Example sentences of "there have [been] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In the main there has been little work to evaluate the effects of the other demographic and economic factors listed in table 6.2 .
2 As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation .
3 Opportunities for dual qualification , in both education and librarianship , barely existed until the pioneer establishment of a Teacher-Librarianship Diploma at University College London in the late 1960s , and although a variety of different courses are now emerging there has been precious little encouragement or inducement for ambitious people to take advantage of them .
4 But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ?
5 As you know there have been the history of it is , is well known to most commissioners I 'm sure , there have been m there has been more than one attempt in the recent , in the last decade to bring something to the assembly er along these lines .
6 Although there has been much detailed study of the effects of tariff reduction in western Europe over the period 1945-68 there has been virtually no research into the impact on foreign trade and national balances of payments of the removal of non-tariff barriers , especially the quotas which had been widely imposed from 1931 onwards .
7 ‘ Following the elections there has been less high profile security presence in the area , ’ he said , adding that some time ago he asked for extra security measures for the town .
8 ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’
9 Some critics say there has not been enough action over Aids while others complain there has been too much .
10 For those who have survived the recession intact there has been too much self-interest , need and greed , stab and grab , call it what you will , and companies I believe are suddenly beginning to realise that integrity , ethics and pragmatism may have a ‘ bottom line ’ value in the years to come that the accountant 's profit culture attitude may change a little .
11 He could n't pretend there 'd been just the two of them . ’
12 He was sure there had been more when he first arrived ; they had been scuttling about all over the place , carrying implements , standing on stools stirring steaming mixtures , chopping things and throwing bits and pieces into cauldrons .
13 The pious hush in there had been too much for them .
14 At first I thought that was why the police wanted him , because the sort of way we were thinking in there had been definitely subversive , I mean they do n't teach you that in school eh !
15 Perhaps the honourable member should do a competitiveness survey and go somewhere else for his queue , I do n't know but what I can tell the honourable gentleman is that even though there were losses in the banking industry for the last year there have been strongly offsetting rises in insurance and business services .
16 The two main areas that I 'm thinking of are in Northamptonshire where the iron ore works there have been completely exhausted and the other is Consett in County Durham .
17 That shows how much energy is available , and it is very attractive to try and harness this , but since the turn of the century there have been over a hundred patented devices to extract energy from the waves , but we still do n't have a single commercial one operating .
18 In several African and South American states there have been far more serious incidents in which large numbers of people have been killed .
19 Marriner for much of the time manages to give the illusion in his clean , sympathetic approach that this is prime Tchaikovsky , and through there have been more rip-roaring accounts of the close , none has been better played .
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