Example sentences of "[ex0] have been [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wales was once known as a fly-half factory , but since Jonathan Davies went North there has been not a single successor of world class selected for the national team and at the moment the signs are not good that one is about to come off the production like . |
| 2 | In the early 1990s there has been indeed a reverse transition to capitalism in the former communist countries of Eastern Europe , and the issues this process raises will need to be considered more fully later ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 3 | Since July 1991 , statistics show there has been around a per cent drop in part-timers . |
| 4 | Midland chief executive Brian Pearse admitted : ‘ There has been quite a lot of conjecture about a merger with another leading clearing bank in the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | There has been quite a lot of trouble with 7.50 x 16 Avon Rangemaster with the steel tyre cords breaking through the tyre to puncture the tubes , but we have not come across this with the Avon Ranger . |
| 6 | ‘ There has been quite a lot of interest , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 7 | But , within the decade , it seems clear that any long-term trend is outweighed by temporary fluctuations in the economy and the availability of credit ; though in the short term there has been quite a sharp increase in credit use at the close of the decade . |
| 8 | ‘ There has been quite a bit of hype and I do n't think the film lived up to it . ’ |
| 9 | There has been quite a staggering traffic of internationals into and out of New Zealand and provincial teams in recent years — and now a highway has been invitingly posted . |
| 10 | There has been quite a bit of litigation in the United States in which taxpayers have sought to challenge some use to which taxes have been put . |
| 11 | Sotheby 's told The Art Newspaper that ‘ there has been quite a large response to the Lloyd 's letter , but talks are going on with a view to possible changes in this arrangement ’ . |
| 12 | There has been quite a lot of speculation on the matter in professional circles . ’ |
| 13 | There has been quite a lot of talk recently about adding enzymes to help the carp digest our sophisticated carp baits . |
| 14 | So on the royal dockyard there has been quite a number ah , of rumours circulating this conference this morning , there has also been on the television and the radio , statements by one Gordon . |
| 15 | Dr Anne Dew , who is organising the vigil at Dryburn hospital , Durham , said : ‘ There has been quite a bit of support for the vigil from staff in all areas of work at the hospital . |
| 16 | There has been quite a bit of inflation since then but even then six million dollars was not a lot . |
| 17 | There has been almost a hush about tonight 's event . |
| 18 | In some sectors of manufacturing there has been almost a reluctance to change . |
| 19 | These lowland soils are called Brown Earths because there has been only a small amount of leaching which leaves the humus and chemicals fairly evenly spread between the A and B horizons of the soil . |
| 20 | It was in fact anticipated that the establishment of the Library Instruction Materials Bank ( LIMB ) in 1977 would remove some of the duplication in production , but there has been only a small measure of success here . |
| 21 | In Britain , however , there has been only a modest and localised recent recovery by the extreme right . |
| 22 | Since 1985 there has been only a marginal reduction in mental hospital beds : ‘ I think we lost some somewhere ’ , as Dr Peter Verbraak , Director of de Grote Bek Hospital in Groningen , recently commented . |
| 23 | While the number and proportion of women in paid employment has increased significantly since the Second World War , there has been only a very small improvement in women 's wages compared with those of men , and little growth in the range of occupations in which women are able to gain employment . |
| 24 | In the EC there has been only a limited introduction of expanded audit mandates by individual member countries . |
| 25 | However , there has been only a one to three per cent reduction in fat on sheep and cattle carcases during that period . |
| 26 | Over that period there has been only a 10 per cent . |
| 27 | From the many written questions that my hon. Friend has tabled on this matter , I note not only that the numbers of people in residential and nursing care have increased substantially , as we all know , but also the surprising fact that there has been only a modest fall in the numbers of people in local authority care . |
| 28 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 29 | At this end of the village the night had been quiet , but in the Untouchable quarter to the west , there 'd been quite a kerfuffle . |
| 30 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |