Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] there had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , after the Jacobite Wars there had been a gradual but continuing improvement of the main roads in Britain . |
| 2 | The concept of a separation of science from religion during the seventeenth century implies that during preceding centuries there had been a fusion . |
| 3 | Throughout the nineteenth century in most industrialised nations there had been a growing need for governments to obtain reliable knowledge about the state of their societies . |
| 4 | In their personal lives there had been parallels that had drawn them close and formed a bond between them ; not least the loss of both their wives some ten years back . |
| 5 | She had spent most of her own childhood trying to persuade her parents to fall in love with each other and known how little they really cared for each other or for her , but until recently she had not realised how little real love there had been in her own marriage . |
| 6 | In early September there had been allegations by Catholic bishops in the south that government soldiers in Juba were burning homes , killing suspected SPLA sympathizers , mining roads out of the town and using civilians as human shields . |
| 7 | In the previous parliament there had been 8 Official Ulster Unionists who had accepted the Conservative whip and considered themselves part of his party . |
| 8 | Up to the previous evening there had been questions bandied back and forth between Aggie and Ben as to whether , after all , it would be necessary for Millie to take the post she had been offered . |
| 9 | Even the previous November there had been isolated rumours that he had suffered a nervous breakdown . |
| 10 | During the previous weeks there had been fine weather , and after a day in the office Paul would keep his mother company in the evenings for a little while , then , as they had nothing to say to one another , he would tell her he was going out for a breath of air . |
| 11 | In previous days there had been violent clashes between students and police , which left 47 people wounded in Bamako , and there were reports of similar incidents in Gao , Sevare and Mopti . |
| 12 | On the previous day there had been rallies in many parts of the Russian Federation in support of Yeltsin ( who was under threat of a no confidence vote in the Russian Congress of People 's Deputies as a result of an attack on Gorbachev in February — see p. 38013 ) , and in opposition to Gorbachev and the Union Treaty . |
| 13 | Her threat to leave the job had been an idle one , and whatever ill feeling there had been between her and Jenny must have been papered over . |
| 14 | At that time it was officially known as the ‘ Poor Law Institution ’ , although the sick wards there had been distinguished as St. Peter 's Hospital for some years . |
| 15 | While they had been there the previous year there had been hardly any visitors . |
| 16 | On the Long Drive there had been a whole truck for them . |
| 17 | In this revised and comforting version there had been a second of delay , no more , and then he had raced for the house shouting for help . |
| 18 | After the Elizabethan conquest there had been the usual influx of people wanting land , but the landlords of the traditional type had been supplemented by London-based land-holding companies and also by peasant emigrants from Scotland . |
| 19 | For a long time there had been no one else for him because he refused to compromise . |
| 20 | For a long time there had been a struggle for supremacy between the established church , the Quakers , the Catholics and the Congregationalists . |
| 21 | In this rural area there had been no fewer than nineteen peasant uprisings in 1919 . |
| 22 | Throughout the inter-war period there had been no effective plan , merely Unwin 's work and sporadic activity in the preparation of statutory planning schemes by the London boroughs . |
| 23 | But in terms of Defence and Overseas policy there had been a price to pay for these successes . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It seems that whatever Saxon settlement there had been was so devastated during the Norman advance of 1070 that it was still uninhabited at the time of the survey in 1086 . |
| 26 | Sgt Ian Martin of Darlington police said that in previous years when BST started at 2am Greenwich mean time there had been no need to check clubs closed down on time . |
| 27 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 28 | Perhaps the development of most interest to us in 1854 was that on an American initiative there had been an international conference at Brussels on shortening ship 's passages by producing better charts of winds and currents . |
| 29 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 30 | In recent months there had been numerous incidents , in Armenia and the disputed Nagorny Karabakh enclave within Armenia , in which Armenian militants ambushed troops and raided police stations to capture weapons [ for worst such incident , in Yerevan in May , see p. 37462 ] . |