Example sentences of "there had been [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight ( 32 per cent ) stated there had been closer consultation with young people in care , five ( 20 per cent ) with foster-parents , four with residential workers , four with natural parents , and three with unspecified others . |
| 2 | At our last Directorate it was noted that there had been further difficulties with unauthorised visitors and it was agreed that there was a need for additional security between the entrance foyer and offices . |
| 3 | By 1968 some 73 per cent of beer production was in the hands of seven major national firms , while there had been further progress towards the consolidation of a number of medium-sized regional breweries , largely at the expense of the smaller local firms . |
| 4 | There had been earlier studies of women writers , notably Myra Reynolds 's The Learned Lady in England 1650–1760 ( 1920 ) , and occasional studies of individual writers , but only in the past twenty years have the conditions obtained for a comprehensive reexamination of these writers . |
| 5 | There had been earlier instances of co-ordination or control by the dramatist or by the composer . |
| 6 | It was in 1984 that the war at sea began to hit the headlines , although there had been earlier incidents involving attacks on shipping . |
| 7 | There had been earlier criticism in the USA that Japan had failed to send either combat or medical personnel to the Gulf , and US treasury officials had publicly accused Japan of being very slow in sending its promised financial aid . |
| 8 | There had been earlier moves towards international integration , but the 1950s saw a new impetus and with it a new school of thought emerging to claim that the sovereignty of the state was being eroded . |