Example sentences of "[conj] there had [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The nose had been smashed , the throat was terribly bruised , and there had been attempts to both burn and boil the remains . |
| 32 | There were ‘ negative phenomena and deformations ’ in relations between the nationalities , as there were in other spheres of Soviet life ; and there had been incidents elsewhere not very different from those in the Kazakh capital . |
| 33 | Some bookmakers have not been entirely happy with their new placing in the Down Royal set-up and there had been grumblings about taking the matter to a higher authority . |
| 34 | Mia 's lawyer said : ‘ If there had been threats he 'd call the cops . ’ |
| 35 | Even if there had been tons of it , a fourth or fifth share could n't have amounted to five hundred pounds . |
| 36 | He claims he would not have started if there had been warnings . |
| 37 | Unless there had been others , and she had n't remembered . |
| 38 | Fulham must find a new ground by the end of next season but there had been indications that they might be prepared to quit their Thames riverside site at the end of this season . |
| 39 | This polarisation of attitudes was perhaps unfortunate since there had been signs of a certain willingness on the part of the Department to reconsider the validity of their ideas and to give some weight to the social issues behind the public reaction to the housing policy . |
| 40 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 41 | The main impetus for change came from Gorbachev 's close colleague , Alexander Yakovlev , who was the first Politburo member to ask publicly whether there had been alternatives to the command-administrative system . |
| 42 | As long as there had been secrets , she had felt close to him but now , with the opening of these two slim packages , the last of those secrets would be gone . |
| 43 | Attacks on adult women were featured in a sustained manner in the search stage in national newspapers only when there had been attacks on several women apparently by the same offender — for instance , a special rape squad was set up when a ‘ sex beast ’ was believed to be responsible for a series of attacks on at least twenty-three women . |