Example sentences of "there had been a certain " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Charles obtained his post at Suffolk , there had been a certain amount of pressure from both sets of parents for them to get married . |
| 2 | Eden would ring up , sometimes as often as a dozen times a day , to ask why there had been a certain speech made in the provinces by a member of the opposition , why an answer had n't been given , and that sort of thing . |
| 3 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 4 | Even at the height of the strike movement of the 1890s there had been a certain amount of friction between workers and intelligentsia . |
| 5 | But there had been a certain amount of argument with the police and one National Socialist was arrested for obstructing the footway . |
| 6 | There had been a certain amount of bustle about it , but you could hardly have a journey — any journey — without a bit of bustle . |
| 7 | ‘ My mother felt that Suzie would be more inclined to listen to me because there had been a certain amount of friction between the two of them recently . ’ |