Example sentences of "[adj] there had been [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 2 | At the end of 1067 there had been a great fire which had made nearly all the buildings unusable except the dormitory , the refectory , and enough of the cloister to make it possible for the monks to walk from one building to another without getting wet . |
| 3 | By early 1940 there had been a substantial drift-back of evacuees to the cities : something like 80% had returned . |
| 4 | But then , having thrown away the chance of greater equality , women gradually proceeded to win it back by devious ways until by 1960 there had been a stealthy but profound erosion of male dominance with hardly a male being yet aware of it . |
| 5 | Following the economic downturn of 1899 there had been a brief decline in strike action and contact had become more difficult to sustain . |
| 6 | By 1971 there had been a further reduction in this proportion , so that only 4.3 per cent of the population lived beyond what may be considered practical limits for commuting to metropolitan labour market centres . |
| 7 | In 1912 there had been no such preparation , merely a demand for solidarity which seemed unlikely to succeed . |
| 8 | Before 1977 there had been no formal ranking of the local authorities , and more than seventy had gained something from Urban Programme expenditure . |
| 9 | On Aug. 13 there had been a related wave of violent attacks by Maoist Shining Path ( Sendero Luminoso ) guerrillas and those of the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement ( MRTA ) . |
| 10 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 11 | Already by 1890 there had been a big improvement in the relations of the Papacy with governments conscious of Roman Catholicism 's contribution to social order in a time of revolutionary fears . |
| 12 | The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country . |
| 13 | Local elections held on May 27 were Poland 's first completely free multiparty elections since before the Second World War ( in the parliamentary elections of June 1989 there had been an agreed distribution of seats in the Sejm ( the lower house of the National Assembly ) among the former ruling parties and opposition or independent candidates — see pp. 36722-24 , and some opposition groups had been denied registration to compete as parties ) . |
| 14 | In other words between 1974 and 1988 there had been a 25 per cent reduction in the proportionate use of fines and a corresponding 25 per cent increase in the proportionate use of imprisonment . |
| 15 | Since the early 1980s there had been a steady erosion of the pro-nuclear power base within both the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Party . |
| 16 | He had contacted UNIT HQ and had confirmed that for a period in the 1970s and 1980s there had been a scientific advisor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart . |