Example sentences of "had been [art] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 2 | However , there had been no reports of such activity by the end of the month . |
| 3 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 4 | And there had been no damage to any arteries , the small amount of blood there was had come from minor cuts from the broken bottle . |
| 5 | There had been no hangings since 1988 in Jamaica , where there were some 250 other prisoners currently on death row . |
| 6 | There had been no difficulty about that . |
| 7 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 8 | Indeed a Galapagos dove was seen to perform a distraction display on an island where there had been no predators for countless years . |
| 9 | There had been no census since 1932 — nor was there ever to be a census again . |
| 10 | There had been no sense of impending crisis and few newspapers were seriously featuring the Falklands situation prior to the invasion . |
| 11 | Each sector was made responsible for its net revenue results ; previously , there had been no responsibility for overall profit and loss below the level of the chief executive . |
| 12 | On 18 July 1936 there had been no consensus on this question among those who joined the rebellion , beyond their unanimous desire to see the legitimate , democratically elected government removed from power . |
| 13 | Dauntless was instantly suspicious because there had been no sign of human habitation for days . |
| 14 | There had been no change of basic thinking , then , merely an adjustment of emphasis . |
| 15 | Only one social worker among 25 respondents said there had been no change in any dimension . |
| 16 | There had been no expression of undying love on the angular face she had come to love . |
| 17 | It had been a choice between bearing what he had or running back to Aber where he was privileged and protected , and for Harry that had been no choice at all . |
| 18 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 19 | No , there had been no trouble of that sort recently . |
| 20 | She had insisted on making these calls and she had won but there had been no satisfaction in that . |
| 21 | Only two patients were unable to retract their foreskins , and in both there had been no effort at early mobilisation . |
| 22 | In his childhood swimming at Cannes there had been no need for these ridiculous costumes . |
| 23 | For he could not have had to look far for whatever it might be , there had been no time for that . |
| 24 | It was first love — there had been no time for earlier romance because Nicandra was only eight on April 8th 1904 . |
| 25 | This court has been told that unfortunately there had been no argument about that particular matter in the course of the hearing of the first appeal . |
| 26 | Isobel began to feel that her life had been the wrong way round , that Africa had been no training at all , with its comparatively easy , impersonal requirement of Christian love , for these savagely difficult demands for daughterly love . |
| 27 | In fact , looking back on it there had been no hint of any real intimacy over the weekend , except during their lovemaking . |
| 28 | There had been no poverty at all , no necessity to move except the necessity of a woman who had been driven by some perverse whim to deny her former husband the right to see his daughter . |
| 29 | There had been no ceremony about any of it , for ceremony of any kind seemed to be something that they did not embrace . |
| 30 | Looking at Figure 3.24 , we can not add this information in COURSE-DETAIL because there had been no allocation of this ‘ module ’ occurrence to any ‘ course ’ . |