Example sentences of "[noun] there had been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 2 | Ann Wigglesworth observed that when Augustine and Indir Borde had come for the Church of Scotland there had been a considerable delay and difficulty in getting their work permits and Ros Lyle brought evidence from the Welsh Presbyterial Church and Council for World Mission , where political pressure was needed in order to secure a permit for someone . |
| 3 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 4 | There was the cold empty space in the bed beside her , the space where for over thirty years there had been a warm , reassuring presence . |
| 5 | If it could be shown that over the years there had been a major redistribution of wealth from the rich to the poor , this would indicate a reduction in class inequalities . |
| 6 | In recent years there had been a considerable increase in the revenue derived from tourism . |
| 7 | When she had asked his name there had been a slight , but noticeable , hesitation before he 'd answered . |
| 8 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 9 | In addition there had been a positive international response , including a US$400,000,000 World Bank emergency loan , to the June earthquake [ see pp. 37521-22 ] . |
| 10 | In Latin America and the Caribbean there had been a marked shift from homosexual to heterosexual transmission . |
| 11 | Although a significant feature of the 1990 accounts was the substantial fall in the value of investments there had been a significant recovery of the losses so far in 1991 : |
| 12 | From the start there had been a strong streak of elitism in their outlook . |
| 13 | Jock laughingly informed me that when he had arrived in the area there had been a short quiet spell . |
| 14 | For a month there had been a damaging public dispute between Mr Heseltine , who backed a European Consortium bid to link with Westland , the British helicopter company , and Mr Brittan , the Trade and Industry minister , who favoured an American bid . |
| 15 | That morning there had been a renewed run on the Bank , and he asked his colleagues to share with him the burdens both of office and self-sacrifice . |
| 16 | On the Long Drive there had been a whole truck for them . |
| 17 | He had found nothing more , except that on the beaten earth of the floor there had been a single dark stain , from what he could not tell . |
| 18 | Also , after the Jacobite Wars there had been a gradual but continuing improvement of the main roads in Britain . |
| 19 | In the autumn there had been a great commotion when a large party of the King 's and Warden 's men , some fifty of them , mounted and heavily armed , gathered on Steep Ridgery and carefully marked where the plumes of smoke were rising — often there were more than one — and made off purposefully towards them . |
| 20 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 21 | In the meantime there had been a major change in the political landscape of Derry , with the announcement on 22 November of the imminent abolition of Londonderry Corporation and the appointment of a Development Commission to run the city 's affairs . |
| 22 | During the 18th century there had been a slavish adherence to Isaac Newton 's methods and notation long after Continental mathematicians had developed more efficient techniques . |
| 23 | Indeed the railway companies resisted the idea of workmen 's trains , for which from the middle of the nineteenth century there had been a vocal lobby . |
| 24 | By the late eighteenth century there had been a remarkable increase in the average height of British cattle . |
| 25 | The local authority appealed against the orders and sought an interim care order on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had erred in law when they had made the order preventing the parents from having contact with each other as contact between adults was not a step which could be taken by a parent in meeting his responsibilities towards his child and thus fell outside the terms of section 8(1) of the Children Act 1989 ; ( 2 ) there had been no application for a section 8 order and before exercising powers under section 10(1) ( b ) of the Act of 1989 the justices should have invited the parties to make representations , and the failure to do so was a material irregularity ; ( 3 ) the justices , having found as a fact that the parents had been in continuous contact and there were grounds for believing that the children would suffer harm , had been plainly wrong in refusing to make the interim care order in respect of both children in that they had failed to have regard to the facts that both parents had colluded over injuries to D. , the mother had lied when she had stated that there had been no contact with the father , the father had been in breach of a bail order there had been a violent incident on 23 November 1991 which had involved both parents , the mother had refused to be accommodated with the children in a mother and baby home , and the mother had changed her mind about the adoption of R. ; and ( 4 ) in all the circumstances the order which would have been in the best interests of the children and which the justices should have made was an interim care order . |
| 26 | It was only released to the world , after translation , in 1921 when Richard Haehl procured the manuscript from Hahnemann 's ancestors by which time there had been a great establishment of homœopathy by J.T. Kent and those who followed him . |
| 27 | Prior to independence in 1975 Angola was the world 's fourth-largest coffee exporter , but since that time there had been a dramatic drop in production . |