Example sentences of "[ex0] [vb past] [adv] [be] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd just been a cancellation . ’ |
| 2 | There had previously been a plan for gaslit subway streets through which horse-drawn traffic could pass . |
| 3 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 4 | Since , however , the House in Reg. v. Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Reg. v. Lawrence [ 1972 ] A.C. 626 , this must ( I think ) have been because the Italian student , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the taxi driver taking anything in excess of the correct fare . |
| 5 | He did not find Lawrence and Morris easy to reconcile but since " the House in R v Morris considered that there had plainly been an appropriation in Lawrence 's case , there must have been because [ the victim ] , although he had permitted or allowed his money to be taken , had not in truth consented to the [ accused ] taking anything in excess of [ what was agreed ] . |
| 6 | There had thus been a level of skill enhancement for work in the classroom , and of skills training and transfer to working with colleagues within the group and others on the staff , and for achieving a mutually educative partnership between teacher and parent . |
| 7 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 8 | Miss Shand added that there had already been a payment of £50,000 by the board , which was not opposing the move for a second payment of the same amount . |
| 9 | During filming in Spain , there had already been a hint of what was to come when a journalist heard about this ‘ controversial ’ picture being made and managed to steal a script from the set , escaping by throwing beer glasses at cast and crew . |
| 10 | When , in 1989 , we started to explore the involvement of this mechanism in passive avoidance learning , there had already been a lot of speculation in the molecular neurobiology literature about whether it would be possible to show that c-fos and c-jun were specifically activated during memory formation ; but no-one had yet done the key , unequivocal experiment . |
| 11 | There had already been a kerfuffle over the pornographic ones ; they could n't be included in the facsimile edition and yet at the same time it could hardly be called a complete edition if they were n't there . |
| 12 | She wondered if during that last frenetic occasion when she had seen Sylvie there had already been a premonition of the end . |
| 13 | Before this speech he had carried Neville Chamberlain with him in such rejection , but a week later , when there had already been a period of some pressure against the pound in the foreign exchange markets , Chamberlain thought that events would ‘ beat down Baldwin 's native instinct against coalition ’ . ’ |
| 14 | According to one worker there had already been an occasion when she found Helen being ‘ fed , wiped and pushed round the house ’ . |
| 15 | There followed a joint Anglo-American effort to outbid the Soviets for Nasser 's favour ( there had already been an Egyptian–Czech arms deal ) by offering to help finance the ambitious Aswan high dam project . |
| 16 | The transfer of courses from London external to CNAA was by then complete , but there had also been a growth of CNAA part-time law degree courses — at Ealing , Leicester , Liverpool , Manchester , Newcastle and Wolverhampton — with others in the pipeline . |
| 17 | In recent years , fraud cases involving professionals had received a lot of publicity in Scotland , but there had also been a surge in mortgage and cheque frauds , primarily at the expense of banks . |
| 18 | In one , Moss Green , there had also been an increase in the percentage of girls opting for chemistry , physics and technical crafts . |
| 19 | The yew had been grown by John Combes in the early 1700s when this house was built , and there had been an altercation about it ; there had also been an altercation about the building . |
| 20 | Yes , she said , there had just been a birth in the house , but the family had gone to stay with cousins in Haryana ; there was now no one at home . |
| 21 | Then her friend told her that there had just been an earthquake , so the woman concluded that it must have been that good . |
| 22 | There had even been a phone call the previous day from one of the new Moving Picture companies asking if ‘ Mary O'Neil ’ would like to come out to California ? |
| 23 | There had even been a cassette of fairly slow black-and-white film . |
| 24 | Once there had even been a party of tourists , disturbing the peace with their groans and giggles as they struggled up the steep path from their coach . |
| 25 | She could remember his amazement on learning what she did to earn her living ; there had even been a hint of surprise that she actually needed to . |
| 26 | If that were the only such delay of which I knew , I would accept that there had simply been an oversight , but I am afraid that , in the circumstances , I can not accept that . |
| 27 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 28 | But there had long been a feeling that Hawaii , birthplace of surfing and home of the biggest waves , should have that honour by right . |
| 29 | There had obviously been a couple of heated arguments , probably to do with the artistic … you know , you get bored with something that you 've done before and you 're working on a new project , and I think he thought that having to wear a suit as opposed to his choice of stage gear can be very nerve-racking . |
| 30 | From nil in 1989 , there had now been a total of 8368 up to mid-July 1991 . |