Example sentences of "there be [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike , has there been extra pressure on you during the past year not to flirt at your radio station ? ’ |
| 2 | Nor has there been much change in the pattern of support from the family . |
| 3 | Why has there been much unemployment in Glasgow and Clydeside during the last 50 years ? |
| 4 | The cyclotron was a research facility through into the 1980s , but was an expensive and remarkable piece of equipment to have appeared in the 1950s in a country where , neither before nor since , has there been much cash for anything scientific . |
| 5 | Saner , Engineer to the Weaver Navigation , in his report to the Royal Commission on Inland Navigations in 1906 mentions Foxton Lift and its costly foundations , which might have been greatly reduced had the subsoil been of a nature or had there been available experience such as that gained in the course of the project . |
| 6 | Of course , the Conservatives won again in 1983 , but the fact that they secured two-thirds of the seats in the Commons with less than half of the popular vote encouraged the centre parties to cry still louder for electoral reform at the same time as the Left were forced to ponder on the fact that had there been proportional representation then the Conservatives would not have been able to form a government without the moderating support of another party in the coalition . |
| 7 | Not only has there been strong opposition to trade unionism and lack of support for union security at enterprise level by employers ( particularly those in small , paternalistic firms ) but trade unions have also not regarded the negotiation of agreements and protection of immediate job interests — certainly at plant level — as their central concern . |
| 8 | Had there been sufficient daylight I believe I could , that evening , have turned the tables on the tigress , for the conditions , after she left the shelter of the rocks , were all in my favour . |
| 9 | Has there been exceptional wastage ? |
| 10 | After a moment she added , in an offhand tone , ‘ By the way , have there been any phone calls this week when I 've been out ? ’ |
| 11 | Neither has there been any work relating the relaxation of currency controls and the establishment of convertibility within the European Payments Union to changes in the volume and pattern of foreign trade . |
| 12 | Nor has there been any discussion of the growing requirement in the UK ( as elsewhere ) to carry out an environmental impact assessment for all major developments . |
| 13 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
| 14 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 15 | Had there been any trouble . ’ |
| 16 | First , had there been any illegality of which the court should take note . |
| 17 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 18 | With the recent mainstream success of a number of blues albums — John Lee Hooker 's , for instance , and Gary Moore 's — has there been any let-up in the record company pressure on Robert Cray to widen his commercial appeal ? |
| 19 | At no time had there been any hint that France should try to benefit from the British embarrassment during this critical period , though the press published sharp attacks on the British policy of reprisals after the Mutiny was over . |
| 20 | Has there been any investigation as to what the potential users want from the system ? |
| 21 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 22 | ‘ Had there been some sort of quarrel ? ’ |
| 23 | Had there been another voice ? |
| 24 | Had there been another reason ? |
| 25 | At no time in history has there been more opportunity for a middle-class person to rise , yet , at the same time , the possibility of falling to great depths has similarly increased . |
| 26 | In practice the question therefore resolves itself into : Has there been enough time for enough successive generations ? |
| 27 | There are 16 steam engines waiting to take you for a ride from Northiam , the setting for Anneka Rice 's famous ‘ Challenge ’ , to historic Tenterden , the station seen in ITV 's ‘ The Darling Buds of May ’ — you can even travel in Ma Larkin 's steam train ! |
| 28 | There are annual morel festivals in four Michigan towns . |
| 29 | Within geology , there are other communication media , such as excursion guides and reports of meetings . |
| 30 | There are other saltire designs , indeed there are other mosaics which share stylistic traits with the saltire arrangements , but all of these will be considered below . |