Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] have been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1979 , however , the survey found that there had been a major shift in support for privatization and public opinion remained in favour of further privatization in 1983 , and probably reflected a positive response to the Thatcher policies . |
| 2 | The Court of Appeal found that there had been a breach but the phrasing of the judgment is nonetheless restrictive . |
| 3 | In Glynn v. Keele University the court found that there had been a breach of natural justice by the failure to give a hearing to a student who had been disciplined . |
| 4 | The justices found that there had been a breach of the peace before the police arrived , because the mother-in-law of the person who had asked the defendant to leave the swings had been ‘ alarmed ’ by the defendant 's conduct . |
| 5 | I finally got one job offer , but when I turned up to work I found that it had been a mistake . |
| 6 | The decline in smoking prevalence and tobacco sales is particularly significant because in March of this year , the Health Department reported that there had been a 14 percent rise in tobacco advertising during 1990 , apparently in anticipation of the advertising ban . |
| 7 | The organization reported that there had been a worldwide increase of nearly 17,000 AIDS cases in April , bringing the total to 254,078 . |
| 8 | Infolink , the independent credit information concern , yesterday reported that there had been an increase of 5½ p.c. in the number of consumer credit inquiries after the election . |
| 9 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 10 | All the reports agreed that there had been a gradual but marked increase in the intensity of activity on Krakatoa during the three days preceding the twenty-sixth . |
| 11 | The Charles Read spokesman agreed that there had been an increase in the number of cremations , but was unable to determine the reason for the trend . |
| 12 | Both managers agreed that it had been a classic Cup tie . |
| 13 | We all agreed that it had been a most leisurely and pleasant day out . |
| 14 | All agreed that it had been an exciting week , sometimes emotional and demanding but in the end enjoyable and full of the message of joy and peace . |
| 15 | At the ‘ 19th ’ all prizes were presented by Captain , Danny Sproull where everyone agreed that it had been an enjoyable outing . |
| 16 | The court ruled that there had been a " failure of justice " in the original trial in a lower court , when the accused were not allowed to include a full range of documentation in their defence submissions . |
| 17 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 18 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 19 | Only one company questioned , who insisted on complete anonymity , had taken on an ex-headhunter into a position it had been seeking to fill , and admitted that it had been a disastrous mistake . |
| 20 | In a speech delivered on March 6 , Tomur Dawamat , chair of the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous regional government , admitted that there had been a recent upsurge in Moslem separatist activity in the region . |
| 21 | The company admitted that there had been a delay in installing new screening equipment at the plant , which produces boiled sweets . |
| 22 | Yesterday police revealed that there had been a break-in on Thursday night at the bank which is on the corner of Skinnergate and Coniscliffe Road . |
| 23 | as if to confirm her pedestrian turn of mind , Miss Logan at this point revealed that it had been a matter of curiosity to her since childhood how the Ark had succeeded in resting upon the top of a mountain . |
| 24 | They believed that there had been a stage when there was no individual property ; that is , when no ownership continued beyond the time of use . |
| 25 | These indicated that of those questioned , 73.8% of secondary schools and 43. 1% of primary schools believed that there had been a decline in the quantity of choral singing provided in schools . |
| 26 | Troon , who had first presented the government with the findings of his investigation in September 1990 , also stated that he believed that there had been an attempt by Biwott and top-level security officials to hamper his investigations . |
| 27 | Bush hailed the verdict as a " victory against the drug lords " but Noriega 's chief attorney Frank Rubino , promising lengthy appeals , stated that it had been a political case ; the defence had effectively been prevented from treating it as such , and the judge had instructed the jury on April 3 not to consider any political aspects of the case . |
| 28 | At a meeting on April 15-16 Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos declared that there had been a " large majority " in favour of the draft in the key areas of ( i ) common foreign and security policy and ( ii ) increased powers for the European Parliament ( EP ) . |
| 29 | The DTI statement was made after the brewers had agreed to arbitration for their tenants — see page 11 — and some commentators claimed that there had been a trade-off . |
| 30 | He claimed that there had been a bona-fide revival of Gothic architecture during the reign of Queen Victoria , that there was with those who loved architecture and made it the subject of special study , |