Example sentences of "there have [be] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been the usual talk of ‘ insecurity ’ and maybe so , although this fashionable ‘ insecurity ’ is a very glib key which seems to fit every known lock . |
| 2 | In order to give the House of Lords a more effective role in the governmental process ( and in order to buttress its position against the threat of abolition ) there is the recognition that it needs to secure increased public support , and in order to secure that there has been the dawning realisation that changes are needed in the composition of the second chamber . |
| 3 | There has been the occasional quickening of the establishment pulse from time to time when one in line to succeed to the Crown has seemed to develop too intense an interest in a Roman Catholic but despite that , the anticipated line of succession has been perfectly followed subject to only one scandalous disruption when Edward VIII preferred to marry a divorcee to retaining the monarchy . |
| 4 | The weather has been very pleasant on the whole — sometimes a little too hot for comfort , but there has been the occasional rain-storm which has been refreshing . |
| 5 | Apart from this industrial , political , and mob violence , however , there has been the ongoing pressure of the seemingly inexorably high level of ‘ ordinary ’ crime , the control of which has been high on the agenda for ten years . |
| 6 | There has been a failure to see constitutional theory and political practice as in dynamic interaction each with the other ; there has been a failure to recognise that interpretations of the constitution are always relative to time , place , and our position as observers ; and so there has been the simple view that the constitutional set-up as it is , as it is said to be , and as it is said it should be , have all been as of one . |
| 7 | Within education there has been the long standing view that the individual teacher is the key resource to developing and delivering a high quality service . |
| 8 | There has been the odd dig at me , of course , oddly enough usually in the course of singles reviews and usually by women on the staff . |
| 9 | As affectivity is the most obscure side of man , there has been the constant temptation to resort to it , forgetting that what is refractory to explanation ipso facto unsuitable for use in explanation . |
| 10 | Since then , there has been the three-day hearing before Mr Coutts , and the two-day appeal . |
| 11 | At the same time , there has been the inevitable steep rise in the cost of maintenance of the parish church and presbytery . |
| 12 | No doubt there 'd been the usual spate of Friday night burglaries , too . |
| 13 | The calls had come from a call-box because there 'd been the call-box signal before the money was put in . |
| 14 | There had been the occasional martial bishops , of course , ever since Odo of Bayeux came across with the Conqueror , not least perhaps because of the knightly or aristocratic houses from which some prelates came , but also because the bishop was often the sole or wealthiest magnate present to defend an exposed region when so many others were away on continental engagements . |
| 15 | There had been the long drift through cold spring into hot summer ; the long sinking into the mercies and bossiness of her friends and thence into the arms of the medical profession ; the final humiliation of accepting , because she was too inert to refuse , money from Rachel . |
| 16 | There had been the usual time-consuming , wearying and slightly acrimonious preliminaries to the setting up of the new squad in C1 and already his mind was reaching out with relief to the solitary contemplation of alabaster effigies , sixteenth-century glass and the awesome decorations of Winchfield . |
| 17 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |
| 18 | There had been the usual final frenzy to get the parks ready for festival week , and various people had been smitten with untimely summer flu . |
| 19 | Finally , there had been the additional attraction of the Foundation of St Sylvester 's Betterhouse . |
| 20 | Around the turn of the century there had been the great triumvirate of Braid , Vardon , and Taylor but American dominance was established between the wars in the shape of Walter Hagen , who won the Open four times , and Gene Sarazen . |
| 21 | There had been the curious tale of the Argentinian scrap metal merchants who had landed on the island of South Georgia , where the United Kingdom had exercised sovereignty since it was discovered by Captain Cook in I775 . |
| 22 | While outer differences did not matter much , deeper causes of conflict might exist and already there had been the disastrous schism on doctrinal grounds between the Church of the East and the Church of the West . |
| 23 | There had been the natural initial shock of disbelief at hearing of the unexpected death of any person even casually known . |
| 24 | There had been the regrettable occasion in the Chamber when he had kissed the Labour Party 's spokesman for the Arts , a Mr Mark Fisher , on his bald pate , an escapade that had attracted what his wife Marjorie had called ‘ bloody bad publicity ’ . |
| 25 | She came up to me with , I noticed , slightly less bounce in her step than there had been the previous day . |
| 26 | Would there be cakes and ‘ Happy Birthday , Jesus ’ from the guards as there had been the previous two Christmases ? |
| 27 | Since that time , interest rates have increased and there have been the well publicised problems in the sector . |
| 28 | Along with the clatter of clunk-clicking up and down the nation this week , there have been the usual apocryphal murmurings about the dangers of seat belts . |
| 29 | There have been the odd sour ones , from men who object to what they call sexism in the Labour Party , ie , ‘ assisted places ’ on the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 30 | There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play , that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes . |