Find the word definition

Wiktionary
there has been

vb. (past participle of there be English)

Usage examples of "there has been".

I am aware that there has been a good deal said in poetry about the fringed gentian and the harebell of rocky districts and waysides, and I know that it is possible for maidens to bloom in very slight soil into a wild-wood grace and beauty.

Over this vexed question there has been waged an acrimonious war of words, which has apparently led to no decision, nor any convictions--the disputants, one and all, remaining on the sides of the controversy occupied by them when the debate began.

I've come across one or two worlds where there has been so much of it that to all intents and purposes it formed a new language.

During the past century there has been considerable advancement in the development of the awareness and usage of the 'gifts of the spirit' and with this, the personalities of the spirit guides have become an accepted part of psychic science.

And just like kudzu, it grows up anywhere there has been a disturbance like a fire or tree-clearing.

Clearly there has been a modicum of evolution here since the colony was seeded.

Since Oprah decided to do something about it, there has been a noticeable upswing in book sales, and writers are once again considered to be cool people rather than dinosaurs.

Since then there has been a lot of noise and shouting, but little has changed.

And a mortal enmity is constituted by the following circumstances: when there is a death feud or vendetta between the parties, or when there has been an attempted homicide, or some serious wound or injury which manifestly shows that there is mortal hatred on the part of the witness against the prisoner, And in such a case it is presumed that, just as the witness has tried to inflict temporal death on the prisoner by wounding him, so he will also be willing to effect his object by accusing him of heresy.

In like manner where there has been a mortality of cattle in any district, he makes good the loss to the sufferers from those belonging to himself, which he has received as his tenth of produce in other provinces.