Example sentences of "there have [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then there have been the more elaborate perversions which parody the sophistication of high art — Joe Orton 's and Kenneth Halliwell 's defacing of library books , Duchamp 's moustache on Mona Lisa . |
| 2 | There have been the predictable complaints that people increasingly prefer to watch than to play , that we are producing a generation of armchair athletes . |
| 3 | There have been the odd sour ones , from men who object to what they call sexism in the Labour Party , ie , ‘ assisted places ’ on the Shadow Cabinet . |
| 4 | Along with the clatter of clunk-clicking up and down the nation this week , there have been the usual apocryphal murmurings about the dangers of seat belts . |
| 5 | Very recently , in the 1950s and 1960s , there have been the Rex cats and the Scottish Fold cat , and even more recently the Somali and the Burmilla , although these are little more than crosses . |
| 6 | Abroad , there have been the horrors of Bosnia and Somalia . |
| 7 | Since that time , interest rates have increased and there have been the well publicised problems in the sector . |
| 8 | More recently , there have been the objections against council housing developments by environmentalists seeking to halt urban encroachment , and existing owner occupied rural dwellers who want to halt particular forms of residential development . |
| 9 | If Tommy Carr played for say Carlow , or perhaps Sligo or maybe Fermanagh , would there have been the same fuss ? |