Example sentences of "had been [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seb assured the older man there had been no problems during the night , but added , ‘ I am worried about the stock , especially the sheep in the pen behind the barn . ’ |
| 2 | There had been no problems at home . |
| 3 | The headmaster said that there had been no problems until the introduction of television . |
| 4 | It is worth posing additional questions to promote discussion some that have been found to be useful are : If there had been no problem with the purchase of the bacon-curing business what would you have done with the £500 paid to the accountant ? |
| 5 | There had been no problem in having Eve brought up as a Catholic , since the Westwards had never wanted to know about her at all , and did n't care what faith she was raised in just as long as they never had to hear her name . |
| 6 | There had been no problem in finding a matching replacement for the cut piece ; a hardware shop in Inverness had supplied it , and it had taken only a few minutes to fit . |
| 7 | The historical reasons underlying the emergence of these principles , as explained by Dixon J. in Yerkey v. Jones , 63 C.L.R. 649 , may explain why cases , in which there had been no disposition of property by the surety wife but merely the acceptance by her of a contractual obligation to pay her husband 's debts , did not attract the same approach as the cases in which security over property had been given . |
| 8 | Zobel said that there had been no approaches from Japanese companies wanting to work in the OMI . |
| 9 | However , there had been no reports of such activity by the end of the month . |
| 10 | Bottles were being returned to retail outlets by members of the public and there had been no reports of problems , she said . |
| 11 | There had been no reports of wildlife or fish being affected , said the spokesman . |
| 12 | But there had been no reference to them in the detailed report of Surrendered Ex-Enemy Personnel sent up by 5 Corps to Eighth Army two days earlier , on 15 May [ KP 112 ] . |
| 13 | Even his marriage to Primaflora in some way had charmed them although , of course , there had been no opportunity for her to visit either Episkopi or Kouklia . |
| 14 | Something unforeseen and urgent had happened , since Sean had obviously known of it yesterday afternoon , and there had been no opportunity for him to inform her . |
| 15 | And from that moment to this there had been no opportunity for any kind of personal discussion . |
| 16 | He 'd even tried his hand at tapping boots , they were done with more enthusiasm than skill , but so far there had been no complaints from the customers . |
| 17 | A spokesman pointed out the jet had been in use for five years and there had been no complaints until recently . |
| 18 | It was now over forty hours since the money had been handed over , but there had been no word of Ruggiero Miletti 's release . |
| 19 | There had been no word from Lanai . |
| 20 | There had been no word from Eve for a week , which was not a good sign . |
| 21 | The law would be taking its stately course and perhaps one day she would have to sign documents , but as yet there had been no word from France — even Marguerite had not written — and Jenna felt very much alone . |
| 22 | There had been no word from Steve or Maria Lisa and though there was no time element concerned with this contract she was still a little worried that nothing had been accomplished with the airlines and tourist board in Palma . |
| 23 | Since her father 's death she had written regularly to her grandfather , but there had been no word in reply from Hester . |
| 24 | Four years ago there had been no payment on account scheme . |
| 25 | All the land and other assets had not been valued and there had been no consideration of a clawback provision should the company profit from subsequent disposals . |
| 26 | The Israeli authorities say that ‘ Abd al-Ra'uf Ghabin 's allegations of torture and ill-treatment were investigated and that ‘ there had been no deviation from the accepted procedures for interrogations ’ . |
| 27 | On the Lantonment and river sides of the banqueting hall there had been no firing of chain shot to clear the jungle : this was partly to save powder , partly because the banqueting hall was , anyway , higher than the surrounding land and thus more difficult to surprise ; there were also natural clearings to be seen here and there where the ground was too stony for a thick growth . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | There had been no hangings since 1988 in Jamaica , where there were some 250 other prisoners currently on death row . |
| 30 | At his trial , the judge rejected his submission that there was no case to answer in that the goods had been sold under a contract between the customer and the shop and that there had been no appropriation of property belonging to another . |