Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [ex0] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suffolk was the only link and he could remember quite distinctly , on first going to Nunes , how there had been some dispute as to whether it was in Suffolk or Essex . |
| 2 | It described how there had been a fifty percent increase in food poisoning cases in district year and then it went on to say that it , it was largely , it was thought that that increase was largely because of the increased publicity which the council had been given hygiene training , and saying how many people had been trained , and how the Health Committee was being asked to provide more resources so there could more courses even , even more courses in the following year . |
| 3 | Only once , in 1966 when there had been a lot of discussion on the ethics of capital punishment , did a Gallup poll find that American support for death as the punishment for murder had fallen below 50% . |
| 4 | When Gabriel and she had been a couple they had run into her one day when there had been a freak storm . |
| 5 | And in times when there had been very little money , it had kept them going , Jasper and her , for months . |
| 6 | In fact , even in this area where the textile trade was important , such a high level of unemployment would have been surprising , for cloth exports in the mid 1520s were substantially higher than earlier in the decade , when there had been a marked recession . |
| 7 | This Election provides a stark contrast with the one of 1690 , when there had been a great deal of controversial pamphleteering , and where a significant number of contests had been fought over the issues of the Church and the security of the Protestant Succession . |
| 8 | The inflammation was where there had been only skin and bone before . |
| 9 | This was very clear in one area where there had been redundancies in coal mining . |
| 10 | From that date , certain tram and trolleybus depôts and bus garages were renamed , in cases where there had been one of each bearing the same name . |
| 11 | It did not appear to be a case where there had been collusion between the employer and the driver to their mutual advantage . |
| 12 | There was the field where there had been potatoes . |
| 13 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 14 | Why , in England , where there had been no invasion , did we drink watery coffee , eat cakes made with margarine , in dirty cafés decorated with ivy and bamboo wallpaper ? |
| 15 | In consequence , the courts came to limit the cases in which recovery of an ultra vires impost was allowed to cases where there had been an extraction colore officii . |
| 16 | This had the advantage that ‘ lower ’ races could be dismissed as earlier steps in the advance that had survived into the present in parts of the world where there had been less stimulus for mental development . |
| 17 | When I search a farmland site I always keep careful records , and looking back to my notes I started to search the areas where there had been the greatest concentration of finds . |
| 18 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
| 19 | Thus it has been held that there was a course of dealing where the parties contracted three or four times per month for three years ( Kendall v Lillico ) and where there had been 81 transactions over a period of six years ( SIAT di del Ferro v Tradax Overseas SA [ 1978 ] 2 Lloyd 's Rep 470 ) , but not where there had been only three or four contracts over a five-year period ( Hollier v Rambler Motors ( AMC ) Ltd [ 1972 ] 2 QB 71 ; in addition the alleged course of dealing was not consistent ) . |
| 20 | Other blackspots included Colburn Lane , with heavy rush hour traffic ; Tunstall Lane in Colburn ; a blind spot and a dangerous junction beside the racecourse at Catterick Bridge ; and a hazardous crossroads at Gatherley , where there had been a number of accidents . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It is important to be clear then about our reasons for feeling that we had to explain why women have come so far rather than explaining why there had been so few gains . |
| 23 | Whenever I went home , my mum and dad had asked me what was being done for John and why there had been no news of him . |
| 24 | The hon. Member for Sedgefield raised an important point about why there had been no prosecutions following Piper Alpha . |
| 25 | The problem was that we did n't know why there had been such a dramatic improvement . |