Example sentences of "there have [be] on " in BNC.

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1 there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing .
2 There was no volte-face here as there had been on religion .
3 The two men already there had been on duty now for two hours .
4 They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note .
5 Over recent years there have been on average over 100 children per year injured in accidents whilst on journeys to or from school ( see Table 28 ) .
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