Example sentences of "had [be] [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the War , many large consumers had generated their own electricity ( 45 per cent of industrial electricity came from self-generation in 1938 ) , and some of the larger firms , such as ICI and Ford , had been pioneers in generation technology . |
| 2 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 3 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 4 | There had been changes in technology , in the workforce and in the class system . |
| 5 | There had been fears in Lithuania that Poland might claim part of its territory , including Vilnius . |
| 6 | There had been women in Pesth , some of them attractive even by Imperial standards , but they had been the wives or concubines of Burun 's officers , or else they had belonged to the Altun . |
| 7 | Then I heard Dan Rather saying there had been explosions in Israel . |
| 8 | After the funeral , when they were eating the lunch he had arranged at the Black Lion in Wellingham High Street , Sara was approached by Mr. Crowther , Aunt Alicia 's solicitor and senior partner in Crowther , Boon and Crowther , who had been solicitors in Wellingham for three generations . |
| 9 | There had been reports in October of intensified repression in Bhutan of ethnic Nepalese activists [ see p. 38534 ] . |
| 10 | Knill said that there had been progress in collaboration with HEIs over responsive mode funding and with NERC 's institutes . |
| 11 | Karl Barth had been pastor in Safenwil since 1911 . |
| 12 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 13 | Earlier , there had been disturbances in Snowdrop Street in the Kirkdale area of Liverpool where it is understood one of the youths being questioned was arrested . |
| 14 | This was very clear in one area where there had been redundancies in coal mining . |
| 15 | Yes , they had been neighbours in Shrewsbury , but of course they had only seen each other during the school holidays , and of course they had n't made friends over some grotty little terrace-house garden fence ; he 'd first noticed her from the tree house in his parents ' garden while she was learning to ride her new pony in her parents ' ten acres of mature woodland and well-kept pasture . |
| 16 | A report on Russian radio of April 26 said that there had been clashes in Shusha and Agdam between Azerbaijani government troops and armed units of the Azerbaijani Popular Front . |
| 17 | She remembered there had been fire in starbursts never seen before , and explosions of noise . |
| 18 | For Rosebery , for Milner , even for Lloyd George , there had been temptation in coalition ever since the Boer War , but such dreams had never come into the political daylight . |
| 19 | His family had been landowners in Wales and Shropshire . |