Example sentences of "there have been an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been an implicit triangularity about much of the preceding discussion which can be explored further , although as with all models of the curriculum , this one simplifies the reality . |
| 2 | There has been an encouraging 23% increase in general manufacturing R&D expenditure , but yet again , as a percentage of profits , the UK 's 11.7% does not compare healthily with the global 95.4% . |
| 3 | There has been an encouraging response since the club advertised a few days ago . |
| 4 | Certainly , there has been an encouraging amount of interest at our own showrooms . ’ |
| 5 | There has been an 85 per cent . |
| 6 | Here , though there has been an extensive debate on the practice concerning long run versus short run , economic theory is essentially clear cut . |
| 7 | Many authorities have taken this up with enthusiasm , and there has been an impressive increase in consumer research ( Appleby et al. |
| 8 | During recent years there has been an increased use of audiovisual media such as tape-slides , films and video-tape , and to a certain extent computer-based instruction . |
| 9 | Inevitably , there has been an increased distrust of party politics in the lesbian and gay communities since the Clause debacle . |
| 10 | In recent years there has been an increased reliance on statute law , for example , in relation to public order and the powers of the police , but , of course , here too , the judges have a role to play in the interpretation of the statutory provisions . |
| 11 | Since that time there has been an increased awareness that myofibroblast type cells are part of the normal structure of many tissues , including the umbilical cord , lung , and colon . |
| 12 | The article also states that the burden of proof that a standard term has been individually negotiated falls on the seller or supplier , but given the provisions set out in the previous paragraph , it is hard to see how this burden can ever be discharged , unless there has been an individual negotiation at which both parties actually discussed and wrote out the clause in question for the first time . |
| 13 | It is this portability aspect of programs , and the conventional hardware — software distinction that goes with it , that has most interested those in AI who have concerned themselves with the relation of brains to minds : there has been an easy temptation to exploit the hardware — software distinction as a model of the brain — mind distinction . |
| 14 | Miss Bowes said : ‘ There has been an upward trend in rates in the last few weeks because it looked like Labour were going to win . |
| 15 | Between 1970 and 1990 there has been an average total increase of general practitioners by 500 a year ( 1.5% ) . |
| 16 | Since 1983 , there has been an average annual increase in VSA deaths of 5.4% per annum . |
| 17 | For many years there has been an ongoing debate concerning the human author of the first five books of the bible . |
| 18 | In recent years there has been an ongoing controversy relating to unmated females . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ There has been an unacceptable increase in the crime figures year by year since this Conservative government came to office in 1979 . |
| 20 | Thus although the Bank of England has been obliged to restore the amount of cash it had withdrawn from the system , there has been an equal and opposite decrease in bills plus money at call held by the banks . |
| 21 | At the same time there has been an uncertain analysis of the relationship between management and leadership . |
| 22 | As the changeover from traditional courses gathers pace , it is interesting to note that there has been an overall increase in the uptake of advanced level awards . |
| 23 | Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places . |
| 24 | In the last few years there has been an increasing realization that many modern production methods are not only very wasteful but probably also unnecessary … |
| 25 | There has been an increasing trend also for forestry workers to live in towns and be transported to work so creating further rural depopulation . |
| 26 | In times gone by Dutch cattle were dual-purpose types , as meat was required from the dairy herd as well as milk , but since the early 1970s there has been an increasing use of American Holstein-Friesians in the Netherlands to increase the milk yields of the Dutch Friesian ( which has lower yields than the Holstein type but a higher proportion of solids in the milk ) . |
| 27 | During recent years there has been an increasing interest in the use of audio-visual media such as films , video-tapes , tape-slide presentations and audio-tapes for library user education . |
| 28 | While on the part of the state there has been a continual and almost unlimited welcome for the mining multinationals , there has been an increasing sophistication in the response by communities confronted by them . |
| 29 | There has been an increasing professionalism of industrial relations management in Britain and , as noted by Goodman : |
| 30 | In recent years there has been an increasing tendency in some circles to investigate the evolutionary record of fossils in terms of general rules and processes without regard to specific causes operating on specific taxa . |