Example sentences of "had been [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lunt later conceded that this was because there had been no comparative studies , and urged scientific tests to establish the levels of natural toxins in organic products and their effects on humans . |
| 2 | Mrs Mitchell said there had been no other complaints of re-occurring trouble on Shakespeare Road . |
| 3 | However , Mrs. Buttigieg claimed that there had been no prior warnings to indicate that changes would take place over the weekend . |
| 4 | Charges that there had been no good times in England since William came in , or that William had ruined the nation , were fairly common . |
| 5 | There had been no new developments at all . |
| 6 | The shares fell 3p to 276p yesterday , in line with the market , and Ian Wild , of brokers Barclays de Zoete Wedd , said there had been no great surprises in the figures . |
| 7 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
| 8 | There had been no major engagements in the field and the sieges that the king had undertaken had been abandoned . |
| 9 | Oddly enough , there had been no similar arrangements about the second or right angle quadrant . |
| 10 | But a London-based spokeswoman for NCP said there had been no structural faults with the car park . |
| 11 | But a London-based spokeswoman for NCP said there had been no structural faults with the car park . |
| 12 | There had been no more dreams . |
| 13 | There had been no more calls since the informant had rung with the news of the cocaine shipment . |
| 14 | But there had been no more children , and now Cousin Charlie would inherit . |
| 15 | But there had been no statutory provisions regarding it . |
| 16 | I repeated that I saw ‘ no case for a further round of Beeching cuts ’ and that there had been no secret talks or plans . |
| 17 | Yesterday , as the group of cockle pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
| 18 | Yesterday , as the group of pickers went about their business , police said there had been no further incidents . |
| 19 | There had been no pumped handshakes , no kissed cheeks , no back slapping , so something was wrong . |
| 20 | Previously , there had been no trained nurses in poor-law institutions , nursing being done by the paupers themselves , and there was widespread sickness among workhouse inmates . |
| 21 | A health spokesman stressed there had been no reported deaths — and said parents should continue having their children vaccinated . |
| 22 | There had been no formal meetings and accounts had not been issued to members . |
| 23 | There had been no unexplained nights away and no displays of petulance , and when he set off through the gates of his house he drove slowly and with care . |
| 24 | Brig Cumming , who is operating from a stark small office in the barracks with just a trestle table and canvas chair , said there had been no direct links between the British commanders and the Serbs . |
| 25 | And if there had been no synthetic drugs to control the resistant strains , would the decline of streptomycin have been taken to prove that antibiotics were a waste of time because organisms adapted to them too easily ? |
| 26 | Churchill had been a hundred miles from London , weekending in the country . |
| 27 | What , then , of life and death in a typical Victorian family , compared with the way things had been a hundred years previously ? |
| 28 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 29 | Coffin wondered if the inhabitants of Drake Towers , with their BMWs and Porsches , knew that the old Francis Drake Street had been a regular thieves ' kitchen . |
| 30 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |