Example sentences of "have [be] a [n mass] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | As a result of new technology there has been a 50% job loss in the US . |
| 2 | Merseyside 's leading housing advice group also says that over the last year there has been a 100pc rise in the number of young homeless being referred to it . |
| 3 | The product is now in the last stages of beta testing with 19 customers chosen by BT , and Phonelink chief executive Trevor Burke claims there has been a 95% take-up rate . |
| 4 | Fortunately the snows on EVEREST have eased , and there has been a £95m improvement in non-performing loans for the 9 months up to 31st December 1992 AD . |
| 5 | There has been a waterworks at Bocking since 1912 , and the two boreholes now extract five million litres of water a day which is then pumped to the Panfield reservoir , where it is mixed with water from other sources at Petches Bridge , Codham and Notley Road . |
| 6 | Terry has been a staff instructor at Plas y Brenin until this summer . |
| 7 | Is the Minister aware that since he was first appointed to the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food in 1985 there has been a £28 billion food deficit , which amounts to £15 million per year or £1,200 per household ? |
| 8 | The study comes at a time when many health authorities are reducing the number of clinics and there has been a 35% rise in teenage pregnancy rates over the last 10 years . |
| 9 | According to the quarterly survey of the Construction Employers ' Federation , there has been a 12pc increase in the number of firms reporting lower tender prices , and that the building sector in Ulster is still struggling to climb out of recession . |
| 10 | Action has been a means , not an end . |
| 11 | ‘ Since our major programs lasted for a decade or more , some observers have mistakenly , in my opinion , concluded that Highlander has been a series of schools . |
| 12 | For instance in one area recently there has been a series of protests and demonstrations regarding poor and inadequate housing conditions , the majority of the members of the committees which were responsible for organising the protests are members of the IRA . |
| 13 | They too were identified in the Royal Commission and , similarly , there has been a series of developments in the intervening decade . |
| 14 | Since the late 1960s there has been a series of overlapping periods of local government reform , each of which helps to illustrate some key theoretical debates about the state . |
| 15 | There has been a series of trials within the Engineering Branch of the RAF of the technologies related to expert systems over the past 5 to 10 years . |
| 16 | I 've never claimed much ; I 've never claimed to be a great original ; my life has been a series of accidents with me just sort of helping along . ’ |
| 17 | For regulationist theories the history of capitalist development has been a series of phases each dominated by a different combination of regime of accumulation and mode of regulation . |
| 18 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 19 | Among the initiatives which have recently emerged under the QSF umbrella has been a series of ‘ experience exchange days ’ where people involved in the quality programme in one company visit another to study its achievements . |
| 20 | There has been a series on Edinburgh , although only one of them , Sean Connery 's Edinburgh ( 1982 ) , was actually commissioned as such by the City Council . |
| 21 | Right across the company there has been a series of initiatives to make it even more effective . |
| 22 | Michael Crawford 's career , until now , has been a series of brilliant firework bursts which have never quite ignited into an enduring setpiece that sets the sky alight . |
| 23 | and as you well know there has been a series of meetings in |
| 24 | But Mr Marshall says that while there may have been a 15% reduction in area , overall output may be only 10% lower . |
| 25 | The CAA believes it may well have been a 99p UFO Solar , and warns buyers to take note of Article 75 of the ANO which restricts captive balloon and kite-flying to a height of sixty metres agl and forbids it within five kilometres of an aerodrome . |
| 26 | The area of Gallia Ulterior conceded to the Alans may well have been that area which had supported Tibatto , and the grant may well have been a means of punishing the rebels and keeping them under surveillance , as well as being a reward for the followers of Goar . |
| 27 | Er we said last week that the on the only , the only real way that the peasants were gon na er mobilize was if they , they thought that they could actually win and so surely the violence would have been a means of saying we 're a credible force to be reckoned with |
| 28 | FEBRUARY , May and August could be seen as rehearsals for November 's main event so that what may have been a series of happenings in these months could lead to November 's denouement . |
| 29 | This could easily have been a series of practices such as our own in areas where no education or communication with the local general practitioners took place . |
| 30 | Winter frosts would have annually disrupted the surfaces , as happened to the coach roads of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries before the invention of Mr Macadam ; the end result would have been a series of monumental ruts and pot-holes . |