Example sentences of "there have [been] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There have been grade-A hypocrites all through history . |
| 2 | There have been port stations , waterfront interchanges between the railways and the water-borne transport of river , lake , and sea : in the United States , New Bedford , New Haven , and East Boston ; in Canada , Prince Rupert , Vancouver , Montreal ; in Britain , Holyhead , Folkestone Harbour , and Portsmouth Harbour . |
| 3 | It is not only a colour variety but also a more milky strain of the breed and there have been dairy herds of the beloved ‘ Belties ’ , though they would be better described as dual-purpose cattle . |
| 4 | Within living memory there have been cathedral organists who have taught their skills to articled pupils . |
| 5 | For example , there have been government efforts to influence the price of land and to curb land speculations government intervention in the money market , and government manipulation of the costs and benefits of various statuses in the housing market by means of taxation and social security policy . |
| 6 | There have been presentation graphics programs around for several years now in the PC marketplace ; programs such as Harvard Graphics , Lotus Freelance , Daverelle , Genigraphics and 35mm Express , all merrily turning out graphs , charts and text for use as presentation aids . |
| 7 | In the last decade there have been strike calls from county conferences in the more militant areas like Norfolk , Essex and Yorkshire , but the union 's Executive Committee , which has the sole right to order strike action , has sought to maintain centralized control over any militant activity . |
| 8 | ‘ Would there have been criticism of any other retailer doing the same ? ’ , he asked . |
| 9 | There have been teething troubles with the monorail and cable-car ( essential accessories in the futuristic world of expos ) . |
| 10 | In the past we have been able to help out when there have been settlement and clearing difficulties and are ready to do the same again . ’ |
| 11 | The Ulster ceasefire was not unexpected — there have been Christmas truces in previous years . |
| 12 | There have been research monographs on corporate crime and law enforcement processes in America ( Clinard and Yeager 1980 ) , Australia ( Hopkins 1978 ) , Britain ( Carson 1981 ; Carson and Martin 1974 ) , and Canada ( Goff and Reasons 1978 ) . |
| 13 | There have been personality clashes , difference of opinion on degrees of centralisation and devolution , but , quite apart from successes in individual subject projects , it has been shown that in at least one instance , a local curriculum committee can be made to work productively , a model well worth studying . |
| 14 | We regret very much the fact that there have been job losses in the defence industry — of course — and the figure is 25,000 — If the hon. Gentleman will not even listen to the reply to his argument it is his loss . |
| 15 | In recent years there have been language conflicts in Spain , Wales , India and South Africa and more recently in the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia — as different ethnic groups have chosen the language they love as a rallying point . |
| 16 | There have been coal stations and milk stations . |
| 17 | This can be useful during the occasional compulsory attendance at official Indonesian functions , or when waiting in government offices for filming permits to be granted ; but there have been dinner parties , at which he was the guest of honour , when he was actually thought to have died at table . |
| 18 | There have been racecourse stations , such as Newbury Racecourse and Aintree . |
| 19 | Airline pilots commonly have difficulty in sleeping properly after long flights , especially when there have been time-zone changes . |
| 20 | Instead , there have been fear , outrage , and what the papers call ‘ dioxin psychosis ’ . |
| 21 | In Teheran , there have been power cuts , and even basic food stuffs have been short . |