Example sentences of "there [verb] [be] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the beginning of September until this week there has been practically no rain , and the wind has never reached gale force , so the leaves have stayed on the trees far longer than usual , with a constantly changing pattern of glorious colour . |
| 2 | There has been effectively no involvement on the part of UK funds in index arbitrage . |
| 3 | There has been both an increase in the total number of households and a decrease in the average household size . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ There has been absolutely no discussion going on as to how many Liberal Democrat bottoms will sit in the back of how many government Daimlers , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Though he has attracted some favourable notices in the last few years , his works have had very few prestigious performances , and there has been absolutely no powerful publicity machine or critical coterie building up behind him . |
| 7 | We would be happy to consider the prospects for thin slab steel production , but unfortunately there has been absolutely no commercial interest in such production . |
| 8 | Recently , there has been virtually no recruitment . |
| 9 | At the same time there has been virtually no new council house building . |
| 10 | While international contracting on large development projects in the lesser developed countries is well established , there has been virtually no trading of construction services within Europe . |
| 11 | Despite the growth of research into everyday memory and memory in applied settings ( e.g. Gruneberg , Morris & Sykes , 1978 , 1988a , 1988b ) and the research and theorising which has been done over some 50 years on the psychology of driver behaviour , there has been virtually no research which directly looks at memory in driving . |
| 12 | Since July 1991 , statistics show there has been around a per cent drop in part-timers . |
| 13 | It suggests that there has been hitherto no perceived need for local authorities to assert the right for denying which in 1891 the court was severely criticised , or to use the right which was held to exist by Browne J. , to whom no submissions were made based on article 10 , in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 in 1972 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ There has been quite a lot of interest , ’ said a spokeswoman . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ There has been quite a bit of hype and I do n't think the film lived up to it . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | There has been quite a lot of speculation on the matter in professional circles . ’ |
| 23 | There has been quite a lot of talk recently about adding enzymes to help the carp digest our sophisticated carp baits . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | There has been quite a bit of inflation since then but even then six million dollars was not a lot . |
| 27 | Ryan O'Neal 's son , Griffin , has also related tales of violent encounters with his dad , saying , ‘ There has been quite an exchange between me and my dad — literally . |
| 28 | It is astonishing to think that in the forty-odd years after the invention of printing , no fewer than ninety-four editions came off the presses of Europe ; and that for four centuries there has been almost no year in which a new edition has not appeared in England . |
| 29 | Yet there has been almost no research into primary school children 's developing historical competence . |
| 30 | There has been almost no concern expressed , however , about the implications of automated office systems for future research methodologies . |