Example sentences of "there have been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should there have been a better on-site fire squad ? |
| 2 | There have been a small number of fairly successful conservation projects , notably Chang Mei , and at Ma Sae ( UNEP 1979 : 83 ) , but they do not materially detract from the view that Thai conservation policy is not succeeding in reversing national trends of rapid forest clearance and increasing erosion hazards . |
| 3 | It is not surprising , for there have been a great many developments aimed at putting more carp on the bank . |
| 4 | Over the years there have been a great number of electronic games concocted for the hobbyist , including one or two cricket games . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the very fact that the study of inequality is the central issue means that there have been a great variety of competing theories and concepts attempting to describe and explain it . |
| 6 | There have been a great many studies of market failures which provide an a priori case for Intervention — welfare economics texts such as Broadway and Bruce ( 1984 ) or summary chapters in books such as Varian ( 1978 ) will serve . |
| 7 | In particular the debate focusses on the American variety of independent film , of which there have been a large number at this year 's festival , ranging from Jim Jarmusch 's annoyingly fashionable Mystery Train to Julia Cameron 's God 's Will , which cost only 31,000 dollars to make . |
| 8 | There have been a large number of studies which have sought to establish the validity and accuracy of replies to this sort of question . |
| 9 | For example , there have been a large number of initiatives by local authorities in recent years intended to improve the local economy , many of which have been undertaken under section 137 of the Local Government Act 1972 , to incur expenditure which in the authority 's opinion is in the interests of their area . |
| 10 | There have been a large number of syntactic theories proposed and an even larger number of parsing systems developed . |
| 11 | Fortunately there have been a large number of more recent studies which have used more meaningful manipulations of arousal . |
| 12 | 2.8 There have been a large number of judicial observations over the years about the general nature of the remedy established by fatal accidents legislation . |
| 13 | Though the majority of those reviewing Braverman 's work took a positive view of his thesis , there have been a significant number of detailed criticisms and revisions to his argument . |
| 14 | During the period under discussion there have been a considerable number of such pressure groups — for example , the Nationwide Festival of Light ; the Order of Christian Unity ; the Responsible Society ; the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child , LIFE , as well as a host of other , smaller groups — most of which actually originated in this period . |
| 15 | In the past , many researchers have tended to underplay the problems that arose in the process of research in case they affected the evaluation of their results , although there have been a few ex post disclosures in books intended to show social research as often a messy enterprise ( Bell and Newby 1977 ; Bell and Roberts 1984 ) . |
| 16 | There have been a few hostile bids , most notably that by Paribas for a conglomerate , Navigation Mixte . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , there have been a few more hurdles since then . |
| 18 | We have not yet succeeded in creating reliable reproduction of touch , taste or smell , although there have been a few experiments . |
| 19 | I have discovered those which for various reasons I did not feel comfortable with ; on the other hand , there have been a few works which I could as my personal luxury ! |
| 20 | No one has ever refused to go up , but there have been a few that needed coaxing down ! ’ |
| 21 | Otherwise , some people would indeed quite literally eat themselves to death — in fact there have been a few cases of disturbed people doing just that in recent years . |
| 22 | While there have been a few , if any , import restrictions on EC goods coming into this country , our community partners have astutely managed to find ways to restrict the flow of British goods into theirs . |
| 23 | There have been a few moments during the making of Aspel and Company which have aged me considerably — but then I comfort myself with the thought that life would be very dull without any crises to get the heart racing . |
| 24 | THERE HAVE been a few tactical errors made in the winter lists of new rugby books . |
| 25 | There have been a few uneasy ripples around the cricket fields of Glamorgan this season , of course . |
| 26 | While there have been a few studies of women offenders , investiga-tors have generally looked upon the difference between masculine and feminine criminality merely as a reason for eliminating female subjects from their researches on the ground that they provide insufficient material . |
| 27 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 28 | Although there have been a few gains , these have been outweighed by the losses . |
| 29 | But there have been a few problems in trying to explain to the Chinese the finer points of a fish supper . |
| 30 | There have been a few interventions . |