Example sentences of "there had been [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the late seventeenth century there had been complaints of increasing wickedness , crime and disorder . |
| 2 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 3 | Sheikh Saad , the crown prince and prime minister , admitted that there had been abuse of human rights in the early days of the country 's liberation but implied that , with the regime back in control , all was well . |
| 4 | There had been difficulties with local planning officials . |
| 5 | He said there had been difficulties in some committee meetings in trying to achieve a quorum and said payments should be made as an award for members who attended . |
| 6 | The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book , Arbeau , Frescobaldi , Froberger — in those years people suddenly realized that there had been music before 1700 . ’ |
| 7 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 8 | Parish council chairman Peter Foster said there had been reports of one of two buses using the road following a ban on school buses , imposed by the county council after campaigning by residents . |
| 9 | As recently as 1985 , there had been signs of greater even-handedness on the part of the RUC , reflected in more frequent prosecutions of Protestants for ‘ insurgency offences ’ . |
| 10 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 11 | On the supply side , there had been underinvestment in many areas of primary production for some years . |
| 12 | According to unofficial reports based on alleged eye-witness accounts , shortly before the passage of the reforms there had been demonstrations in several Albanian towns and an unprecedented strike [ for reports of protests in December 1989 and early January 1990 see pp. 37195-96 ] . |
| 13 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 14 | After the talks , Hanan Ashrawi , the Palestinian spokeswoman , said there had been discussion of undisclosed new proposals , but the Palestinians could not make any final decisions without further consultations among themselves and with the Palestine Liberation Organisation in Tunis . |
| 15 | In 1279 the purely clerical assemblies of both provinces made a grant to the king towards the cost of the Welsh wars , but again only after there had been discussion in diocesan assemblies . |
| 16 | It was apparent that there had been money at all periods except the most modem , and taste at some . |
| 17 | There had been suggestions in early 1991 — see p. 37992 — that Gqozo was moving towards relinquishing Ciskei 's claim to sovereignty . |
| 18 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 19 | On the previous day there had been rallies in many parts of the Russian Federation in support of Yeltsin ( who was under threat of a no confidence vote in the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies as a result of an attack on Gorbachev in February — see p. 38013 ) , and in opposition to Gorbachev and the Union Treaty . |
| 20 | Before the end of 1891 there had been strikes against free labour at Aberdeen , Plymouth , Liverpool , Shields , Newcastle , Leith , Hull , Glasgow , Hartlepool , Middlesbrough and Swansea , all of which resulted in a weakening of the union . |
| 21 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |
| 22 | In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another . |
| 23 | In none of those cases could it be said that , if one entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer into another . |
| 24 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 25 | There had been cows in that yard outside and horses stabled around . |
| 26 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 27 | Ever since the Second World War , there had been pressure in some circles for a move away from the secular aspects of the state created between the wars by Ataturk . |
| 28 | There had been allegations of Iranian involvement in the murder in Peshawar on Oct. 3 of Lt.-Gen. |
| 29 | In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields . |
| 30 | There had been nights like this years ago , when they were younger , before there was a house and a television set , before they were married . |