Example sentences of "[ex0] be [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 2 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 3 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 4 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 5 | Indeed , only in Lurgan and Dungannon has there been serious complaints about too much security recently . |
| 6 | Fascinating though it was to watch how the women coped with bad weather and good at Southerness , spectators could have learned rather more about the players and their golf had there been portable scoreboards with the leaders on , the last day , not to mention a leader-board behind the home green . |
| 7 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
| 8 | ‘ Have there been any reports of missing children ? ’ he demanded . |
| 9 | Have there been any developments on the guitar synth front which you 've taken up for this album ? |
| 10 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
| 11 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 12 | Have there been any breaches of confidentiality or illegal use of information by search firms you have employed in the past ? |
| 13 | ( 7 ) Have there been any disputes between the seller and the lessor and/or the owners or occupiers of adjoining or neighbouring properties ? |
| 14 | First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note . |
| 15 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 16 | With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ? |
| 17 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 18 | He was not the friend Preston might have picked for that distinction had there been any rivals in the field . |
| 19 | ‘ Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’ |
| 20 | Agnellus of Ravenna begins by stressing the large size of Lothar 's army and Lothar 's personal valour ( " had there been ten men like him on his side , the empire would never have been divided " ) . |
| 21 | At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased . |
| 22 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |
| 23 | There are 16 clauses in that extract ( excluding comment clauses , ) , more or less , and five or six hedges — that 's about one in three . |
| 24 | Now there are 18 ways in which the offence of handling may be committed : see Nicklin [ 1977 ] 2 All ER 444 ( CA ) — there is only one crime but several ways of committing it . |
| 25 | There are annual abridgments of authorities since 1974 , containing the headnotes of cases and summaries of legislation etc. , arranged according to the titles of the main work . |
| 26 | There are corridor-like store-rooms in the West Wing , though not as extensive as those at Knossos . |
| 27 | Therefore , there are mutual benefits to be obtained . |
| 28 | There are tiny algae within corals , for example ( see pp 56–57 ) ; yet life on the coral reef is predominantly animal . |
| 29 | For tomorrow 's yet more sophisticated market there are other products in store . |
| 30 | But there are other reasons for farmers switching to autumn cereals than a desire to curb nitrate pollution , and this is likely to be the limit of what the ‘ voluntary approach ’ can achieve . |