Example sentences of "there have [been] [noun] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I would state my own area ; we 've put residents ' parking into the south and the east and the west , but the north , as yet , has not come into it and erm traffic management is carefully monitored and erm developers that come have to provide certain amounts towards management within the area and there have been developments within North Oxford and there has been money available , and we 've not seen any of it yet , and we would , on certain occasions , like to know why .
2 There 've been visitors each day for the past year and a half to this quiet corner of the Whitworth Road Cemetery in Swindon .
3 There had been speculation that
4 Why , there had been Macphersons grinding flour in the Tollemarche district sixty years ago , and it had taken her years of hard infighting to reach her present exalted rank ; now this woman was , after only twelve months of residence , her vice-president .
5 But , since William Henry Payne set up his own practice in London in 1892 , there have been Paynes all the way down the line — including two sons , a grandson ( the current senior partner ) and a great grandson — another William — who joined this year .
6 There have been men such as Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( 1772–1834 ) and C. S. Lewis who were so rooted in the Christian gospel that their ‘ romanticism ’ was clearly a prophetic warning against modernity .
7 There have been perks.This new classroom unit is one of them … paid for by extra money from the government …
8 There have been occasions this season when Quakers have taken the lead and then sloppily folded ; but this time the players rolled up their sleeves to jealously protect the three points .
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