Example sentences of "had [ex0] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we were first warned , I did n't really pay much attention to what was being said about it — the same problem had flared up at both Jersey House and the hotel I 'd just left but in neither case had there been prolonged cause for concern . |
| 2 | Had BR had more time and more funding , had the government been more sympathetic towards the railway investment and had there been no recession , the APT might have eventually been successful — but that is another story . |
| 3 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 4 | Never before had there been so savage a fiscal squeeze ; not since the thirties had there been a comparable increase in unemployment , now approaching 3 million . |
| 5 | Nor had there been any sort of cultural rethink sufficient to justify the confidence American companies were now placing in British filmmakers . |
| 6 | Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it . |
| 7 | One senior official of the European Commission said recently that , had there been a common Community defence policy , it would have committed forces to the Gulf . |
| 8 | There was naturally much rejoicing in Britain that the worm was turning in 1989–90 , but there would have been more had there been a spinner or two in the team . |
| 9 | Nor had there been any talk of her — that she looked ill , or had been ill — nothing at all . |
| 10 | Can we imagine , for instance , that rulers could effectively have articulated their image through Christ , had there been no religious feeling in society as a whole to which appeal could be made , when they projected the Christ-image of rule ? |
| 11 | Never before had there been as many as nine of his members in a Masters field and every one of them made the cut . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 15 | Had there been more ? |
| 16 | One early writer , John of Damascus , said : ‘ Had there been anything of me not assumed ( by the Word of God ) it would not have been saved , . |
| 17 | Never before had there been such a team put out by any club . ’ |
| 18 | Had there been only one man in the carriage with the woman the explanation would have been obvious . |
| 19 | Nor had there been any to the east of the water . |
| 20 | Had there been any sign of their ill-treating her he would have gone straight at them , hopelessly , with his knife alone . |
| 21 | A hundred feet would see me clear of the danger zone , and this distance I covered foot by foot , walking sideways with my face to the rocks and the rifle to my shoulder ; a strange mode of progress , had there been any to see it . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | She lavished upon them the sort of affection she would have given to her family had there been any . |
| 24 | Had there been no polls , the result would not have caused such unanimous amazement . |
| 25 | We can only speculate on what might have been had there been a full-hearted commitment to PR and a working agreement with the Lib Dems . |
| 26 | Eve had never felt remotely like a charity child , nor had there been any pressure on her to join the Order . |
| 27 | The attitudes of the different students interested Paul ; he was popular among them as a tutor , and had there been women among them , might well have become interested in one of these . |
| 28 | Had there been a verification that nuclear fusion did occur in solids at room temperature , here is one theorist , and I am sure I speak for many colleagues , who would have taken up the new field to see what fundamental implications it had . |
| 29 | The occasional and unfortunate accidents have been due to inadequate safety procedures , not to lack of understanding of the basic nuclear processes ; had there been some previously unknown nuclear process taking place at room temperature in solid materials and that had been somehow overlooked , then it is likely that we would have discovered this long ago in some reactor . |
| 30 | Not since the fire at Alexandria had there been such a concentration of the world 's True Knowledge in one building . |