Example sentences of "there [verb] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
2 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
5 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
6 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |
7 | Even when the preference is weak , the switch will not occur unless there has been time for the predators to learn how to handle the other ( now abundant ) species . |
8 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
9 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
10 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
11 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
12 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
13 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
14 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
15 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
16 | There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment . |
17 | As with school meals , there had been pressure for a generation for free medical treatment of schoolchildren from doctors and philanthropists . |
18 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
19 | The Maronites were later to claim that there had been provocation for the killings but the attack appeared to have been carefully planned . |
20 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
21 | There had been applause for all the ‘ fraternal delegates and distinguished visitors ’ including Fianna Fail , Fine Gael and Labour . |
22 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
23 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
24 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
25 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
26 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
27 | There have been calls for his resignation , which he has ignored . |
28 | There have been calls for the Bank to issue more debt at the short end , to take advantage of lower short rates . |
29 | None of these possibilities is countenanced by competition policy in any of the three jurisdictions previously discussed , though there have been calls for a more protectionist approach in the US . |
30 | This of course is a value judgement which a government is entitled to make , but it is one which some economists would argue is not fully justified by the evidence , on the basis of which there have been calls for much more stringent control . |