Example sentences of "had been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bottles were being returned to retail outlets by members of the public and there had been no reports of problems , she said . |
| 2 | A Foreign Office spokesman said there had been no deals with terrorists . |
| 3 | A Foreign Office spokesman said there had been no deals with terrorists . |
| 4 | According to Richardson , there had been no discussion of tactics beforehand . |
| 5 | She also told me that there had been no evidence of evictions , but , however hon. Members interpret it , the evidence given to the Select Committee by Mr. Harris of the Association of Metropolitan Authorities was clear . |
| 6 | Mr Sawyer , chairman of the party 's home policy committee which co-ordinated the work of the seven policy review groups , insisted there had been no sacrifice of principles . |
| 7 | For there had been no lack of men whom she had wished she could fall in love with , good men who would undoubtedly have made her happy . |
| 8 | Said her husband had been a member for years . ’ |
| 9 | Once , there had been a superabundance of leaves and spores close to the ground . |
| 10 | There had been a shortfall in applicants and in funds : |
| 11 | It was not and never had been a question of wages . |
| 12 | Since the start of the political reform process in Bulgaria in November 1989 there had been a rash of strikes in many sectors of the economy against low pay , poor working conditions and unpopular or incompetent management . |
| 13 | There had been a plethora of events which had propelled children 's reporters and the hearing system into the public arena . |
| 14 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 15 | Their contents had usually turned out to be machine parts but there had been a couple of times when he had found something a little more palatable — once a case of French Burgundy , on another occasion a case of German hock . |
| 16 | While they had been talking , there had been a couple of moments when he had n't looked in the least civilised ! |
| 17 | By 1736 the population of the town of Sheffield stood at 10,121 , which was about three and a half times higher than it had been a couple of generations earlier in 1672 . |
| 18 | No cosy warm Italian family life for him , he told Anna , school , university , crammers , lodgings , his happiest time had been a couple of years recovering from pneumonia with an uncle , the British padre , on the Ligurian coast . |
| 19 | It had been a couple of days before it dawned on him : they were the full-size versions of the houses and station buildings he and his father had made up for their never-quite-finished model railway layout . |
| 20 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |
| 21 | Miss Barber said the inquest had been a couple of days before . |
| 22 | We had problems that last year with bits of this assignment until the mailing went out and then , you know , the video cassette , the specimen cassette was available but perhaps if it had been a couple of weeks earlier it would have been better . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State did not tell us that there had been a change in circumstances since the Government rejected the Prior report . |
| 24 | Four expert witnesses had argued there had been a range of approaches open to the pilot , Sheriff Risk said . |
| 25 | However , there had been a fall in profits necessitating a cost-cutting exercise . |
| 26 | Some claimed that the operation had been a reprisal for losses suffered two days earlier by the army at the hands of guerrillas of the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy ( FRUD ) , as fighting continued around the government-held towns of Tadjoura and Obock ; a five-day ceasefire , announced by the FRUD on Dec. 15 to allow for the deployment of French troops [ see p. 38565 ] , had collapsed the following day . |
| 27 | The cap and bonnet had been a feature of grave-clothes since the 1630s , the under-shirt having been introduced at the same time . |
| 28 | In fact , there had been a tendency for countships ( and benefices ) to become hereditary long before the mid-ninth century : it was inherent in a social organisation where power and property in general were inherited . |
| 29 | This he threw with a flicking movement on to a pile of scrap iron before making his way towards them , kicking out of his path and on to yet another pile the remnants of what had been a pair of trousers . |
| 30 | There was initial optimism that there had been a breakthrough in relations between Syria and Israel , but by Aug. 27 , Palestinian negotiators were expressing disappointment at the detailed autonomy proposals presented by the new Labour government . |