Example sentences of "[conj] there had [been] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One knew exactly where there had been difficulties and compromises behind the scenes . |
| 2 | Her husband , up to the time of his death , had been a miner although there had been occasions when he had made scarcely any wage — but still he had never sent his children to the mine . |
| 3 | I saw no trouble at the match , but I heard on TV afterwards that there had been fights in Waverly station before and after the match |
| 4 | Responding to the complaints , Mandela , who had previously acknowledged that there had been abuses , said that all the allegations would be thoroughly investigated . |
| 5 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 6 | A US official said troops opened fire several times , but he did not confirm that there had been casualties . |
| 7 | Her new owner suspected that there had been difficulties , so decided to start Jasmine 's training right from the beginning again . |
| 8 | The man in charge of the fund , Brigadier Jimmy Chater , admitted that there had been problems with finding and helping Royal Warwickshire POWs , and agreed that the income from the fund exceeded the benefits paid out . |
| 9 | A British Rail spokesperson in York confirmed that there had been problems with the Settle and Carlisle . |
| 10 | A South African foreign affairs spokesman said on Jan. 5 that there had been contacts with Soviet representatives on a regular basis , " for example on the Namibian issue " , and " should we wish to pursue talks we would do so directly " , with no need for Hungarian or any other mediation . |
| 11 | A few admitted that there had been excesses . |
| 12 | There were accusations of plagiarism , of cheating , of fabricating data ; there was name-calling in public as Fleischmann and Pons were called ‘ incompetent ’ and ‘ deluded ’ ; there were deep politics , paranoia and , by the end of the year , threats of writs being issued against the editor of a leading scientific journal and against one scientist whose experiments suggested that there had been errors in Pons ' laboratory . |
| 13 | I could honestly tell him that there had been improvements . |
| 14 | Since each stratum was accompanied by its fossils , it appeared that there had been animals upon the Earth for millions of years . |
| 15 | But he said Yates denied taking steroids and that there had been irregularities in the testing procedures . |
| 16 | Ballot results in 32 out of 120 constituencies were annulled after the first round of voting in legislative elections on Sept. 16 ; the second round , scheduled for Sept. 23 , was suspended after the government acknowledged that there had been irregularities at a number of voting centres . |
| 17 | Although Commonwealth observers reported that voting had been free and fair , Mancham said that the poll had been rigged against the Democratic Party , claiming that there had been an " abundant use of state apparatus " in the SPPF campaign and that there had been irregularities in the establishment of the electoral lists , allowing some people to vote more than once . |
| 18 | While it conceded that there had been arrests , the government rejected the other allegations as " groundless " . |
| 19 | If word reached Meredith Putt that there had been witnesses to his crime Seb would be in great danger . |
| 20 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 21 | For example , given the great emphasis on the family and monogamy in Victorian England they were delighted when they found in the work of anthropologists a statement that there had been societies with sexual freedom and no notion of the family . |
| 22 | In a broadcast on the same day Foreign Affairs Minister Pascoal Mocumbi denied that there had been violations , and accused the MNR of contradicting itself . |
| 23 | People said it was smoothed over , and that there had been adjustments of personnel in the agriculture department . |
| 24 | A report on Russian radio of April 26 said that there had been clashes in Shusha and Agdam between Azerbaijani government troops and armed units of the Azerbaijani Popular Front . |
| 25 | Once there had been kingcups , but none had been seen now for at least ten years . |
| 26 | Eggs had not been one of the things left by her unknown benefactor and there had been complaints about the absence of toast soldiers . |
| 27 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |
| 28 | Substantial parts of the urban population were better off in material terms and there had been changes in attitudes . |
| 29 | And there had been seals , too , out on two offshore outcrops of stone , basking in the heat , barking sometimes at them . |
| 30 | Fisons had been targeted by environmentalists for its peat-cutting work on sites of special scientific interest ( SSSIs ) , and there had been signs recently that protests were becoming more militant . |