landlord opposition to land reform than there had been in the north . |
| 10 | There 's been more praise for Brian Clough , at the bottom of the League with Forest , than there has been for Norwich manager Mike Walker at the top . |
| 11 | And although entitlement caps are not easy to implement , there is more interest in them in Congress than there has been for years , and the interest is being communicated to the administration . |
| 12 | There was never a more astonishing Revolution accomplished in the internal system of any country than there has been within the compass of a few years in that of England … |
| 13 | There have been more judgments against Britain at the European Court of Human Rights than there have been against any other country . |
| 14 | Well we had we had a lot of snow in those days , far more than than there 's been since then . |
| 15 | They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note . |
| 16 | Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war . |
| 17 | A year before there had been at least six members of the Conservative Party better known than himself . |
| 18 | Here , in the region , there had been as much talk of Stokoe 's stars in the Wembley build up as there had been of the side Malcolm Crosby led out against Liverpool . |
| 19 | There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion . |
| 20 | There were no major artists on Virgin whose sensibilities were likely to be offended as there had been at the Pistols ' previous stopovers ; no American parent company to interfere . |
| 21 | There was no shrub and palm cover bound by creepers as there had been in the rain forest so that the track was little protected from the squalls that struck up the mountainside , screeching like banshees , as they bowed the slender treetrunks almost to the ground . |
| 22 | Apart from this , the Emperor was afraid that if the Duke de Montpensier , who was married to Isabella 's sister , became King there would be a civil war in Spain as there had been in 1830 , when ‘ a sister had dethroned a sister ’ . |
| 23 | Nor was there the usual rise in ammonia or nitrite levels , as there had been in the past . |
| 24 | When they reached the market place , he realised that his father had been right : there were nowhere near as many workers as there had been in previous Novembers . |
| 25 | Clearly there were as many flaws in the current version of the Big Bang Theory as there had been in the Steady State Theory . |
| 26 | There remained in the polytechnics ( as there had been in the former teacher training colleges ) lecturers who , having experience of teaching in primary schools , acknowledged the importance of approaching teacher education in a broader , more holistic way . |
| 27 | There was no attempt , as there had been in 1919 , to withdraw from a world role . |
| 28 | Even in the urban core where there has been massive population loss associated with slum clearance , there were almost as many dwellings in 1981 as there had been in 1961 and , as Table 3.4 shows , the area now has a far higher standard of amenity . |
| 29 | In the lands west of the Rhine , there was in principle , as there had been in late Roman times , a count for each civitas , though in practice , one man often held two or more neighbouring civitates . |
| 30 | Such population growth as there has been since then comes from a natural internally generated increase and there has been significant out-migration . |