Example sentences of "there had been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been a shower earlier in the day , and although the hot sun had dried the ground again , a sharper-than-usual smell of earth and growing things still lingered . |
| 2 | His sympathy , Lisa judged , was probably worth about as much as the dirt beneath his fingernails — that is , if there had been a speck of dirt present beneath those immaculately manicured items ! |
| 3 | I glanced involuntarily at Daffodil , but if there had been a flicker of her eyelids , I had missed it . |
| 4 | The respondents denied the allegations and contended that there had been a compromise whereby the petitioner had agreed to abandon those claims . |
| 5 | There had been a bulb on the staircase but this had been removed by a stranger , for whose actions the defendants were not responsible . |
| 6 | If there had been a moon that night , the clouds had been keeping it hidden . |
| 7 | There had been a moon when they 'd first arrived , but the clouds had come while they were chopping wood , and the rain while they 'd cooked dinner on the two little primus stoves . |
| 8 | She recollected fast and said there had been a development in the case during the evening . |
| 9 | In response IBM 's David Fitzgerald said that the internal report related to the early seventies when there had been a problem at the mine and that monitoring by both Galway County Council and An Foras Forbartha revealed no cause for concern . |
| 10 | Instead , she said , there had been a problem when the council employed a contractor to lay a new waterproof surface on the top deck , to which NCP contributed half the cost . |
| 11 | Instead , she said , there had been a problem when the council employed a contractor to lay a new waterproof surface on the top deck , to which NCP contributed half the cost . |
| 12 | On the current market situation Mr Peel noted that Old Masters continued to be the strongest area , although there had been a reduction in both size of sales and prices realised in some areas . |
| 13 | The Israeli human rights group Betselem issued a report on Dec. 8 which claimed that there had been a reduction in the number of casualties inflicted by the security forces in the occupied territories during 1990-91 . |
| 14 | If the loans were found to have been sold at a loss , the vendor would make a repayment , dependent on whether there had been a reduction in the bank 's tax liability or not . |
| 15 | In their letter , the solicitors did not disclose that there had been a release of all claims against Mr. Mahmoud . |
| 16 | And if there had been a degree of sympathy with the other defeated peoples — a doubtful claim , it has to be said , particularly with regard to the Poles — in this case ‘ the entire population took the view that England should at all costs be destroyed ’ . |
| 17 | There had been a budget deficit ever since 1914 , rising in the case of Russia to 81 per cent in 1917 . |
| 18 | There had been a pair using this barn , but , as so often happens these days , they deserted their nest . |
| 19 | My right hon. Friend has recently received the excellent report by the CBI 's manufacturing advisory group which showed that there had been a transformation in manufacturing performance during the 1980s . |
| 20 | There had been a weeknight meeting , held once a fortnight , at Ballintaggart . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. has set out the medical evidence available to us and , in my view , on that evidence it would not have surprised me if there had been a finding that at the relevant time on 5 July , suffering as she was from considerable and continuing pain in her chest , coughing up sputum , on various drugs designed to alleviate pain and to act as sedatives and during the evening suffering contractions in the first stage of labour , she was not in any event fit to make a decision . |
| 22 | For instance , there had been a trend , in the early 1970s , towards a more equal distribution of income between regions of the UK , but this was reversed under the Conservative government after 1979 , when the share of national income received by south-east England increased in connection with the location of wealthier groups . |
| 23 | There had been a shoot-out there once , there were bullet pocks in the walls , but it had been a very brief scene , and no one had bothered to return . |
| 24 | So there had been a cover up , of sorts anyway , and Berowne had known it . |
| 25 | Yes , it was probably as Hans said : there had been a row and Chuang 's wife had used Hans 's name to spite her husband . |
| 26 | Eliot felt that at Munich there had been a betrayal which seemed to demand an act of almost personal contrition . |
| 27 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |
| 28 | I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there . |
| 29 | There had been a storm the previous day and she could still see white horses in the bay from where she was sitting by a south-facing window . |
| 30 | Harry , as he was known , left the local school at thirteen to become a gardener like his father , but , from the time he was seven , there had been a golf-links at Grouville , and the local lads could earn pocket money as caddies . |