Example sentences of "[noun sg] there [vb past] [be] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted . |
| 2 | During the winter there had been near-continual snow and rain , then in late March there was a week of mad blustering winds , with racing cloud and fitful sun . |
| 3 | During the session there had been some debate over the selection of the ministers of finance and foreign affairs . |
| 4 | In my village there had been historic upheaval over such questions as whether it was right that hymns should be sung in the House of God . |
| 5 | Prior to the meeting there had been much speculation that Shamir would face a challenge at the meeting ; in the event even Sharon urged the party to unite behind Shamir . |
| 6 | For some years after the War there had been severe power cuts in winter , when demand reached its peak , because of shortages of both power station capacity and coal to burn in the plant that was available . |
| 7 | In that-place there had been intricate gardens , where water wheels turned musically and water lilies bloomed moon-white , and giant goldfish floated under them . |
| 8 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 9 | For more than a decade there had been detailed debate in the industry on the best form of securing greater coordination of distribution . |
| 10 | Earlier that day there had been dramatic scenes in Tirana 's central Skanderbeg Square as protesters toppled a huge statue of Enver Hoxha , Albania 's hardline Stalinist leader from 1944 until his death in 1985 . |
| 11 | That night there had been much wine at dinner and Flavia , though far from drunk , felt warmed , free . |
| 12 | Before the General Election there had been some talk of revising Crime Has No Boundaries , after Quintin Hogg had written to Heath calling for a ‘ refurbishment ’ of policies towards crime . |
| 13 | Of course there had been many Christmas parties after Maman went away , Aunt Tossie saw to that — but they were not memorable . |
| 14 | Leo had promised to ring me that evening in case there had been any news from the hospital ; and I told him my own news . |
| 15 | Ahead of the plenum there had been unprecedented calls from party branches for Gorbachev to step down . |
| 16 | In the North-East region , figures show that in the York area there had been 2,311 complaints , 33 rescues , 49 convictions , and 743 inspections ; in the Middlesbrough area , 1,364 complaints , 38 rescues , 563 inspections and 46 convictions ; and Newcastle 2,565 complaints , 40 rescues , 232 inspections and 78 convictions . |
| 17 | One week there had been fifty fridge doors outside his office , another week forty or fifty bicycle frames , although Robert had not so far caught sight of a single chain , tyre , wheel or handlebar . |
| 18 | Earlier in the month there had been official denials of allegations of a coup plan which had been reportedly made on Nov. 5 in Washington by Eduardo Molina Olivares , a member of the independent Truth Commission charged under the peace process with ascertaining responsibility for human rights abuses . |
| 19 | In the aftermath of the failed August coup in the Soviet Union there had been numerous demands and demonstrations in support of a ban on communist activities in Romania . |
| 20 | Despite the setbacks before the Uprising there had been growing recognition of PLO leadership in the territories . |
| 21 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 22 | Early in the project there had been considerable discussion among the development officers and their supervisor about the ending of the project , and how the care of on-going clients was to be continued after the withdrawal of the development officers . |
| 23 | There was no suggestion there had been any misrepresentation and no allegation of undue influence . |
| 24 | Ever since the days when Lavoisier and then Davy had worked on gunpowder there had been close connections between science and defence ; but the quantity of hard science in these papers is small , as it is also in F. A. Abel 's on substitutes for gunpowder ( 17 May 1872 ) where he spoke of nitro-glycerine and dynamite and gun-cotton , and even in John Tyndall 's of 4 June 1875 on Whitworth 's rifled guns . |
| 25 | By the end of the nineteenth century there had been considerable changes . |
| 26 | But by that time there had been two centuries of strife between Empire and Papacy and the Empire no longer had any special connection to the City of Rome . |
| 27 | ‘ The rallies were a spontaneous reaction to the troubles of the time and it was the first time there had been any movement like it in Northern Ireland . |
| 28 | The waning of enthusiasm for higher education had begun several years before , but this was the first time there had been fewer applicants than places offered . |
| 29 | For a time there had been grave apprehensions on that question of inheritance . |
| 30 | By this time there had been significant changes from the 1981–85 baseline in casualty distribution by age and road user type both locally and nationally . |