Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [adj] speculation " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is one reason there has been rampant speculation about foreign involvement in the bombings . |
| 2 | There has been strong speculation that Pepsi Cola are putting up the money but David Murray , Rangers ' owner and chairman who bought the club exactly a year ago yesterday , is giving nothing away . |
| 3 | There has been intense speculation that a third country might take Noriega , with Cuba and India being mentioned . |
| 4 | Inevitably there has been considerable speculation on the causes and implications of urban disturbances . |
| 5 | There has been considerable speculation about the position both of the Bank of Edinburgh and some of its shareholders . |
| 6 | There has been growing speculation that the airline intends to transfer its Heathrow shuttle service from Aldergrove to the harbour route . |
| 7 | Singer ( 1958 ) , in a critique of the Boskop Skull which was discovered in 1913 on a Transvaal farm , points out that what may have been justifiable speculation at the beginning of the century is inexcusable now . |
| 8 | Since the news in early March that the leading party in the Basque parliament , the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) was , controversially , in a process of negotiation with ETA 's political wing , Herri Batasuna , there had been increasing speculation that the Spanish government might be considering negotiating a settlement with more moderate elements within the ETA leadership . |
| 9 | There had been intense speculation over whether or not Rawlings would compete in the first free presidential contest since his return to power in a military coup in December 1981 ( having previously chaired the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council which had ruled Ghana from June to September 1979 — see pp. 30437-51 ; 31477-86 ) . |
| 10 | There had been considerable speculation and concern that it was about to do so . |