Example sentences of "there had [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 2 | All right , there had been two of them involved and it was unfair , but he would be feeling tricked … and trapped . |
| 3 | There had been eight of them , four girls and four boys , and only ten years between first and last . |
| 4 | By this time , there had been six Beyond Our Kens , but Horne and his producer thought another comic input was necessary . |
| 5 | He assumed the visit must be one of Isobel 's whims , and there had been many of those . |
| 6 | Frank confirmed that as a boy visiting relatives in the region there had been many of the old ships still about , so Brian and I decided we 'd go there , then sail down the US coast to the Caribbean , through the Panama Canal and head west to the Revillagigedo Islands which Brian had decided were his . |
| 7 | Of the 9,123 adjudications in 1868 there had been 6,489 in which no dividend had been realized . |
| 8 | There had been four in the cruiser . |
| 9 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 10 | The move was intended to increase the number of successful prosecutions , of which there had been 14 since 1980 , for neo-Nazi activities . |
| 11 | There had been some among their ‘ class opponents ’ , Ligachev went on , who had been praising perestroika , hoping it represented a departure from socialism in favour of a market economy , ideological pluralism and Western-style democracy . |
| 12 | There had been shore-foam on the beach yesterday . |
| 13 | This was because owing to wartime censorship there had been little in the newspapers about industrial disputes . |
| 14 | A group collecting around the Birmingham solicitor William Bedford invoked the old legal process of ‘ appeal of murder ’ , generally regarded as obsolete ( though there had been several in the eighteenth century ) . |
| 15 | Ralph Preece , administrative receiver from Touche Ross , said there had been 145 over Darlington-based Stepfind Ltd , which owns four nursing homes in the region . |