Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had [be] 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 | In the 1970s it was recognised that for decades there had been a growing imbalance between the consumer and the supplier or manufacturer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In recent years there had been a considerable increase in the revenue derived from tourism . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | Also , after the Jacobite Wars there had been a gradual but continuing improvement of the main roads in Britain . |
| 9 | But for both men it had been a spectacular and formative trip . |