Example sentences of "there has [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 Much also depends upon local employment conditions , for , with a few exceptions , the greatest decline has taken place where there has been the greatest competition for labour , principally in the South East , in the West Midlands and in South Wales .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Since then , there has been the three-day hearing before Mr Coutts , and the two-day appeal .
12 At the same time , there has been the inevitable steep rise in the cost of maintenance of the parish church and presbytery .
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