Example sentences of "there had be [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They had had no indication that anything had gone wrong , but there had been no firm news from Stockholm since before the flight . |
2 | Indeed , a similar interpretation was put forward by President de Klerk yesterday when he said that there had been no firm agreement on power-sharing and stressed the need for the resumption of multi-party talks . |
3 | Oddly enough , there had been no similar arrangements about the second or right angle quadrant . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Happily there had been no actual loss of life . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | In Tanzania in the early 1980s , 90 per cent of agricultural production in the resettled villages was still geared to subsistence consumption and there had been no long-term increase in the productivity of the farmers involved . |
8 | Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for . |
9 | There had been no paramilitary involvement and no one had been injured , he said . |
10 | There had been no new developments at all . |
11 | In the police service there was no simple end to the day as there had been no simple beginning . |
12 | There had been no major engagements in the field and the sieges that the king had undertaken had been abandoned . |
13 | There had been no major showdown for 20 years . |
14 | She had seen him at 5pm and there had been no major problems . |
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 | 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 . |
18 | A University committee charged to investigate the case of the young lecturer determined that there had been no administrative malpractice . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | the structural reform will create 3,650,000 losers ( i.e. their income will be lower than it would have been if the old system had continued and been up-rated in the normal way , and there had been no transitional protection ) compared with 3,190,000 gainers ( the Government claims that 5,000,070 gained ) while 1,680,000 people remain unaffected . |
21 | 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 . |
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 | However , Mrs. Buttigieg claimed that there had been no prior warnings to indicate that changes would take place over the weekend . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | Nevertheless , the Foxton project was mysteriously improbable even if there had been no internal combustion on the way . |
30 | 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 ) . |