Example sentences of "[conj] [ex0] had been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I arrived back I found that there had been very little press coverage and quite a lot of disbelief . |
| 2 | I said that there had been substantially more submissions than the number he gave . |
| 3 | He was consumed by indignation that there had been so many attempts to swindle his country in its attempts to gain arms to protect itself from the aggression of Iraq . |
| 4 | The Central Committee 's Theses , adopted shortly before the 19th Party Conference in 1988 , contained the first official criticism of Soviet foreign policy in the Brezhnev and Gromyko years , suggesting that there had been too much ‘ dogmatism ’ and ‘ subjectivism ’ at this time and that Soviet policy had lagged behind the important changes that were taking place in world affairs . |
| 5 | Lord Weir added that there had been too many incidents of vandalism to the danger of people on the railways . |
| 6 | ‘ Our last two albums for them , ‘ Peace In Our Time ’ and ‘ No Place Like Home ’ , were stodgy affairs , and there had been so many hassles . |
| 7 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 8 | If there had been very few cases , the crime would not have had much importance . |
| 9 | The other morning , two tv channels were reduced to discussion of whether there had been too much war coverage . |