Example sentences of "had [been] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since the spring of 1918 , when pacifist hopes that a ‘ peace between equals ’ could indeed turn the First World War into a ‘ war to end war ’ had been finally dashed , there had been no convincing reason to believe that a second global bloodletting could be avoided . |
| 2 | Throughout the inter-war period there had been no effective plan , merely Unwin 's work and sporadic activity in the preparation of statutory planning schemes by the London boroughs . |
| 3 | He had boxed her into a corner there had been no other way out of . |
| 4 | There had been no other woman in his life for quite a time . |
| 5 | Happily there had been no actual loss of life . |
| 6 | The suggestion caused embarrassment , as , according to the Independent of April 24 , there had been no prior consultation and Walesa was unable to expand on it . |
| 7 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 8 | It was a large tiled room , brightly lit and with the dry , rich smell of animal feed — it made Reynolds realise that there had been no noticeable odour in the corridor at all . |
| 9 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 10 | A University committee charged to investigate the case of the young lecturer determined that there had been no administrative malpractice . |
| 11 | While it 's always good to know the odd tuba player ( and let's face it , most of them are ) , Chase unfortunately was a fanatic , believing that there had been no good jazz since the King Oliver band . |
| 12 | It argued that Africa had hardly benefited from Bank programmes : though exports had improved , there had been no perceptible impact on growth or inflation , and investment had suffered . |
| 13 | There had been no civil war , no revolution , no dismemberment of French territories . |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal and quashing the order , that the judge had failed to specify the fees to be disallowed and had adopted an inappropriate procedure ; and that , in any event , there had been no unreasonable act or omission capable of founding an order under section 19A of the Act ( post , pp. 665G — 666B , G ) . |
| 15 | Excessive secrecy , unwillingness to consult with senior politicians , reluctance to uncover the hands of cards on the table of missions and operations , and for all that covertness there had been no great efficiency and success . |
| 16 | This , the biggest single enclave in Sussex , not only demonstrates the continued dependence of the prototype works at Newbridge on immigrant workmen , but also implies that there had been no great pool of indigenous labour to draw on in the first place . |
| 17 | There had been no major showdown for 20 years . |
| 18 | There had been no paramilitary involvement and no one had been injured , he said . |
| 19 | Up till then , there had been no official suggestion of the plane 's being recalled , and I had been inclined to believe that Leslie had landed in France , and had subsequently disappeared . |
| 20 | but there had been no practical progression to the redevelopment of commercial areas ; there was only a handful of local authorities which seemed capable of making design and environmental advances in planning practice . |
| 21 | Chiltern District Council v. Keane [ 1985 ] 1 W.L.R. 619 was an appeal from the High Court in which it was held that ( 1 ) the notice of motion to commit lacked sufficient particularity to enable the alleged contemnor to meet the charge , ( 2 ) there had been no personal service of notice of an adjourned hearing date and ( 3 ) the committal order failed to give particulars of the facts found to constitute the contempt . |
| 22 | There had been no real objective , except a vague idea that if conditions were good Hvannadalshnúkur might as well be climbed . |
| 23 | Margaret had returned to work by this time , but there had been no real change in her other problems . |
| 24 | Frank Almond , Chief Executive of Intermediate Technology , said that Major had " missed the mark in a quite spectacular manner " , and that there had been no apparent attempt to look at what was either affordable or appropriate . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way . |
| 26 | It had been no simple journey . |
| 27 | In the police service there was no simple end to the day as there had been no simple beginning . |
| 28 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 29 | Her husband did n't suffer from herpes , there had been no increase in the frequency of sexual intercourse , and there had been no inter-current infection to explain the setback . |
| 30 | If there had been no political factor in the equation , it is unlikely that Profumo would have been ruined in the way he was and tortured for years by a newspaper interest which has survived until the present day . |