Example sentences of "there [vb base] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the main news again , there 've been renewed calls tonight for the police to be armed after a community policeman was murdered . |
| 2 | There 've been sixteen escapes in the last two years and staff blame underfunding by the Home Office . |
| 3 | The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents . |
| 4 | Of course , there 've been other , less welcome alterations to their public persona . |
| 5 | He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things . |
| 6 | There 've been such enormous changes . |
| 7 | ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived . |
| 8 | I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way . |
| 9 | There 've been low points , too — not least the fire in January last year which destroyed an entire hangar and its contents at a cost to the Air Force of 40 million . |
| 10 | Every day there 've been two to three flights taking off from Zagreb and flying across disputed territory to Sarajevo . |
| 11 | There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next . |
| 12 | in its first six months the agency has handled half a million cases , but there 've been hundreds of complaints about the way it operates . |
| 13 | Similar escapes in the past — there 've been 16 in 2 years — have prompted officials of the Prison Officers ' Association to suggest video camera surveillance of the blind spot . |
| 14 | ‘ There 've been some fears expressed that we might have an occupation force in Panama , ’ said Senate minority leader Mr Bob Dole . |
| 15 | Well , there 've been some silly things said about this in the Press , and one or two by our colleagues elsewhere . |
| 16 | There 've been some er conversations between the players out on the pitch and an Italian journalist who clearly does n't need a microphone in order to be heard . |
| 17 | There 've been some big by Shrewsbury over the years , I 'll tell ya there 've been some big clubs here in the past years and it looks very much on the cards again tonight , they have got a massive job on their hands now Blackburn to come back into this . |
| 18 | There 've been several attempts to get E Ten right since nineteen eighty . |
| 19 | There 've been several reported sightings of Mr Garvey 's blue Volvo estate car , but as yet non has been confirmed . |
| 20 | Either there 've been thirty-eight other Grandson Richards , and I do n't think that 's what it means , or it 's a newspaper human way of saying he 's thirty-nine years old . |
| 21 | Any new drug in Britain is , every year the G P who 's prescribing that for you gets a letter from a centre down in Southampton to ask if there 've been any adverse reactions . |
| 22 | the Boy Scouts can on there for a number of years , back to the fifties , there 've been excellent tenants of that piece of land . |
| 23 | There have been umpteen books on the subject before , but Ferris brings such sly humour , such a floodgate of poignant details , and such a tone of innocent surprise to the proceedings , that it all reads as much more than a round-up of the usual phenomena . |
| 24 | There have been major rebellions against the imposition of charges for eye and dental tests , for an amendment to grade the poll tax according to ability to pay , and for the second reading of a private members ' bill to liberalize the Official Secrets Act . |
| 25 | In countries such as Bangladesh , for instance , there have been major campaigns to give each village its own borehole and hand pump . |
| 26 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |
| 27 | There have been major changes in both the interface of the police and raped women and in the media coverage . |
| 28 | Secondly , there have been major changes in the amount of rape reported in the press . |
| 29 | There have been major increases in the amount of reporting of rape and other sex crimes in the media . |
| 30 | Having risen strongly over the post-war period until that year , growth stopped ; there have been major fluctuations since , but the total has never been so high again . |